[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 1 (Friday, January 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62-63]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-34175]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-149-000]
El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application
December 24, 1997.
Take notice that on December 19, 1997, El Paso Natural Gas Company
(El Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket
No. CP98-149-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural
Gas Act for a certificate of public convience and necessity to
construct and operate the Bondad Expansion Project to alleviate a
capacity constraint on El Paso's system north of the Blanco plant in
San Juan County, New Mexico, all as more fully set forth in the
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
El Paso states that it proposes to construct and operate additional
compression facilities, with appurtenances, at the existing Bondad
compressor station located on the Ignacio to Blanco Line and Loop Line
(Line Nos. 1205 and 1218, respectively) (Ignacio Lines), in La Plata
County, Colorado, in order to restage the three existing Solar Centaur
centrifugal compressor units and to replace each of the three gas
turbine engines comprising
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10,740 (ISO) horsepower with three gas turbine engines comprising
15,900 (ISO) horsepower.
El Paso contends that the Bondad Expansion Project has been
designed to permit El Paso to transport 116,500 Mcf per day of
additional quantities of gas from receipt points along the Ignacio
Lines to an existing point near the existing Blanco plant located in
San Juan County, New Mexico.
El Paso estimates the cost of constructing the Bondad Expansion
Project to be $3.6 million. El Paso proposes to place the proposed
facilities in service by October 1, 1998.
It is stated that based on the cost of the proposed compression
facilities, El Paso has calculated a separate incremental rate
attributable to the cost of service for the proposed Bondad Expansion
Project. It is stated that the incremental reservation rate for the
proposed project, which is referred to as the Bondad Facilities
Reservation Charge, is $0.67734 per dth, on a monthly basis. El Paso
proposes the calculated incremental rate (the recourse rate) as the
tariff rate applicable to firm transportation service on the Bondad
Expansion Project.
In addition, it is stated that El Paso has calculated a separate
incremental fuel charge, referred to as the Bondad Facilities Fuel
Charge, in which shippers receiving firm service on the Bondad
Expansion Project will be assessed a proposed incremental fuel charge
of 0.75 percent of quantities of gas transported.
El Paso states that in support of the Bondad Expansion Project, it
has entered into final, firm Transportation Service Agreements (TSAs)
with Enron Capital & Trade Resources Corp., Elm Ridge Resources, Inc.
and Conoco, Inc., for the transportation of an additional 116,500 mcf
per day of gas from any point of receipt on the Bondad System,
including the Ignacio Receipt Point, to the Blanco Delivery Pont.
El Paso states that the executed firm TSAs applicable at the Bondad
Expansion Project are subject to the provisions of Rate Schedule FT-1
contained in El Paso's Volume No. 1-A, FERC Gas Tariff; however,
pursuant to Section 4.5 of the Tariff, the executed TSAs each contain a
separate negotiated rate, rather than the proposed tariff rate,
applicable to the Bondad Expansion Project. El Paso further states that
the rate negotiated with each of the three shippers on the Project is a
Total Daily One-Part Rate per dth.
Any person desiring to participate in the hearing process or to
make any protest with reference to said application should on or before
January 14, 1998, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Washington, D.C. 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
Natural Gas Act (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. The Commission's rules require that protestors provide
copies of their protests or the party or parties directly involved. 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.
A person obtaining intervene 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 every one 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 other 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 to 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act 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 the Commission on its own review of the matter
finds that a grant of the certificate 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 El Paso to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-34175 Filed 12-31-97; 8:45 am]
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