[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 55466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26648]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-625-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
October 6, 1999.
Take notice that on September 27, 1999, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), Post Office Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia
25325-1273 in Docket No. CP99-625-000 an application, as supplemented
on September 28, 1999, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act
to permit Columbia to use firm capacity on Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Company (Tennessee), all as more fully set forth in the application
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
This filing may be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.us/online/
rims.htm (call 202-208-2222).
Columbia proposes to use firm capacity on Tennessee of up to 16,476
dt per day from Broad Run, Kanawha County, West Virginia, to Highland,
Elk County, Pennsylvania, for a period beginning October 1, 1999, and
ending March 31, 2000. Columbia indicates that, as a result of
corrosion revealed by recently completed and analyzed in-line
inspection of two line segments on Columbia's system in Clinton and
McKean Counties, Pennsylvania, Columbia has elected to remove the two
pipelines from service prior to October 1, 1999. To find an alternate
means of maintaining capacity to serve its contractual obligations
during the 1999-2000 winter heating season, Columbia indicates that it
has arranged to use capacity on Tennessee's system. Columbia indicates
that, because it needs to maintain normal operating pressures on those
pipelines to meet its service obligations, it cannot reduce its line
pressure on those facilities as a long term option. Columbia also
states that it has not had sufficient time to complete the analysis of
the two pipelines to determine if the pipelines or segments of the
pipelines may have to be replaced or abandoned.
Columbia states that no construction of facilities is required to
implement the transaction. It is stated that the total cost of the
transaction will be between $600,000 and $650,000, which will be
accounted for pursuant to the provisions of its tariff concerning
Transportation Cost Recovery Adjustment Filings.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before October 27, 1999,
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. 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.
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 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 and permission for abandonment
are 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-26648 Filed 10-12-99; 8:45 am]
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