[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 129 (Thursday, July 6, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 35198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16501]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP95-576-000]
Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Application
June 29, 1995.
Take notice that on June 22, 1995, Northwest Pipeline Corporation
(Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, filed an
abbreviated application, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas
Act, for a certificate of Public convenience and necessity authorizing
Northwest to increase the storage withdrawal contract demand provided
under Rate Schedule SGS-1 for certain existing storage service
customers, all as more fully set forth in the application on file with
the Commission and open to public inspection.
Northwest ways that Washington Natural Gas Company (Washington
Natural), Project Operator of the Jackson Prairie Storage Project
(Jackson Prairie), has requested certificate authorization in Docket
No. CP95-300-000 to construct additional storage facilitates and to
inject 0.4 Bcf of additional cushion gas at Jackson Prairie in order to
increase the maximum firm withdrawal capacity by 100,000 Mcf per day.
Each of the three owners of Jackson Prairie, Washington Natural,
Northwest and the Washington Water Power Company (Water Power) have a
right to one-third of the resulting increased withdrawal capacity. As
the designated storage provider for all capacity at Jackson Prairie,
Northwest has entered into the necessary replacement storage service
agreements to reflect allocations among existing storage customers of
the planned additional 102,800 Dth per day (100,000 Mcf x 1.028dth/Mcf)
of firm withdrawal capacity.
Northwest states that its one-third share of the increased
withdrawal capacity, 34,266 Dth per day, was offered in an ``open-
season'' process to all customers with existing Rate Schedule SGS-1 or
SGS-2F service agreements for Jackson Prairie capacity owned by
Northwest. As a result, six SGS-2F customers contracted for a total of
15,182 Dth per day additional withdrawal contract demand, which
Northwest will self-implement under this Part 284, Subpart G blanket
transportation certificate, and two SGS-1 customers contracted for
19,084 Dth per day additional withdrawal contract demand.
Further, Northwest says that it has entered into replacement SGS-1
service agreements with Northwest Natural Gas Company, Washington
Natural and Water Power which cover both the 19,084 Dth per day of
Northwest's share of the increased Jackson Prairie withdrawal capacity
plus all of the Washington Natural and Waster Power ownership shares of
34,267 Dth per day each. Since Rate Schedule SGS-1 service is
certificated on a case-by-case basis, Northwest specifically requests
certificate authority to provide a total of 87,618 Dth per day of
additional Rate Schedule SGS-1 withdrawal contract demand for these
three existing customers, to be effective upon Washington Natural's
completion of its proposed project to expand the withdrawal capacity of
Jackson Prairie.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before July 20, 1995, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 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 mut 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 construction and operations 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 necessary for Northwest to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-16501 Filed 7-5-95; 8:45 am]
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