[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 130 (Friday, July 5, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35199-35200]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17076]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-594-000]
El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket
Authorization
June 28, 1996.
Take notice that on June 25, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El
Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP96-
94-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,
157.212) for authorization to operate three existing metering
facilities located in San Juan County, New Mexico, as jurisdictional
delivery points for delivery of natural gas under El Paso's blanket
certificate issued in Docket Nos. 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 it installed two metering facilities in
connection with the construction and installation of various procession
and treating facilities at the Blanco Plant and one metering facility
in connection with the pigging facilities on El Paso's 16'' O.D.
Blanco-Fruitland Line (Line No. 3200) to facilitate the delivery of
pipeline quality gas to those facilities for use as fuel. El Paso
further states that the Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities
and Line No. 3200 have been abandoned by El Paso and are now owned by a
different non-regulated entity; however, a need for pipeline quality
gas as fuel at these facilities still remains. El Paso states that in
order to facilitate the delivery of gas for fuel, El Paso now seeks
authorization to utilize the three existing metering facilities as
jurisdictional delivery points under a transportation arrangement and
to charge its tariff rates for any deliveries of gas to such points.
El Paso states that pursuant to the spin-down of production-area
facilities by El Paso to El Paso Field Services Company (Field
Services) as described in El Paso's application at Docket Nos. CP94-
183-000 and 001, Field Services acquired, among other things, the
Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities and Line No. 3200. El
Paso has been informed that Field Services will continue to need
pipeline quality gas to be utilized as fuel at the transferred
facilities.
El Paso states that the operation of the proposed delivery points
at the Blanco Plant processing and treating facilities and the pigging
operations on Line No. 3200 is not prohibited by El Paso's existing
Volume No. 1-A Tariff. El Paso further states that it will provide
interruptible transportation service to the proposed delivery points
pursuant to an effective Transportation Service Agreement (TSA) between
El Paso and El Paso Gas Marketing Company. In addition, El Paso states
that it has sufficient capacity to accomplish the deliveries specified
under the TSA without detriment or disadvantage to El Paso's other
customers.
El Paso states that the volumes of natural gas to be transported
through the proposed delivery points are:
(a) Blanco Plant Miscellaneous Operating Fuel No. 1--15.63 Mcf per
day for an average day;
(b) Blanco Miscellaneous Operating Fuel No. 2--5.30 Mcf per day for
an average day during those months when in use; and
(c) Dry Gas to Pig 16'' Wet Line--1,112 Mcf per day based on a peak
day with approximately 2 flow hours total (only used when pigging of
Line No. 3200 is necessary).
El Paso believes the delivery of gas through the existing metering
facilities will have a negligible effect upon El Paso's peak day and
annual deliveries based on its 1995 peak day transportation of
3,224,879 Mcf and a total annual transportation of 872,056,118 Mcf.
The request also states that El Paso's environmental analysis
supports the conclusion that the operation of the existing metering
facilities as jurisdictional delivery points will not be a major
Federal action significantly affecting the human environment.
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
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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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-17076 Filed 7-3-96; 8:45 am]
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