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[FR Doc No: 94-30278]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-75-000]
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
December 2, 1994.
Take notice that on November 15, 1994, Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas
77056-5310, filed an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the
Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Sec. 157.7 of the Commission's regulations
for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Texas
Eastern to construct and operate facilities necessary to utilize firm
contract storage services and to purchase and recover the cost of
6,000,000 Dekatherms (Dth) of working gas for system load balancing,
operational flexibility, and increased customer support for emergency
and non-emergency advance deliver services, all as more fully set forth
in the application on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
More specifically, Texas Eastern seeks authorization to: (i)
Utilize firm contract storage service to be rendered by MS-1
Distribution & Storage Corporation (MS-1 Distribution) pursuant to a
gas storage contract between MS-1 Distribution and Texas Eastern dated
November 1, 1994 (MS-1 Storage Contract); (ii) purchase and recover the
cost of 6,000,000 Dth of working gas in storage; (iii) construct,
install, own, and operate the necessary facilities for Texas Eastern to
deliver to and receive from MS-1 Distribution natural gas stored
pursuant to the MS-1 Storage Contract; (iv) make available to Texas
Eastern's Rate Schedules FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers Emergency Advance
Deliveries and Non-emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service; (v)
charge Rate Schedule FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers an initial rate,
subject to tracking under proposed Sec. 15.8 of the General Terms and
Conditions; and (vi) place into effect, without condition, the Pro
Forma Tariff Sheets set forth in Exhibit P as part of Texas Eastern's
FERC Gas Tariff.
MS-1 Distribution has entered into: a lease for two storage caverns
in Copiah County, Mississippi with Copiah County Storage Company; and
an agreement with TPC Facilities, Inc. to operate the storage caverns.
MS-1 Distribution's storage caverns will be located near Texas
Eastern's existing 30-inch pipeline system. Texas Eastern will
construct, own and operate a tap and filter separator and 1.96 miles of
24-inch pipeline from Texas Eastern's mainline near M.P. 263 to the
storage facility. A related tap and filter separator is also proposed
in Copiah County, Mississippi. Texas Eastern estimates the total
capital costs for the proposed facilities is $3,822,000 in 1997
dollars.
The MS-1 Storage Contract provides that MS-1 Distribution will
furnish Texas Eastern with firm storage service equal to a maximum
storage quantity (MSQ) of 6,000,000 Dth. It is currently anticipated
that the service will be implemented in two phases: the first phase,
with 3,000,000 Dth of firm storage service, available for the winter
season commencing November 1, 1997; and the second phase with an
additional 3,000,000 Dth (for a MSQ of 6,000,000 Dth) of firm storage
service, available approximately twelve months following the
implementation of the first phase.
Texas Eastern proposes to recover the cost associated with the MS-1
Storage Contract, the 6,000,000 Dth of working gas required to fill
Texas Eastern's storage inventory, and the associated necessary
facilities by means of an initial rate comprised of a reservation
surcharge, subject to tracking pursuant to proposed Sec. 15.8 of the
General Terms and Conditions of Texas Eastern's FERC Gas Tariff,
applicable to Rate Schedules FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers.
To the extent Texas Eastern is not utilizing storage services under
the MS-1 Storage Contract, Texas Eastern also proposes to offer Rate
Schedule FT-1, CDS, and SCT customers Emergency Advance Delivery
Service and Non-emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service.
Emergency Advance Delivery Service will permit Rate Schedules FT-1,
CDS, and SCT customers to nominate up to their Advance Delivery Maximum
Daily Quantity (MDQ) in emergency situations for advance deliveries
utilizing Texas Eastern's MS-1 Storage Contract rights during periods
of emergency without being required to tender to Texas Eastern receipts
of equivalent quantities on such day. Texas Eastern will also make Non-
emergency Advance Receipt and Delivery Service available to FT-1, CDS,
and SCT customers.
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this application
should, on or before December 23, 1994, file with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, N.E., 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 385.211 or 384.214) 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 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission by Sections 3, 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 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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-30278 Filed 12-8-94; 8:45 am]
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