96-12138. El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24482-24483]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12138]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-496-000]


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

May 9, 1996.
    Take notice that on May 6, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP96-
496-000 a request pursuant to Sections 179.205, 157.212, and 157.216 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.212, 157.216) for authorization to abandon the existing meter 
located at the Texaco South Kermit Plant Receipt Point and the related 
service; and to operate a new meter to be constructed by Texaco Natural 
Gas Inc. (Texaco) as a delivery point under El Paso's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000 pursuant to Section 7 of 
the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is 
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    El Paso states that Texaco converted its South Kermit Gas Plant to 
a field compressor station. Consequently, Texaco will no longer deliver 
gas to El Paso at the Texaco South Kermit Receipt Point. Texaco now 
requires deliveries of pipeline quality gas to its South Kermit Gas 
Plant for use as compressor fuel. Consequently, Texaco requested that 
El Paso convert the Texaco South Kermit Receipt Point to a delivery 
point to facilitate delivery of compressor fuel. On November 10, 1995, 
El Paso and Texaco entered into Transportation Service Agreement that 
provides for interruptible transportation service from any receipt 
point on El Paso's system to all available delivery points on El Paso's 
system.
    El Paso states that operation of the Texaco South Kermit Meter 
Station as a delivery point is not prohibited by El Paso's existing 
tariff. El Paso further states that it has sufficient capacity to 
accomplish the transportation and delivery of the requested volumes 
without detriment or disadvantage to El Paso's other customers.
    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. 96-12138 Filed 5-14-96; 8:45 am]
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