96-11982. El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24301-24302]
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[FR Doc No: 96-11982]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-486-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

May 8, 1996.
    Take notice that on May 3, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed a request with 
the Commission in Docket No. CP96-486-000, pursuant to Sections 157.205 
and 157.212 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA) for authorization to operate two existing tap and valve 
assemblies located in Reeves County, Texas as jurisdictional delivery 
points for the delivery of natural gas, authorized in blanket 
certificates issued in Docket Nos. CP82-435-000 and CP88-433-000, all 
as more fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and 
open to the public inspection.
    El Paso proposes to utilize two existing tap and valve assemblies 
which El Paso states that it installed in connection with the 
construction and installation of their Lockridge and Hamon-Toro Line 
Field Compressor Stations to facilitate the delivery of its own 
pipeline quality gas supply for fuel to these compressors. The 
compressor stations are now owned by a different entity but still 
require pipeline quality gas for fuel. Therefore, El Paso now seeks 
authorization to utilize the two existing tap and valve assemblies as 
jurisdictional delivery points to provide El Paso Field Service Company 
(Field Services) natural gas deliveries, at Field Services' request. 
Field Services intends to supply El Paso Gas Marketing Company (Gas 
Marketing) with gas for fuel at the Lockridge and Hamon-Toro Line Field 
Compressor Stations. In turn, Gas Marketing has requested El Paso to 
provide interruptible transportation to the two existing tap and valve 
assemblies on El Paso's mainline transmission system in Reeves Country, 
Texas.
    El Paso states that the operation of the proposed delivery points 
at the Lockridge and Hamon-Toro Line Field Compressor Stations is not 
prohibited by El Paso's existing Volume No. 1-A Tariff and that the 
volumes proposed to be delivered through the two existing tap and valve 
assemblies would be delivered pursuant to an effective transportation 
arrangement between El Paso and Gas Marketing. El Paso further states 
that it has sufficient capacity to accomplish the deliveries specified 
under the Transportation Service Agreement without detriment or

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disadvantage to El Paso's other customers.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after the 
Commission has issued this notice, 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If 
no protest is filed within the allowed time, 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 NGA.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-11982 Filed 5-13-96; 8:45 am]
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