[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 71 (Thursday, April 13, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18807-18808]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9066]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Southern Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Application
[Docket No. CP95-289-000]
April 7, 1995.
Take notice that on March 30, 1995, Southern Natural Gas Company
(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed in
Docket No. CP95-289-000 an application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and
(c) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon
facilities to be replaced and for a certificate to construct and
operate certain facilities, including replacement facilities, all as
more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and
open to public inspection.
Southern states that its proposal is an integral part of the
compromises established in its Stipulation and Agreement (Settlement)
filed on March 15, 1995, in Docket Nos. RP89-224, et al., to resolve
all of its outstanding rate and gas supply realignment cost proceedings
pending before the Commission. Southern thus proposes the following
projects and requests Commission approval of the application by no
later than October 31, 1995, contingent upon and in conjunction
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with approval of the provisions of the Settlement.\1\
\1\Southern indicates that a related filing is being made
concurrently in Docket No. CP95-292-000 to abandon approximately 122
miles of its Brunswick Line by sale to AGL, and to construct a meter
station at the new interconnect with the portion of the line being
sold.
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(1) Project 1: Construct, install, replace and operate the
following facilities: approximately 11.8 miles of 30-inch pipeline in
Henry and Clayton Counties, Georgia, to replace 6.1 miles of existing
14-inch Ocmulgee-Atlanta loop pipeline and 5.7 miles of existing 12-
inch Macon branch pipeline, and various modifications at the Marietta,
South Atlanta No. 1, and Dallas No. 2 meter stations serving Atlanta
Gas Light Company (AGL), all of which are to enhance operational
flexibility and to increase peak hour flow through various meter
stations in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.\2\ Southern explains that (a)
there would be miscellaneous modifications of piping at the South
Atlanta regulator station and South Atlanta No. 1 meter station, (b)
the Marietta meter station would be rebuilt with three 8-inch orifice
meter runs, and (c) the existing metering facilities at the Dallas No.
2 meter station would be replaced with a 6-inch turbine meter run and
appurtenant facilities.
\2\Southern states that, although AGL has contracted for an
additional 100,000 Mcf/day of firm transportation service as part of
the overall economics necessary to achieve the Settlement, including
the installation of these facilities, the facilities involved here
do not provide additional firm capacity to meter stations serving
the Atlanta area.
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(2) Project 2: Construct and operate approximately 7.8 miles of 20-
inch South Main 2nd loop pipeline immediately upstream of the Wrens
Compressor Station in Glascock and Jefferson Counties, Georgia, and
approximately 3.1 miles of 20-inch loop line immediately upstream of
the Hall Gate Compressor Station in Baldwin County, Georgia, to enhance
the overall service available and to provide increased service on
shoulder days (days before and after peak days) to South Carolina
Pipeline Corporation (SCPL).\3\
\3\Southern advises that although SCPL has contracted for an
additional 28,000 Mcf/day of firm transportation service as part of
the overall economics necessary to achieve the Settlement, including
the installation of these facilities, these facilities do not
provide additional firm capacity.
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(3) Project 3: Construct and operate approximately 7.1 miles of 30-
inch South Main 3rd loop pipeline immediately upstream of the Auburn
Compressor Station in Lee and Macon Counties, Alabama, to provide 8,000
Mcf/day of additional firm transportation service for SCANA
Hydrocarbons, Inc., an affiliate of SCPL.\4\
\4\Southern included a copy of a SCANA service agreement dated
March 28, 1995, for transportation service under Southern's Rate
Schedule FT, as Exhibit I of its application.
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Southern estimates that the total cost of these facilities will be
$26,850,250. Southern advises that financing would be accomplished
initially through the use of short term financing, available cash from
operations, or use of both alternatives and, ultimately, from permanent
financing.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before April 28, 1995, 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 385.214 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 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 Southern to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-9066 Filed 4-12-95; 8:45 am]
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