Frontier Gas Storage Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate Filings

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

[Docket No. CP85-221-033, et al.]

Frontier Gas Storage Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate

Filings

July 22, 1994.

Take notice that the following filings have been made with the

Commission:

1. Frontier Gas Storage Company

[Docket No. CP85-221-033]

Take notice that on July 19, 1994, Frontier Gas Storage Company

(Frontier), c/o Reid & Priest, Market Square, 701 Pennsylvania Ave.,

N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004, in compliance with the provisions of the

Commission's February 13, 1985, Order in Docket No. CP82-487-000 et

al., submitted an executed Service Agreement under Rate Schedule LVS-1

providing for the possible sale of 400,000 MMBtu of Frontier's gas

storage inventory on an ``in place'' basis to Rainbow Gas Company

(Rainbow).

Under Subpart (b) of Ordering Paragraph (G) of the Commission's

February 13, 1985, Order, Frontier is ``authorized to consummate the

proposed sale in place unless the Commission issues an order within 20

days after expiration of such notice period either directing that the

sale not take place and setting it for hearing or permitting the sale

to go forward and establishing other procedures for resolving the

matter. Deliveries of gas sold in place shall be made pursuant to a

schedule to be set forth in an exhibit to the executed service

agreement.''

Comment date: August 12, 1994, in accordance with the first

paragraph of Standard Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

2. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation

[Docket No. CP94-665-000]

Take notice that on July 18, 1994, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation (Transco), Post Office Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251,

filed in Docket No. CP94-665-000 a request pursuant to Section 157.205

of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR

157.205) for authorization to construct and operate a new

interconnection between its main line and its West Conshohocken Lateral

in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania,\1\ under Transco's blanket

certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-426-000 pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request which

is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.

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\1\The West Conshohocken Lateral is used by Transco to deliver

up to 56,000 Mcf of natural gas per day to the distribution system

of PECO Energy Company.

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Transco proposes to construct and operate a 6-inch check valve,

insulating flange assembly and approximately thirty one feet of tie-in

piping to connect Transco's existing West Conshohocken Lateral to an

existing tap on Transco's 36-inch Main Line ``C'' in Montgomery County,

Pennsylvania. Transco states that the West Conshohocken Lateral is tied

into Main Lines ``A'' and ``B''. The Main Line ``A'' pressures are not

high enough at this point to maintain adequate delivery pressure into

the lateral Transco, it is indicated. Transco states that the proposed

interconnection on Main Line ``C'' would enable Transco to maintain

adequate delivery pressure into the lateral since Main Line ``C'' is

operated at a higher pressure than Main Line ``A''.

Transco states that since it is not proposing to increase the

quantities of gas delivered to the lateral or alter the authorized firm

transportation or storage service levels for any customers, the new

interconnection would have no impact on Transco's peak day and annual

deliveries. Transco further states that its existing tariff does not

prohibit the addition of the new interconnection and that it has

sufficient capacity to provide for the proposed deliveries without any

detriment or disadvantage to its existing customers.

Comment date: September 6, 1994, in accordance with Standard

Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

3. Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP94-658-000]

Take notice that on July 13, 1994, Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

(Koch Gateway), P.O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-1478, filed in

Docket No. CP94-658-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and

157.211(a)(2) of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act

(18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for authorization to construct and operate a

12-inch tap to provide a delivery point to Cypress Pipeline Company

(Cypress) under Koch Gateway's blanket certificate issued in Docket No.

CP82-430-000 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.

Koch Gateway proposes to install a 12-inch tap and related

facilities on its Kosciusko 30-inch loop line in Assumption Parish,

Louisiana. The customer is currently connected to this line. Koch

Gateway proposes to connect existing metering facilities to its

Kosciusko 30-inch loop line at the same general location. Koch Gateway

proposes only to relocate the tap for existing service to an adjacent

loop line. Koch Gateway states no additional new service is proposed

and no impact will be seen on its curtailment plan. All construction

will be within existing and previously disturbed right-of-way. The

estimated cost is $57,066. Koch Gateway has sufficient capacity to

render the proposed service without detriment or disadvantage to its

other existing customers and its tariff doesn't prohibit the proposed

modification of facilities.

Koch Gateway states it is authorized to provide service to Cypress

under its Docket No. ST90-1195 transportation agreement dated August

19, 1988, pursuant to its blanket certificate in Docket No. CP88-6-000

and under ITS Rate Schedule.

Comment date: September 6, 1994, in accordance with Standard

Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

4. Texas Gas Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP94-667-000]

Take notice that on July 19, 1994, Texas Gas Transmission

Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro, Kentucky

42301, filed in Docket No. CP94-667-000 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 expand the

utilization of an existing point of delivery to Central Illinois Public

Service Company (CIPS), known as the Cips/Marathon Delivery Point

(Cips/Marathon), located in Crawford County, Illinois under Texas Gas's

blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-407-000 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.

