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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY#
[Docket No. CP94-267-001, et al.]
NorAm Gas Transmission Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate
Filings
October 6, 1994.
Take notice that the following filings have been made with the
Commission:
1. NorAm Gas Transmission Co.
[Docket No. CP94-267-001]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission Company
(NGT), formerly Arkla Energy Resources Company, 1600 Smith Street,
Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. CP94-267-001 an amendment to
its original application filed in Docket CP94-267-000 pursuant to
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act for authorization to replace and
rearrange existing mainline pipeline, abandon minor storage and gas
supply facilities, and make certain mainline enhancements to its
pipeline system in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Texas, all as more fully
set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to
public inspection.
NGT indicates that in its original application, it proposed to
install two 2,250 h.p. slow speed reciprocal compressor units on its
Line F in the existing Ruston Storage Compressor yard and rearrange and
upgrade its Ruston Storage Compressor to perform both storage and
mainline compression service, as part of its proposed mainline
enhancements, at an estimated cost of $11.0 million.
NGT is amending its application to reflect a change in its proposed
mainline enhancements. NGT states that it is amending its application
to modify the compression facilities that were originally proposed to
be installed and rearranged in its Ruston Storage Compressor yard. NGT
explains that it now proposes to install one 2,200 h.p. MEP compressor
unit on Line F in its existing Ruston Storage Compressor yard to
provide injection/withdrawal service and rearrange its existing Ruston
Storage Compressor to perform mainline compression service, at a
revised estimated cost of $4.6 million.
Comment date: October 27, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.
2. Transwestern Pipeline Co.
[Docket No. CP94-751-001]
Take notice that on October 3, 1994, Transwestern Pipeline Company
(Transwestern), Post Office Box 1188, Houston, Texas 77251-1188 filed
an amendment (Amendment) to its original application in Docket No.
CP94-751-000, which was filed pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural
Gas Act for an order granting permission and approval to abandon
certain facilities. Transwestern states that the Amendment incorporates
the corrected and revised attachments to the original application for
abandonment, all as more fully set forth in the amendment which is on
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
It is stated that in the process of analyzing Transwestern's system
in response to the May 27, 1994, series of gathering orders issued by
the Commission and while preparing for further proceedings in
Transwestern's refunctionalization proceeding in Docket No. CP94-254-
000, it was discovered that certain field facilities, including
compressors, plants, meters, dehydrators and miscellaneous associated
facilities are no longer used and useful or are uneconomical or
otherwise unnecessary for continued operation of the pipeline.
Therefore, Transwestern states that it filed the original abandonment
application on August 30, 1994. Transwestern determined that it would
be most practical and efficient to promptly lay the groundwork for the
abandonment of said facilities and withdraw them from Transwestern's
refunctionalization proceeding where they had been previously included.
Transwestern states that it felt that this sequencing would avoid the
necessity of needlessly determining the facilities primary function
when they were, except for the uneconomical Halley Plant, unused and
unuseful.
After filing the abandonment application, Transwestern states that
it was discovered that there were several discrepancies in the
attachments to the application. Transwestern states that the
discrepancies have now been corrected and are the subject of its
Amendment. Transwestern states that the following is a summary
description of the changes made to the application's attachments:
a. Text. Only one page of text has been amended by the addition of
the word ``approximately'' in the fourth line of the second full
paragraph of Section VII.
b. Compression Facilities--Appendix 1.
Appendix 1, which includes the detail on all of the compressors has
been amended as follows:
i. Summary Sheet.
The Appendix 1 summary sheet has been amended in that the asterisks
which had indicated which of the compressors had also been included in
the refunctionalization filing in Docket No. CP94-254-000 have been
removed. The asterisks have been removed because Transwestern states
that it has determined that, in fact, knowing which of the facilities
in the abandonment filing are included in the refunctionalization
filing is a meaningless exercise; the original refunctionalization
filing made on February 25, 1994 only included those facilities for
which Transwestern requested a changed functionalization. Therefore,
multiple facilities which Transwestern included in the abandonment
proceeding were not included in the refunctionalization proceeding
because no change in functionalization was requested. Transwestern
states that realistically, the primary function that a facility had
when it was active is irrelevant to a determination of whether it is in
fact now used and useful. Transwestern states that it has concluded
that the asterisks have created more confusion than necessary and that
the application for abandonment would be more meaningful without them.
