[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 157 (Monday, August 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49557-49558]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20484]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-425-00]


Dominion Transmission, Inc. (formerly CNG Transmission Corp.); 
Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

August 8, 2000.
    Take notice that on August 1, 2000, Dominion Transmission, Inc. 
(DTI), formerly CNG Transmission Corporation, 445 West Main Street, 
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, filed in Docket No. CP00-425-000 a 
request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.208 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.208) for 
authorization to uprate the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) 
of twenty-eight (28) natural gas storage pipelines at the Oakland 
Storage Complex, located in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, under 
DTI's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-537-000, pursuant 
to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in 
the request that is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection. This filing may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    DTI proposes to uprate the MAOP of twenty-eight (28) natural gas 
storage pipelines in the southern portion of the Murrysville Storage 
Pool of the Oakland Storage Complex, located in Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania. DTI states that the pipelines they propose to uprate are 
currently used to withdraw gas from the southern portion of the 
Murrysville Storage Pool for either recycling of gas to the higher 
pressure northern portion of the Murraysville Storage Pool or for 
delivery to DTI's customers or DTI's partner at the Oakland Storage 
Complex, Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation.
    DTI proposes to uprate this segment of the system in order to 
prevent the pipeline system from exceeding the certificated MAOP in the 
event of the South Oakford Station going off line. DTI declares that it 
has employed a temporary solution to this situation by requiring field 
personnel to shut down in a portion of the storage pipeline

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system if South Oakford Station shuts down. DTI states that a permanent 
solution to this situation is to uprate certain of the storage 
pipelines in the southern portion of the Murrysville Storage Pool to 
225 psig, which is a higher MAOP than that portion will achieve.
    DTI notes that the pipelines would be uprated using US Department 
of Transportation regulations, guidelines, and procedures and 
additionally the uprating of these storage pipelines will have no 
effect on the design capacity of the Oakford Storage Complex or on the 
design capacity of the DTI system.
    DTI states that no new facilities are required, consequently, there 
is no cost to DTI, or its customers, associated with increasing the 
certificated MAOP of these storage pipelines to 225 psig.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to Sean 
R. Sleigh, Manager, Dominion Transmission, Inc., 445 West Main Street, 
Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, phone: (304) 623-8462, fax: (304) 623-
8305.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and, pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205), a protest 
to the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed 
therefor, the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized 
effective the day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a 
protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time 
allowed for filing a protest, the instant request shall be treated as 
an application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural 
Gas Act.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-20484 Filed 8-11-00; 8:45 am]
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