[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 5, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34978-34979]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16350]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-29-001]
Paiute Pipeline Company; Notice of Amendment
June 28, 1995.
Take notice that on March 27, 1995, Paiute Pipeline Company
(Paiute), P.O. Box 94197, Las Vegas, Nevada 89193-4197, filed in Docket
No. CP94-29-001, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, an
amendment to its October 15, 1993 application in Docket No. CP94-29-
001, requesting authorization to construct and operate certain pipeline
loop and pressure regulation and measurement facilities, in order to
enable Southwest Gas Corporation-Northern California (Southwest-
Northern California) to serve the city of Truckee, California, and
environs, and to increase Paiute's capacity to provide additional
delivery point flexibility to Southwest Gas Corporation-Northern Nevada
(Southwest-Northern Nevada) in its Incline Village, Nevada market area,
all as more fully set forth in the amendment which is on file with the
Commission and open for public inspection.
Paiute states that on October 15, 1993, Paiute filed its
application in Docket No. CP94-29-000, in which it requested various
certificate authorizations pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas
Act. Paiute indicates that the purpose of the requested authorizations
was to permit it to transport up to 10,333 Dth/d of additional gas to
Southwest-Northern California at its existing delivery point to enable
Southwest-Northern California to provide new natural gas service to the
Truckee area. In addition, Paiute states that the facilities proposed
in its October 15, 1993 application would enable Paiute to provide
additional delivery point flexibility to Southwest-Northern Nevada such
that Southwest-Northern Nevada could receive additional quantities of
up to 2,455 Dth/d of gas at delivery points in Southwest-Northern
Nevada's Incline Village market area along the North Tahoe Lateral, and
up to 1,496 Dth/d of gas at a delivery point on the Elko Lateral.
Paiute indicates that Southwest-Northern California has recently
reevaluated various pipeline transportation options, and has now
requested that Paiute expand its system to add delivery capacity
between the Wadsworth Junction, where Paiute's mainline divides between
its Reno Lateral and Carson Lateral, and the existing delivery point to
Southwest-Northern California at the terminus of Paiute's North Tahoe
Lateral.
Consequently, Paiute, by its amendment, now requests authorization
in this proceeding to construct and operate pipeline loop and
measurement and pressure regulating facilities so as to expand the
delivery capacity of its system between the Wadsworth Junction and the
terminus of its North Tahoe Lateral by 12,788 Dth/d. Paiute states that
the proposed facilities will enable it to provide additional firm
transportation service between those points to Southwest-Northern
California of 10,333 Dth/d, and will enable Paiute to accommodate
Southwest-Northern Nevada's request to provide it with additional
delivery capacity to its Incline Village delivery points of 2,455 Dth/
d. Paiute further states that it will file a new certificate
application in a separate docket to request authorization for the Elko
Lateral compressor stations.
Specifically, Paiute now proposes to:
(1) Construct and operate 11.1 miles of 16-inch loop pipeline and
3.0 miles of 12-inch loop pipeline on its North Tahoe Lateral;
(2) Construct and operate 5.8 miles of 12-inch loop pipeline on its
South Tahoe Lateral;
(3) Install pressure regulating equipment at the California Check
Meter station on its North Tahoe Lateral;
(4) Relocate the South Tahoe Lateral pressure reduction station;
and
(5) Modify the Wadsworth Junction pressure regulation station.
Paiute states that the estimated cost the proposed facilities if
$10,451,878. Paiute intends to finance the cost of construction through
ongoing regular financing programs and internally generated funds.
Paiute states that it has entered into a new transportation service
agreement with Southwest-Northern California to transport an additional
10,333 Dth/d of gas to it. Paiute further states that it has entered
into a transportation service
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agreement with Southwest-Northern Nevada under which it would increase
its billing determinants by 2,455 Dth/d under Paiute's Rate Schedule
FT-1.
Paiute proposes that the rates for the services to be provided by
means of the proposed facilities be designed using an incremental
facilities surcharge in Rate Schedule FT-1 applicable to the two
shippers receiving additional service as a result of the expansion,
under which the costs and revenues related to the construction of the
proposed facilities for service to the Truckee and Incline Village
areas will be considered on an incremental cost basis.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said amendment should, on or before July 19, 1995 file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426,
a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements
of the Commission Rules of practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 or
385.214) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10).
All protest 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 proceedings. 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. All person who have heretofore filed need not file
again.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16350 Filed 7-3-95; 8:45 am]
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