The system numbers for the Reger Stuart No. 726, the A.R. King No.
721, the Kemnitz Nos. 864 and 884 have been corrected.
The line segment numbers have been corrected for the Hoeppner No.
854, Meier Cruise No. 813, A.R. King No. 721, W. Waha No. 749 and the
Pecos River No. 839 compressors.
Additionally, it is stated that the original cost has been
corrected for all of the compressors but the Reger Stuart No. 726, the
Meier Cruise No. 813, the W. Waha No. 749 and the Monument No. 811
compressors. These corrections have been made due to the fact that the
database from which the data was originally retrieved has been scrubbed
in order to formulate Appendixes A and B of the refunctionalization
data response, a process that had not been performed when this
abandonment was originally filed. Finally, a cost total has been added
to the table.
ii. Individual Compressor Data Sheets.
All of the compressor data sheets behind the summary sheet have
been amended by the removal of line 4 which indicated whether the
compressor had been included in the refunctionalization proceeding.
Additionally, the original cost figures have been changed for all of
the compressors except the Reger Stuart No. 726, the Meier Cruise No.
813, the W. Waha No. 749 and the Monument No. 811 compressors. Finally,
Page 14, line 7 has been amended so that on in service date of 1969 is
reflected.
c. Plants--Appendix 2.
i. Summary Sheet.
The summary sheet in Appendix 2 has been amended to remove the
asterisks for those plants included in the refunctionalization filing.
The original cost for all of the plants except the Huber Plant has
been adjusted to reflect the refinement of the facilities database as
described above. In addition, the cost for the Bell Lake Plant has been
revised because two compressors and an extraneous piece of pipeline
were included in the original number in error. Finally, a cost total
for the plants has been added to the summary sheet.
ii. Individual Plant Data Sheets.
Line 3 has been deleted on all of the individual plant data sheets
to eliminate the cross reference to the refunctionalization proceeding.
The original cost figures have been corrected for each plant except the
Huber plant.
In addition, Transwestern states that its field personnel have
compiled more detailed information for each of the plants included in
the abandonment proceeding with regard to estimates of salvage value,
removal costs and reclamation costs. Thus, the entries on lines 12, 13
and 14 on the individual plant data sheets have been amended to reflect
a more individualized estimate. Finally, the entries on the Walton,
Keystone and Bell Lake Plants on line 14 have been amended to reflect
that more facilities than originally indicated are excepted from the
abandonment filing.
d. Appendix 3--Meters, Dehydrators and Associated Facilities.
Appendix 3 has been amended to remove the asterisks which had
indicated that certain facilities had been included in the
refunctionalization filing.
Corrections were made to 120 original cost figures, again due to
the refinement of the facilities database in connection with the data
responses in Docket No. CP94-254-000. Sixteen line entries were deleted
for facilities which had been improperly included in the appendix, and
ten facilities were added which had been improperly excluded from the
appendix. Finally, nine docket numbers contained typographical errors
and were corrected.
e. Exhibit Y--Accounting Treatment of Abandonment.
As a result of the above corrections and amendments, the entries in
Exhibit Y have also changed in Category 1 (Original Cost of Facilities
Proposed to be Abandoned); Category 2 (Cost of Removal); Category 3
(Salvage); Category 4 (Proposed Entries to Account); Category 6
(Accumulated Deferred Income Taxes); and Category 7 (accrued Current
Income Taxes).
Comment date: October 27, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.
