[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 56 (Tuesday, March 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14077-14078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7529]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-256-000]
Clear Creek Storage Company, L.L.C.; Notice of application
March 18, 1998.
Take notice that on March 2, 1998, Clear Creek Storage Company,
L.L.C. (Clear Creek), 180 East 100 South, P.O. Box 45601, Salt Lake
City, Utah 84145-0601, filed in Docket No. CP98-256-000, an application
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of
the Commission's Regulations, for a certificate of public convenience
and necessity authorizing Clear Creek to construct and operate
facilities necessary to convert a depleted gas production reservoir in
Uinta County, Utah into a storage facility, all as more fully set forth
in application which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
Clear Creek states that it is a limited liability corporation owned
by two gas marketers, Questar Trading Company (QTC) and Montana Power
Ventures Inc. (MPV) which own 75% and 25% of Clear Creek, respectively.
Clear Creek anticipates that the planned storage field will have
approximately 4 bcf of working gas, 2 to 4 bcf of cushion gas, and
projects injection and withdrawal rates of 35 Mmcf per day and 50 Mmcf
per day, respectively. To convert the production field, Clear Creek
proposes to install two 2,100 hp compressors, a liquid removal plant,
and certain natural gas liquid and water tanks. Clear Creek also
proposes to reinsulate and install heat tracing on an existing pipeline
that connects the planned injection/withdrawal well to the compressors.
Clear Creek proposes to operate the storage field solely for the
use of the two owners, QTC and MPV. The owners would use the storage
capacity of the field to buy and market natural gas and manage their
individual portfolios of natural gas supplies and customer demands.
Because Clear Creek does not propose to offer open access service it is
not requesting a blanket transportation certificate. Therefor, to the
extent necessary, Clear Creek requests a waiver of any applicable open
access requirement.
Any person desiring to be heard or making any protest with
reference to said application should on or before April 8, 1998, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First 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 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the
NGA (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. The
Commission's rules require that protestors provide copies of their
protests to the party or person to whom the protests are directed. 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.
A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive
copies of all documents issued by the Commission, filed by the
applicant, or filed by all other intervenors. An intervenor can file
for rehearing of any Commission order and can petition for court review
of any such order. However, an intervenor must serve copies of comments
or any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other
intervenor in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 14
copies with the Commission.
A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of such
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Commenters will be placed
on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of
environmental documents, and will be able to participate in meetings
associated with the Commission's environmental review process.
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on
all
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other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all
documents filed by other parties or issued by the Commission, and will
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final
order to a Federal court.
The Commission will consider all comments and concerns equally,
whether filed by commenters or those requesting intervenor status.
Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in
and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Commission by
Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA 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 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 Clear Creek to appear or be represented at
the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-7529 Filed 3-23-98; 8:45 am]
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