[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 25 (Thursday, February 6, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6132-6134]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-2874]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP03-41-000 and CP03-43-000]


Dominion Transmission, Inc.; Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 
Notice of Filings

January 30, 2003.
    Take notice that on January 24, 2003, Dominion Transmission, Inc. 
(Dominion), Docket No. CP03-41-000, 445 West Main Street, Clarksburg, 
West Virginia 26301; and Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas 
Eastern), Docket No. CP03-43-000, 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310, filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 
(Commission) abbreviated applications for certificate of public 
convenience and necessity pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act 
and part 157 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations. Dominion 
requests authorization to lease, construct, own, operate, and maintain 
certain facilities in Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia; and to 
provide certain firm transportation and storage services. Texas Eastern 
requests authorization to construct, own, operate and maintain

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proposed facilities that will increase the firm transportation capacity 
on Texas Eastern's system by 223,000 dekatherms per day (Dth/d), and 
lease this incremental capacity to Dominion. The applications are on 
file with the Commission and open for public inspection. These filings 
are available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room 
or may be viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov 
using the ``FERRIS'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last 
three digits in the docket number field to access the document. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or toll free at (866)208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659.

Dominion

    Dominion requests authority to lease capacity of 223,000 Dth/d of 
firm transportation service from Texas Eastern on CRP pipeline system 
located in Pennsylvania, and 5.6 Bcf of firm storage service. In 
addition, Dominion proposes to construct and place in service the 
following compressor station additions, and new compressor stations:
    [sbull] At a new compressor station, Mockingbird Hill, located in 
Wetzel County, West Virginia: installing a 5,000 hp gas-fired turbine;
    [sbull] At the existing Crayne station, located in Green County, 
Pennsylvania: replacing the existing 1 unit, a 5,500 hp gas-
fired turbine, with a 7,800 hp gas-fired turbine, and the existing 
2 unit would be reconfigured from a 6,500 hp gas-fired turbine 
to a 7,800 hp gas-fired turbine;
    [sbull] At the existing Chambersburg station, located in Franklin 
County, Pennsylvania: upgrading the 2 existing electric powered units 
from 4,000 hp to 4,600 hp, and installing 2 new 7,800 hp gas-fired 
turbines;
    [sbull] At the existing Leesburg station, located in Loudoun 
County, Virginia: installing an additional 7,800 hp gas-fired turbine;
    [sbull] At a new compressor station, Quantico station, located in 
Fauquier County, Virginia: installing a 6,000 hp gas-fired turbine; and
    [sbull] Also installing non-jurisdictional facilities as associated 
appurtenant facilities with each compressor installation and conducting 
non-jurisdictional work associated with abandoned oil wells at its 
Fink-Kennedy/Lost Creek Storage Reservoir to insure the integrity of 
the reservoir.
    The estimated cost of the proposed project is $83.0 million. 
Dominion will pay Texas Eastern a monthly Lease Payment of $1,085,341 
for the leased capacity. Dominion proposes incrementally priced 
transportation services at rates that are designed to recover the costs 
of both Dominion's incremental transmission facilities and the capacity 
that is to be leased from Texas Eastern.
    Dominion proposes to roll in the storage service costs at its next 
general Section 4 rate case, since incremental cost-based storage rates 
would be less than the existing storage rates. In addition to the 
transportation rate, a reservation-based compression charge is being 
proposed in order to recover the cost of the new Quantico compressor 
station.

Texas Eastern

    In order to provide the 223,000 Dth/d of lease capacity to 
Dominion, Texas Eastern requests authorization to construct, install, 
own, operate, and maintain four new 36-inch diameter pipeline loops 
totaling approximately 34.64 miles. Texas Eastern proposes to replace 
certain segments of the existing 24-inch diameter pipeline, which is 
currently abandoned in place, with new 36-inch diameter pipeline. The 
new 36-inch diameter sections of pipeline looping will be constructed 
in the same location as the currently existing abandoned 24-inch 
diameter pipeline looping. Texas Eastern will remove the existing pipe 
and relay the 36-inch diameter pipe in the same right-of-way. In 
addition, Texas Eastern proposes to replace the existing aerodynamic 
assembly on the 11,000 HP electric drive compressor unit at the 
Uniontown (Station 21-A) Compressor station in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, 
to accommodate the increased throughput. The estimated cost of the 
proposed project is $82.855 million. This cost will be fully reimbursed 
by Dominion under the Lease Agreement with no subsidization by Texas 
Eastern's existing customers.
    Any questions regarding the applications are to be directed to Sean 
R. Sleigh, Certificates Manager, Dominion Transmission, Inc., 445 West 
Main Street, Clarksburg, WV 26301, or Steven E. Tillman, General 
Manager, Regulatory Affairs, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP, P.O. Box 
1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642.
    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 the below listed comment date, 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.
    Persons who wish to comment only on the environmental review of 
this project should submit an original and two copies of their comments 
to the Secretary of the Commission. Environmental commenters will be 
placed on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive 
copies of the environmental documents, and will be notified of meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Environmental commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed 
documents on all other parties. However, the non-party commenters will 
not receive copies of all documents filed by other parties or issued by 
the Commission (except for the mailing of environmental documents 
issued by the Commission) and will not have the right to seek court 
review of the Commission's final order.
    The Commission may issue a preliminary determination on non-
environmental issues prior to the completion of its review of the 
environmental aspects of the project. This preliminary determination 
typically considers such issues as the need for the project and its 
economic effect on existing customers of the applicant, on other 
pipelines in the area, and on landowners and communities. For example, 
the Commission considers

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the extent to which the applicant may need to exercise eminent domain 
to obtain rights-of-way for the proposed project and balances that 
against the non-environmental benefits to be provided by the project. 
Therefore, if a person has comments on community and landowner impacts 
from this proposal, it is important either to file comments or to 
intervene as early in the process as possible.
    Motions to intervene, protests and comments 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 
under the ``e-Filing'' link. The Commission strongly encourages 
electronic filings.
    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. Comment Date: February 20, 2003.

Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 03-2874 Filed 2-5-03; 8:45 am]
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