[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 233 (Monday, December 4, 2000)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP01-36-000]


Zia Natural Gas Company, An Operating Division of Natural Gas 
Processing Company, Complainant, v. Raton Gas Transmission Company, 
Respondent; Notice of Complaint

November 28, 2000.
    Take notice that on November 22, 2000, pursuant to Rule 206 of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.206), Zia 
Natural Gas Company, an Operating Division of Natural Gas Processing 
Company (Zia), filed a Section 5 complaint against Raton Gas 
Transmission Company (RGT), requesting the Commission to find that 
certain actions taken by RGT, as well as certain aspects of RGT's 
tariff, violate the Natural Gas Act. To redress these violations, Zia 
requests that the Commission direct RGT to convert its current Part 157 
certificate to a Part 284 blanket certificate, and to implement other 
appropriate revisions to the RGT tariff.
    Specifically, Zia asserts that RGT has commenced providing service 
that is not authorized pursuant to RGT's case-specific, Section 7(c) 
certificate and that threatens to degrade the certificated service 
received from RGT by Zia. In addition, Zia maintains that changing 
competitive circumstances have rendered RGT's tariff unjust and 
unreasonable in a number of respects. Zia requests that the Commission 
order RGT to (1) convert RGT's current Part 157 transportation service 
to Part 284, open access transportation service, (2) afford Zia its 
rights as a converting Part 157 shipper, including the right to acquire 
upstream transportation and storage capacity currently held by RGT, (3) 
modify RGT's tariff rate structure to remove the automatic passthrough 
of costs associated with upstream capacity held by RGT on the Colorado 
Interstate Gas Company Docket No. CP01-36-000 (CIG) system, and (4) 
modify RGT's tariff, which currently lists no receipt points,to 
explicitly designate the Trinidad, Colorado interconnection between RGT 
and CIG as a receipt point on the RGT system.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this filing should 
file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in 
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). All such motions or 
protests must be filed on or before December 8, 2000. Protests will be 
considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to 
be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the 
proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a motion to 
intervene. Copies of this filing are on file with the Commission and 
are available for public inspection in the Public Reference room. This 
filing may also be viewed on the Internet at 
http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222) for 
assistance. Answers to the complaint shall also be due on or before 
December 8, 2000.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-30731 Filed 12-1-00; 8:45 am]
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