Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate Filings

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

[Docket No. CP95-150-000, et al.]

Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, et al.; Natural Gas

Certificate Filings

January 20, 1995.

Take notice that the following filings have been made with the

Commission:

1. Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP95-150-000]

Take notice that on January 11, 1995, Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642,

Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket No. CP95-150-000 a request

pursuant to Sec. Sec. 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's

Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.211) for

authorization to operate an existing tap as a bidirectional tap to

enable Texas Eastern to deliver gas to an independent producer under

Texas Eastern's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-535-000

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 Eastern proposes to operate an existing tap as a

bidirectional tap to enable Texas Eastern to deliver gas to and receive

gas from Zilkha Energy Company (Zilkha), an independent producer in

East Cameron Block 328 Platform. It is stated that up to 3,000 Dth/d

would be received and/or delivered through this tap. Zilkha will

install 9,230 feet of 4-inch pipeline and related meters extending from

East Cameron Block 328 to East Cameron Block 323.

It is also stated that the interruptible service for Zilkha would

be under Texas Eastern's Rate Schedule IT-1. Texas Eastern's tariff

does not prohibit the additional volumes, according to Texas Eastern.

Also, there would be no detriment to its other customers or impact on

its peak or annual deliveries.

Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph

G at the end of this notice.

2. Williams Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP95-154-000]

Take notice that on January 12, 1995, Williams Natural Gas Company

(WNG), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed in Docket No. CP95-

154-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205, 157.212 and 157.216 of

the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205,

157.212 and 157.216) for authorization to relocate the Kansas Gas &

Electric (KG&E) Brock tap and to abandon by reclaim, sale and in place

approximately 2.7 miles of 8-inch lateral pipeline located in Bourbon

County, Kansas under WNG's blanket certificate issued in Docket No.

CP82-479-000 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.

The tap's relocation is prompted by highway construction from the

Kansas Department of Transportation. WNG proposes to move the KG&E

Brock tap from the Ft. Scott 8-inch pipeline to the existing Ft. Scott

16-inch pipeline. Due to the highway construction, WNG will abandon by

reclaim approximately 550 feet, abandon in place approximately 2.6

miles, and sell to Kansas Power & Light/Kansas Gas & Electric (KPL/KGE)

approximately 0.5 miles of the 8-inch pipeline. Customers will be

affected by WNG's abandonment of the 8-inch pipeline, but agreement has

been met to continue their receiving service from KG&E. The estimated

construction cost is $16,044; the reclaim cost is $5,969 and the

salvage value is $3,200. The pipeline to be abandoned in place will be

purged with air and capped.

Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph

G at the end of this notice.

3. Washington Natural Gas Company

[Docket No. CP95-156-000]

Take notice that on January 13, 1995, Washington Natural Gas

Company (Washington Natural), 815 Mercer Street, Seattle, Washington

98111, filed in Docket No. CP95-156-000 for a Blanket Certificate of

Public Convenience and Necessity under Subpart F of the Commission's

Regulations for the Jackson Prairie Storage Project (Storage Project),

all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with

the Commission and open to public inspection.

According to Washington Natural, the Storage Project, an aquifer-

type natural gas storage facility in Chehalis (Lewis County)

Washington, connects to the main pipeline facilities of Northwest

Pipeline Corporation (Northwest), and is owned in equal undivided

interests by Washington Natural, The Washington Water Power Company and

Northwest. Washington Natural indicates that the operations of the

Storage Project will be conducted in accordance with an executed

agreement among the parties and that the overall supervision of the

project will be under the direction of a Management Committee.

Washington Natural states that although it has applied for case

specific certificates in the past related to operations at Storage

Project, it would be more cost effective and less time consuming if

Storage Project were permitted to utilize a blanket certificate.

Comment date: February 10, 1995, in accordance with the first

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

4. NorAm Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP95-160-000]

Take notice that on January 17, 1995, NorAm Gas Transmission

Company (NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket

No. CP95-160-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 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 facilities in Oklahoma

under NGT's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-384-000, et

al., 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.

NGT proposes to abandon by transfer and sale to Arkla a segment of

NGT's Line 634 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma and to abandon in place one

inactive 1-inch domestic tap on NGT's Line 634-2 in Hughes County,

Oklahoma. The segment of Line 634 consists of 2,520 feet of 2-inch

plastic pipe and three rural taps, two 1-inch and one 2-inch taps

serving only Arkla's rural domestic and small commercial customers. NGT

states that no customers or service will be abandoned as a result of

the transfer.

Comment date: March 6, 1995, in accordance with Standard Paragraph

G at the end of this notice.

5. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company and K N Interstate Gas

Transmission Co.

[Docket No. CP95-161-000]

Take notice that on January 18, 1995, Williston Basin Interstate

Pipeline Company (Williston), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300,

Bismarck, North Dakota 58501 and K N Interstate Gas Transmission Co. (K

N), 370 Van Gordon Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80228 filed a joint

application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and part

157 of the Commission's Regulations requesting permission and approval

to abandon sales, [[Page 5385]] transportation and exchange services

rendered under Williston's Rate Schedule No. X-3, FERC Gas Tariff,

Original Volume No. 1, and K N's Rate Schedule X-4, FERC Gas Tariff,

Second Revised Volume No. 2, effective December 1, 1994.\1\ The

application is on file with the Commission and open to public

inspection.

\1\See, 58 FPC 1738 (1977).

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Williston and K N state that they propose to abandon the above

services authorized in Docket Nos. CP75-154 and CP75-57, respectively,

to Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. (Williston's predecessor)\2\ and

Kansas-Nebraska Gas Company, Inc. (K N's predecessor).\3\ Williston and

K N state that pursuant to a June 30, 1994, Settlement Agreement, the

parties agreed to terminate the gas purchase obligation under Rate

Schedules X-3 and X-4 as of July 1, 1994, provided, however, that the

transportation and exchange service under Rate Schedule X-3 was to

continue until December 1, 1994, when the agreement was terminated in

its entirety. Williston and K N state that they are the only parties to

the gas sales, transportation and exchange services in the referenced

rate schedules.

\2\See, 30 FERC 61,143 (1985).

\3\See, 63 FERC 61,155 (1993).

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Comment date: February 10, 1995, 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 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.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95-2049 Filed 1-26-95; 8:45 am]

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