[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 149 (Wednesday, August 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 42355-42356]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20000]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-592-000]


Southwest Gas Transmission Company, A Limited Partnership; 
Application

July 29, 1999.
    Take notice that on July 22, 1999, Southwest Gas Transmission 
Company, A Limited Partnership (SGTC), P.O. Box 98510, Las Vegas, 
Nevada 89193-8510, filed, in Docket No. CP99-592-000, an application 
pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 
of the Commission's Regulations for an order permitting and approving 
the abandonment of facilities and services and for a certificate of 
public convenience and necessity to construct and operate facilities 
and to transport gas so as to enable SGTC to interconnect with 
Transwestern Pipeline Company (Transwestern), all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection. The application may be viewed on the web at 
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222 for assistance).
    Specifically, SGTC proposes to establish a new upstream pipeline 
interconnection with Transwestern in order to increase competitive 
options for upstream gas supplies and transportation in the Southern 
Nevada market.\1\ In order to accomplish this, SGTC seeks to: (1) 
Construct and operate metering facilities to interconnect SGTC's system 
and Transwestern's, (2) construct and operate metering facilities at 
the existing interconnection between SGTC's system and the system of El 
Paso Natural Gas Company (El Paso), (3) abandon transportation service 
for El Paso and the existing Fort Mohave Meter Station (located at the 
downstream terminus of SGTC's system) that was used to measure volumes 
delivered by El Paso, (4) assign El Paso's transportation service 
rights on SGTC to Southwest Gas Corporation (Southwest), (5) transport 
gas Southwest under Section 7(c), and (6) any necessary waivers of the 
Commission's regulations. In essence, these authorizations would change 
the shipper on SGTC's system from the upstream supplier (El Paso) to 
the downstream distributor (Southwest). According to SGTC, the 
reassignment of capacity rights from El Paso to Southwest would 
continue to permit transportation on SGTC's system for shippers with 
transportation rights on the upstream pipelines.
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    \1\ SGTC's entire system is located in Mohave County, Arizona.
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    The estimated cost of the proposed facilities is $1,376,000. The 
cost to abandon the existing meter facility is estimated to be $23,000. 
SGTC states that it will receive a contribution from Transwestern in 
aid of construction of the proposed facilities and will finance the 
remainder of the costs through financing programs and internally 
generated funds.
    Any questions regarding this application should be directed to 
Edward C. McMurtrie at (702) 876-7109, Southwest Gas Corporation, P.O. 
Box 98510, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-8510.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before August 19, 1999, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in 
accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) and the regulations under 
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Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). All protests filed with the Commission 
will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be 
taken but will not serve to make the protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party in any proceeding 
herein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's rules.
    A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service 
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive 
copies of all documents issued by the Commission, filed by the 
applicant, or filed by all other intevenors. An intervenor can file for 
rehearing of any Commission order and can petition for court review of 
any such order. However, an intervenor must serve copies of comments or 
any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other intervenor 
in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 14 copies with the 
Commission.
    A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have 
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of such 
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Comments will be placed on 
the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of 
environmental documents, and will be able to participate in meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on 
all other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all 
documents filed by other parties or issued by the Commission, and will 
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final 
order to a Federal court.
    The Commission will consider all comments and concerns equally, 
whether filed by commenters or those requesting intervenor status.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Commission by 
Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held without further notice 
before the Commission or its designee on this application if no motion 
to intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the 
Commission on its own review of the matter finds that permission and 
approval for the proposed abandonment is required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely 
filed, or if the Commission on its own motion believes that formal 
hearing is required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for SGTC to appear or to be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc 99-20000 Filed 8-23-99; 8:45 am]
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