[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 53 (Monday, March 19, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15414-15415]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6717]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP01-97-000]


Nornew Energy Supply, Inc. and Norse Pipeline, L.L.C.; Notice of 
Application

March 13, 2001.
    Take notice that on March 1, 2001, as supplemented on March 9, 
2001, Nornew Energy Supply, Inc. (Nornew), 19 Ivy Street, Jamestown, 
New York 14701 and Norse Pipeline, L.L.C. (Norse), 2500 Tanglewilde, 
Suite 250, Houston, Texas 77063, filed in Docket No. CP01-97-000 an 
abbreviated application pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA) and the Commission's Rules and Regulations for a limited term 
certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Nornew and 
Norse to deliver gas to the City of Jamestown Board of Public Utilities 
(Jamestown BPU) to its repowered Samuel A. Carlson Generating Station 
(Carlson Generating Station), located in Jamestown, New York, and for 
Nornew to construct and operate a four-inch tap within the Carlson 
Generating Station's existing plant yard for a limited period beginning 
March 30, 2001 and ending once the Commission issues a permanent 
certificate of public convenience and necessity to Nornew, in order to 
provide natural gas to fuel the Carlson Generating Station to permit 
testing of the new gas-powered turbine and provide Jamestown BPU's 
customers with electric services, 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.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    Norse and Nornew's request for a limited-term certificate is a 
result of the Commission's previous orders that ruled that Nornew's 
eight-inch, 7.63 mile pipeline that was constructed to serve the 
Jamestown BPU as well as some or all of Norse's facilities would be 
jurisdictional facilities requiring an NGA Section 7(c) certificate.\1\ 
Norse will deliver to Nornew, at an existing interconnection in 
Mayville, New York, gas produced from wells connected to Norse's 
system. Nornew will deliver such gas to its only customer, the 
Jamestown BPU. According to Nornew, the Carlson Generating Station is 
currently coal-fired, but the Jamestown BPU is in the process of 
upgrading its equipment to provide flexibility in fuel supply and to 
improve environmental quality by displacing coal with cleaner burning 
natural gas. Nornew anticipates that it would transport approximately 
3,000 Mcf/d during the testing of the new turbine. Nornew states that 
the cost of the tap is $160,000 plus $25,000 for installation. 
Additionally, Nornew states that the facilities will be financed 
through Nornew's credit facility.
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    \1\ National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation, 93 FERC para. 
61,276 (2000), reh'g denied, 94 FERC para. 61,136 (2001).
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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application on or before March 21, 2001, file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance 
with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and 
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the NGA 
(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 to a proceeding or to participate as a 
party in any hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in 
accordance with the Commission's Rules. Any questions regarding the 
application should be directed to Oivind Risberg, President, Nornew 
Energy Supply, Inc., 2500 Tanglewilde, Suite 250, Houston, Texas 77603, 
telephone (713) 975-1900.
    Comments, protests, and interventions 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.
    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 filed by the applicant and by everyone of the 
intervenors. An intervenor can file for rehearing of any Commission 
order and can petition for court review of any such order. However, an 
intervenor must submit copies of comments or any filing it makes with 
the Commission to every other intervenor in the proceeding, as well as 
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 
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Commenters 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 at 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 Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA 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

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the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that the proposal 
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 a 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 Norse and Nornew to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-6717 Filed 3-16-01; 8:45 am]
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