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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY#
[Docket No. CP94-799-000, et al.]
Texas Gas Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas
Certificate Filings
October 7, 1994.
Take notice that the following filings have been made with the
Commission:
1. Texas Gas Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP94-799-000]
Take notice that on September 23, 1994, Texas Gas Transmission
Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro, Kentucky
42301, filed in Docket No. CP94-799-000 a request pursuant to
Secs. 157.205 and 157.212 of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act
for authorization to add a new delivery point to serve Mississippi
Valley Gas Company (MVG) under the certificate issued in Docket No.
CP82-407-000, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more
fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to
public inspection.
Texas Gas states that the proposed delivery point will be located
on Texas Gas' main line system near the DeSoto/Tunica County line in
Mississippi. Texas Gas indicates that the new delivery point will
enable MVG to provide natural gas service to new residential
developments in DeSoto County, Mississippi. According to Texas Gas, the
service to MVG through the proposed delivery point can be accomplished
without detriment to Texas Gas' other customers.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
2. National Fuel Gas Supply Corp.
[Docket No. CP95-1-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, National Fuel Gas Supply
Corporation (National), 10 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York, 14203,
filed in Docket No. CP95-1-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and
157.212 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18
CFR 157.205, 157.212) for authorization to construct and operate a
delivery tap to National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation
(Distribution) under National's blanket certificate issued in Docket
No. CP83-4-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as
more fully set forth in the request that is on file with the Commission
and open to public inspection.
National proposes to construct and operate a delivery tap to
Distribution in Elk County, Pennsylvania at a cost of $10,000, to be
reimbursed by Distribution. It is stated that 46,000 Mcf per year would
be delivered at this point.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
3. Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP95-2-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642,
Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket No. CP95-2-000 a request
pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations
under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for authorization
to construct and operate a delivery point in Philadelphia County
Pennsylvania under Texas Eastern's blanket certificate issued in Docket
No. CP82-535-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as
more fully set forth in the request that is on file with the Commission
and open to public inspection.
Texas Eastern proposes to construct and operate an 8-inch tap, a
dual 8-inch meter run, and the electronic gas measurement equipment to
be located on Texas Eastern's 14-inch line No. 1-A at approximately
M.P. 11.8 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. Texas Eastern states
that the installation of the delivery point will have no effect on
Texas Eastern's peak day or annual deliveries.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
4. NorAm Gas Transmission Co.
[Docket No. CP95-3-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission Company
(NorAm), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No.
CP95-3-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205, 157.211, 157.212, and
157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18
CFR 157.205, 157.211, 157.212, and 157.216) for authorization to
replace and relocate certain facilities on its Line KM-36 in Union
Parish, Louisiana to better accommodate its existing delivery
obligations to Arkla, under NorAm's blanket certificate issued in
Docket No. CP82-384-000 and CP82-384-001 pursuant to Section 7 of the
Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is on
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Specifically NorAm proposes to abandon a 1-inch tap and 1-inch
meter station and regulator on Line KM-36 in Union Parish, Louisiana.
NorAm proposes to relocate and construct a 2-inch tap, 2-inch meter
station and regulator to assure reliable regulation of gas and reduce
pipeline operating pressure for service by Arkla to Arkla's Marion
Townborder Station. NorAm states that it will continue to deliver
approximately 29,000 MMBtu annually and 408 MMBtu per day on a peak day
to Arkla. It is further stated that the proposed relocation of the
existing delivery tap approximately 636 feet will make it more
assessable.
NorAm estimates that the cost of the construction and relocation
will be approximately $35,566.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
4. NorAm Gas Transmission Co.
[Docket No. CP95-5-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission Company
(NGT), formerly Arkla Energy Resources Company, 1600 Smith Street,
Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. CP95-5-000 a request pursuant
to Secs. 157.205, 157.216 and Secs. 157.211, 157.212 of the
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,
157.216) for authorization to abandon certain facilities in Louisiana,
and to construct and operate certain facilities in Louisiana, under
NGT's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-384-000, et al.,
pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set
forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and open to
public inspection.
