96-27647. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 210 (Tuesday, October 29, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55798-55799]
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[FR Doc No: 96-27647]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-29-000]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request 
Under Blanket Authorization

October 23, 1996.
    Take notice that on October 16, 1996, Williston Basin Pipeline 
Company (Williston Basin), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, Bismarck, 
North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP97-29-000 a request pursuant 
to Sections 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under 
the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for authorization to 
operate an existing tap to accommodate deliveries of gas to Montana-
Dakota Utilities Co. in Custer County, Montana, under Williston Basin's 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-487-000, 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.
    Williston Basin proposes to utilize the tap for the delivery of 100 
Mcf of natural gas per day to M-D Utilities, a local distribution 
company. It is started that the end use of the gas will be residential. 
Williston Basin proposes to transport gas to M-D Utilities under its 
Rate Schedules FT-1 and/or IT-1. It is asserted that the proposed 
deliveries will have no significant effect on Williston Basin's peak 
day or annual requirements. It is stated that Williston Basin has 
sufficient capacity to make the deliveries and that Williston Basin's 
tariff does not prohibit the addition of new delivery points. It is 
further stated that the deliveries are within the existing entitlement 
of M-D Utilities.
    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 Section

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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 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. 96-27647 Filed 10-28-96; 8:45 am]
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