[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 97 (Thursday, May 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28972-28973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12297]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP11-303-000]


Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

    Take notice that on April 28, 2011, Eastern Shore Natural Gas 
Company (Eastern Shore), 1110 Forrest Avenue, Dover, Delaware, 19904, 
pursuant to its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP96-128-
000,\1\ filed an application in accordance to sections 157.205(b), 
157.208(c), and 157.210 of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA) as amended, for the construction, ownership, and 
operation of new mainline facilities and a new delivery point 
measurement and regulating station from Glasgow, Delaware to Elkton, 
Maryland, all as more fully set forth in the application, which is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
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    \1\ 81 FERC ] 61,013 (1997).
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    In order to provide additional firm natural gas transportation 
service to Chesapeake Utilities Corporation--Maryland Division 
(Chesapeake), Eastern Shore proposes to construct, own, operate, and 
maintain about 5 miles of new six-inch steel pipeline running westward 
from Route 40 in Glasgow, Delaware to Elkton, Maryland, and install a 
new delivery point measurement and regulating station near the 
intersection of US 40 and Maryland 279 in Elkton, Maryland. Eastern 
Shore has entered into a binding Precedent Agreement with Chesapeake in 
which Chesapeake has agreed to execute a fifteen-year FT Service 
Agreement with Eastern Shore to provide additional natural gas 
transportation service of 4,070 dts/day under Eastern Shore's maximum 
FT Zone One Tariff Rate on file with the Commission. Eastern Shore will 
recover its project costs entirely from Chesapeake, with no subsidy 
from Eastern Shore's other firm service customers. The total estimate 
cost of the proposed facilities is $5,850,450. Eastern Shore proposes 
the facilities to be completed and placed into service by November 1, 
2011.
    Any questions concerning this application may be directed to Glen 
DiEleuterio, Project Manager, at (302) 734-6710, ext. 6723 or via fax 
(302) 734-6745, or e-mail at [email protected].
    This filing is available for review at the Commission or may be 
viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three 
digits in the docket number filed to access the document. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERC 
[email protected] or call toll-free at (866)206-3676, or, for TTY, 
contact (202)502-8659. Comments, protests and interventions may be 
filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18

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CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web 
site under the ``e-Filing'' link. The Commission strongly encourages 
intervenors to file electronically.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 60 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefore, 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 allowed time for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to section 7 of the NGA.

    Dated: May 12, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-12297 Filed 5-18-11; 8:45 am]
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