[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8211-8212]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-2548]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP01-68-000]


Indiana Gas Company, Inc.; Notice of Application

January 24, 2001.
    On January 19, 2001, Indiana Gas Company, Inc. (Indiana Gas), 1630 
North Meridian Street, P.O. Box 44945, Indianapolis, Indiana 46244-
0945, filed in Docket No. CP01-68-000 an application pursuant to 
Section 7(f) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to expand its service area 
determination in Jefferson and Oldham Counties, Kentucky to include an 
area two miles north and one-half mile south of the existing area, all 
as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection. The filing may be viewed at 
http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance).
    Indiana Gas states that the expanded service area will give Indiana 
Gas the flexibility needed to purchase the right-of-way associated with 
a new 12.6-mile pipeline in the two counties to be used to provide 
reliable natural gas service to existing and future retail residential, 
commercial and industrial customers in the Greater Louisville 
Metropolitan Area, in particular Clark and Floyd Counties, Indiana. 
Indiana Gas indicates that, although the needed construction could 
occur within the existing right-of-way, such an approach would 
adversely affect landowners because of the significant residential 
development along the existing facilities subsequent to their 
construction in 1952.
    In addition to the request to expand the Section 7(f) service area 
determination, Indiana Gas also requests (1) a finding that Indiana Gas 
qualifies as a local distribution company for purposes of Section 311 
of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA), and (2)

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a waiver of the Commission's accounting and reporting requirements and 
other regulatory requirements ordinarily applicable to natural gas 
companies under the Natural Gas Act and the NGPA. Indiana Gas also 
requests that the Commission clarify that its service area 
determination also includes Jefferson County, Kentucky.
    Questions regarding the details of this proposed project should be 
directed to John E. Fansher, Manager, Land Department, at (317) 301-
0598, or in writing to his attention at the above address.
    There are two ways to become involved in the Commission's review of 
this project. First, any person wishing to obtain legal status by 
becoming a party to the proceedings for this project should, on or 
before February 14, 2001, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, a motion to 
intervene in accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules 
of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the 
Regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 
status will be placed on the service list maintained by the Secretary 
of the Commission and will receive copies of all documents filed by the 
applicant and by all other parties. A party must submit 14 copies of 
filings made with the Commission and must mail a copy to the applicant 
and to every other party in the proceeding. Only parties to the 
proceeding can ask for court review of Commission orders in the 
proceeding.
    However, a person does not have to intervene in order to have 
comments considered. The second way to participate is by filing with 
the Secretary of the Commission, as soon as possible, an original and 
two copies of comments in support of or in opposition to this project. 
The Commission will consider these comments in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but the filing of a comment alone will 
not serve to make the filer a party to the proceeding. The Commission's 
rules require that persons filing comments in opposition to the project 
provide copies of their protests only to the party or parties directly 
involved in the protest.
    Non-party 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 court review of the Commission's final order.
    Comments and protests may be filed electronically via the internet 
in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 
on the Commission's web site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.
    If the Commission decides to set the application for a formal 
hearing before an Administrative Law Judge, the Commission will issue 
another notice describing that process. At the end of the Commission's 
review process, a final Commission order approving or denying a 
certificate will be issued.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-2548 Filed 1-29-01; 8:45 am]
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