[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 52 (Thursday, March 18, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13420-13421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-6560]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-240-000]
Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Request Under
Blanket Authorization
March 12, 1999.
Take notice that on March 5, 1999, Reliant Energy Gas Transmission
Company (Reliant), formerly NorAm Gas Transmission Company,\1\ 1111
Louisiana Street, Houston, Texas 77002-5231, filed in Docket No. CP99-
240-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 157.211 and 157.216 of
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,
157.211 and 157.216) for authorization to construct, and operate
certain facilities in Arkansas and to abandon the existing facilities.
Reliant makes such request under its blanket certificate issued in
Docket Nos. 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 on file
with the Commission. The filing may be viewed on the web at http://
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
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\1\ Effective February 2, 1999, as part of a corporate name
change, NorAm Gas Transmission Company changed its name to Reliant
Energy Gas Transmission Company.
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Reliant proposes to abandon an existing 2-inch delivery tap and 2-
inch positive displacement meter station on its Line JM-20, and to
construct and
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operate a delivery tap and meter station to provide continued
deliveries on Reliant's JM-20 Line to Reliant Energy Arkla (Arkla), a
division of Reliant Energy, Incorporated. Reliant proposes to abandon
in place a 2-inch tap and remove and junk the 2-inch positive
displacement meter station located at pipeline station 79+44, in St.
Francis County, Arkansas. It is averred that a new delivery tap,
consisting of a 2-inch tap, two 2-inch regulators, two 2-inch relief
valves and one 2-inch U-shape meter is proposed to be located at
pipeline station 77+44. It is stated that Reliant will own and operate
the meter station. The total volumes to be delivered to Arkla are
approximately 18,000 Dt annually and 250 Dt on a peak day. It is
indicated that the tap will be installed on existing right-of-way at an
estimated cost of $43,804.
Reliant states that it will transport gas to Arkla and provide
service under its tariff, and that the volumes delivered are within
Arkla's certificated entitlement.
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 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-6560 Filed 3-17-99; 8:45 am]
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