NGT proposes to: (1) abandon nine 1-inch domestic taps located on
NGT's Lines S and ST-8 in Louisiana, originally installed to deliver
gas to rural domestic customers served by ARKLA, a division of NorAm
Energy Corp. (``ARKLA''); and, (2) to relocate one tap on Line S at
ARKLA's request. The estimated cost to relocate the tap on Line S is
$353, and NGT will be reimbursed by ARKLA.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
5. Questar Pipeline Co.
[Docket No. CP95-7-000]
Take notice that on October 5, 1994, Questar Pipeline Company
(Questar), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in
Docket No. CP95-7-000 an application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 7(c)
of the Natural Gas Act requesting authority to construct and operate
new delivery point metering facilities, requesting an order for
permission and approval to abandon by sale certain transmission and
associated facilities and to abandon by removal certain metering
facilities, and submitting a petition for a declaratory order finding
that the facilities to be abandoned by sale will be exempt from
Commission jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act, all
as more fully set forth in the application and petition which is on
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Questar requests authority to undertake a number of adjustments and
activities on its system which, collectively, will respond to operating
changes on its system which have taken place in the past few years. The
proposals give recognition to operating and functional realities on
certain segments of the Questar system.
Specifically, Questar proposes to construct and operate a new city-
gate delivery point (the Little Mountain Gate Station) within the
confines of its existing Little Mountain Pressure Regulating Station.
The facilities are to be comprised of 6 12-inch turbine meter runs, six
20-inch and 24-inch valves, 100 feet of 20-inch and 24-inch yard and
station piping, and telecommunications and appurtenant facilities. The
new gate station is designed so that current operation and delivery
service to Questar's local distribution company affiliate, Mountain
Fuel Supply Company (Mountain Fuel) is unchanged. Questar states that
the proposed facilities will permit it to consolidate metering,
custody-transfer and pressure-regulating functions presently provided
at the Little Mountain Pressure Regulating Station and the Sunnyside
Gas Station (Sunnyside). It is indicated that Sunnyside currently
serves as one of Questar's city-gate custody-transfer points to
Mountain Fuel which serves the Wasatch Front area of northern Utah.
Questar asserts that the consolidation of metering, regulating, and
operational control activities at Little Mountain will streamline
operations on this segment of Questar's transmission system.
In conjunction with establishing the Little Mountain Station,
Questar proposes to abandon by sale to Mountain Fuel (a) approximately
5.9 miles (31,175 feet) of its existing 24-inch transmission Main Line
No. 2 and approximately 5.9 miles (31,275 feet) of its existing 20-inch
transmission Main Line No. 14, (b) non-measurement-related facilities
located at Sunnyside, (c) four intermediate delivery points located
between Little Mountain and Sunnyside and (d) related piping, metering
and regulating facilities. In addition, Questar proposes to abandon by
removal, valves, metering, regulating and telemetry equipment, and
appurtenant piping located at Sunnyside. Questar asserts that the
abandonment by sale is appropriate because, due to rapidly increasing
residential development in the Emigration Canyon (where the facilities
to be abandoned are located), the subject facilities now function more
like an extension of Mountain Fuel's distribution system than an
Questar Pipeline's transmission system. Once Questar installs the
Little Mountain Gate Station, the equipment proposed to be removed at
Sunnyside will no longer be necessary.
To consummate and complete the contemplated transfer to Mountain
Fuel, Questar requests a declaratory order finding that the facilities
to be sold to and operated by Mountain Fuel, upon transfer and sale,
will be local distribution facilities and operations exempt from the
Commission's jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act.
Questar states that the vase majority of the subject facilities are now
surrounded by residential housing and that the three delivery taps
downstream of the Little Mountain station are required by Mountain Fuel
to provide exclusively local distribution service to residential end-
use customers. In addition, because of the residential expansion in the
area, Questar has reduced pipeline operating pressures in the vicinity
such that the referenced sections of Main Lines 2 and 14 should be
viewed as performing a local distribution function.
Questar states that the total gross plant investment associated
with the facilities proposed to be abandoned (both by sale and removal)
is $1,735,822 with the book value being $1,025,157. The book value of
the facilities to be transferred to Mountain Fuel is $864,069. The cost
of the metering facilities proposed to be constructed in approximately
$671,000, which would be financed from company funds on hand.
Questar does not propose to modify any level of transportation
service provided to Mountain Fuel or any other customer. Nor does
Questar propose any change in its authorized rates.
Comment date: October 28, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.
Standard Paragraphs
F. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before the comment date,
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/or permission and approval
for the proposed 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 applicant to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
G. Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 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 Sec. 157.205 of the
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 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 time allowed for filing a
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-25614 Filed 10-14-94; 8:45 am]
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