[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 178 (Tuesday, September 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49344-49345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24672]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-756-000]
El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket
Authorization
September 9, 1998.
Take notice that on September 1, 1998, El Paso Natural Gas Company
(El Paso), a Delaware corporation, whose mailing address is P.O. Box
1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP98-756-000 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 construct and operate a delivery point in Greenlee County, Arizona,
to permit the firm transportation and delivery and natural gas to
Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc., a partially-owned subsidiary of Phelps
Dodge Corporation (Phelps Dodge Morenci), 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 it provides firm transportation service to
Phelps Dodge Morenci pursuant to the terms and conditions of an
existing Transportation Service Agreement (TSA) dated August
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16, 1991, as amended and restated, between El Paso and Phelps Dodge
Corporation. The TSA provides for the firm transportation of Phelps
Dodge Corporation's full requirements of natural gas to delivery points
located in Arizona and New Mexico, including two existing delivery
points to Phelps Dodge Morenci in the Morenci, Arizona Area.
El Paso states that Phelps Dodge Morenci has informed El Paso that
it will be installing two new boilers at the Morenci location which
will require additional gas volumes to be delivered to Phelps Dodge
Morenci. To facilitate the delivery of the gas to Phelps Dodge Morenci,
El Paso and Phelps Dodge Morenci have agreed, pursuant to a Letter
Agreement date June 4, 1998, that El Paso would install a new delivery
point on El Paso's 8\5/8\'' O.D. Morenci Second Loop Line (Line No.
2083) in Greenlee County, Arizona, hereinafter referred to as the
``Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point.''
El Paso states that the total estimated cost of the proposed tap
and valve assembly, including respective overhead and contingency fees,
is $28,600. Phelps Dodge Morenci will reimburse El Paso for the costs
related to construction of the proposed delivery point. El Paso will
construct, own, operate and maintain the tap and valve facilities.
El Paso states that construction and operation of the Phelps Dodge
Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point is not prohibited by El Paso's existing
Volume No. 1-A Tariff and that El Paso has sufficient capacity to
accomplish deliveries of the requested gas volumes without detriment or
disadvantage to its 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.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-24672 Filed 9-14-98; 8:45 am]
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