Texas Gas proposes to expand the utilization of the Cips/Marathon

delivery point so that Texas Gas can continue to make deliveries of gas

to CIPS through the Cips/Marathon delivery point, as well as make

direct deliveries of gas transported by Texas Gas to Marathon Oil

Company (Marathon), who operates an oil refinery in Robinson, Illinois,

which is the sole end-user located downstream of the Cips/Marathon

delivery point.

Texas Gas states that Marathon recently requested that Texas Gas

make natural gas deliveries directly to Marathon at the CIPS/Marathon

delivery point, as well as continue to deliver gas to CIPS at such

point. Texas Gas states that because it owns the meter station which

directly interconnects with the facilities of Marathon, direct

deliveries by Texas Gas to Marathon can be accomplished without the

construction of any additional facilities by Texas Gas.

Texas Gas states that the deliveries to Marathon at the CIPS/

Marathon delivery point will initially consist of 24,000 MMBtu per day

of existing interruptible transportation service and 12,000 MMBtu per

day of existing firm transportation service. Texas Gas states that such

services are being provided by Texas Gas pursuant to its blanket

certificate issued in Docket No. CP88-686-000 and Section 284.223 of

the Commission's regulations.

Texas Gas further states that since no incremental firm service is

proposed through the subject delivery point, such deliveries will have

no impact on Texas Gas's peak day and annual deliveries.

Comment date: September 6, 1994, in accordance with Standard

Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

5. Chandeleur Pipe Line Company

[Docket No. CP94-671-000]

Take notice that on July 20, 1994, Chandeleur Pipe Line Company

(Chandeleur), P.O. Box 740339, New Orleans, Louisiana 70174-0339, filed

in Docket No. CP94-671-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and

157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18

CFR 157.205, 157.216) for authorization to abandon certain lateral

lines and related facilities under Chandeleur's blanket certificate

issued in Docket No. CP89-929-000 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.

Chandeleur proposes to abandon lateral lines and related

facilities, located within the Pascagoula, Mississippi refinery-

chemical complex of Chandeleur's affiliates, Chevron U.S.A. Products

Company and Chevron Chemical Company (Chevron). Chandeleur proposes to

accomplish this abandonment by transferring ownership of these

facilities to Chevron. Chandeleur states that these lines were

authorized by certificates issued in Docket Nos. CP64-37, 30 FPC 1515

(1963), as amended in 36 FPC 492 (1966) and 38 FPC 759 (1967), CP69-76,

42 FPC 20 (1969), and CP86-687-000, 39 FERC  62,041 (1987). Chandeleur

also states that these facilities were only used to provide service for

Chevron and Mississippi Power Company. Chandeleur states that

Mississippi Power Company consents to the proposed abandonment.

Comment date: September 6, 1994, in accordance with Standard

Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

6. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP94-677-000]

Take notice that on July 21, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission Company

(NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No.

CP94-677-000 an application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the

Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon certain

facilities and for a certificate to construct and operate certain

facilities, all as more fully set forth in the application on file with

the Commission and open to public inspection.

NGT proposes to upgrade an existing regulator and to abandon a

related inactive 6-inch dual-run meter station,2 both of which

sites are located in Clark County, Arkansas. NGT would (1) replace an

existing 1-inch 630 Fisher regulator with a 1-inch 399 Fisher regulator

on its transmission Line L at the point where NGT's 3-inch Line AM-173

interconnects with Line L in Section 17, Township 9 South, Range 20

West, (pipeline station 2833+24) and (2) abandon an inactive 6-inch

dual-run meter station and a first cut regulator and relief valve at an

existing delivery tap to Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company (ALG) on NGT's

Line AM-173 located in Section 16, Township 9 South, Range 20 West

(pipeline station 38+87). NGT states that the proposed activities are

necessary to accommodate increased deliveries of natural gas to

International Paper Company (IPC), an existing industrial customer of

ALG. NGT explains that the increased volumes are due to the

modification and expansion of IPC's plywood plant at Gurdon, Arkansas.

NGT estimates that the future volumes of gas to be delivered to IPC

would be approximately 2,500 Mcf on a peak day and 365,000 Mcf

annually, and states these volumes are within ALG's certificated

entitlements.

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\2\NGT advises that the dual 6-inch meter station was originally

installed in 1966 under the certificate issued in Docket No. CP66-

337-000 (36 FPC 19 (1966)) when Line AM-173 was constructed to

deliver gas to a plywood company owned by Arkla, Inc., subsequently

acquired by International Paper Company; the 6-inch meter station

has been inactive for a number of years; the station was replaced by

a 2-inch meter station owned and operated by Arkansas Louisiana Gas

Company, currently active.

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Comment date: August 12, 1994, in accordance with Standard

Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

F. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with

reference to said application should on or before the comment date,

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'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 must 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/or permission and approval

for the proposed abandonment 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 unnecessary for applicant to appear or be represented at the

hearing.

G. 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 Sec. 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. 94-18539 Filed 7-28-94; 8:45 am]

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