98-17756. El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 128 (Monday, July 6, 1998)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-627-000]


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

June 29, 1998.
    Take notice that on June 19, 1998, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP98-
627-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.212) for authorization to modify an existing receipt point as a 
delivery point in Upton County, Texas and to thereafter operate the new 
delivery point in jurisdictional service to permit the delivery of 
natural gas to NuStar Joint Venture (NuStar), 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 NuStar has requested the delivery of pipeline 
quality natural gas as fuel for new field compression facilities in its 
gathering system. To facilitate NuStar's request, El Paso will modify a 
receipt point to a delivery point on El Paso's 20'' O.D. Upton County 
Line (Line No. 1105) and thereafter transport, under NuStar's 
interruptible Transportation Service Agreement, volumes of gas to 
NuStar's new delivery point.
    El Paso states that this proposal is not prohibited by its existing 
tariff and that El Paso has sufficient capacity to accomplish 
deliveries without detriment or disadvantage to its other customers.
    El Paso requests authorization to modify and operate the NuStar 
Joint Venture Delivery Point on its Line No. 1105 in Upton County, 
Texas. The estimated cost of NuStar Joint Venture Delivery Point is 
$5,500 and NuStar will reimburse El Paso for the cost related to the 
construction of this delivery point.
    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 allow 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-17756 Filed 7-2-98; 8:45 am]
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