3. Texas Gas Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP94-810-000]
Take notice that on September 28, 1994, Texas Gas Transmission
Corporation (Texas Gas), filed in Docket No. CP94-810-000 a request
pursuant to Sec. 157.205 of the Commission's Regulations under the
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) for authorization to add a new
delivery point in Marshall County, Kentucky, to serve an existing
customer, the City of Benton, Kentucky (Benton), under Texas Gas'
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 which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
Texas Gas states that the new delivery point would enable Benton to
accommodate increased heating and industrial load growth occurring in
the area and would be known as the Benton #2 Delivery Point.
Texas Gas states further that Texas Gas would construct, own,
operate and maintain a 2-inch meter station on Texas Gas' main line
system approximately four miles northwest of Benton in Marshall County,
Kentucky.
Service to this new delivery point, it is said, would be
accomplished within Benton's existing contract quantities and without
detriment to Texas Gas' other customers.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
4. Florida Gas Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP94-816-000]
Take notice that on September 30, 1994, Florida Gas Transmission
Company (FGT), 1400 Smith Street, P.O. Box 1188, Houston, Texas 77251-
1188, filed in Docket No. CP94-816-000 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
approximately .1 of a mile of the 3-inch lateral and the Estech Drying
Plant Meter Station, under FGT's blanket certificate issued in Docket
No. CP82-553-000 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.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
5. Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP94-818-000]
Take notice that on September 29, 1994, Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, P.O. Box 1642,
Houston, Texas 77056-5310, filed in Docket No. CP94-818-000 a request
pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.212 of the Commission's Regulations
under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.212) for authorization
to construct a new delivery point in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania,
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 will construct the new point for delivery of 75
Dekatherms per day of natural gas to Three Rivers Pipeline (Three
Rivers), an intrastate pipeline. Three Rivers requested Texas Eastern
to construct the delivery point between Texas Eastern and Three Rivers.
It will consist of an 8-inch tap and appurtenant piping on Texas
Eastern's 36-inch Line No. 29 at mile post 31.67. Three Rivers will
install a triple 6-inch meter station including 100 feet of 8-inch
connecting pipeline between the proposed Texas Eastern tap to Three
Rivers' proposed meter station and Electronic Gas Measurement (EGM).
Three Rivers will own the meter station and connecting pipe, while
Texas Eastern will own, operate, and maintain the EGM, with ownership
reverting to Three Rivers at service termination. Texas Eastern will
install, own, operate and maintain the proposed 8-inch tap. Three
Rivers will reimburse Texas Eastern 100% for cost and expenses
estimated at $111,600. Interruptible transportation pursuant to Part
284, Subpart B of the Commission's regulations will be rendered by
Texas Eastern for Three Rivers' system supply use.
Texas Eastern states the proposed delivery point will have no
effect on its peak day or annual deliveries or pose any detriment or
disadvantage to its other customers.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
6. Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
[Docket No. CP94-820-000]
Take notice that on September 29, 1994, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West
Virginia 25314-1599, filed in Docket No. CP94-820-000 a request
pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations
under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) for authorization to
construct and operate facilities for 13 new delivery points for
existing firm transportation customers in Ohio and West Virginia, under
Columbia's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP83-76-000, all as
more fully set forth in the request which is on file with the
Commission and open to public inspection.
Columbia proposes to construct and operate the facilities for the
delivery of gas to Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc. (COH) and Mountaineer Gas
Company (Mountaineer), Columbia's existing customers, in order for COH
to serve one residential customer and for Mountaineer to serve 12
residential customers. Columbia states that each of the 13 delivery
points would be used for the delivery of 1.5 dt equivalent of gas per
day and 150 dt equivalent on an annual basis. It is asserted that these
volumes would be within COH's and Mountaineer's existing peak day and
annual entitlements from Columbia. Columbia estimates the cost of
installing the facilities at $150 apiece. It is stated that the
delivery points would be used for the delivery of gas transported on a
firm basis under Columbia's Part 284 blanket certificate, issued in
Docket No. CP86-240-000.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
7. NorAm Gas Transmission Co.
[Docket No. CP95-4-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, NorAm Gas Transmission Company
(NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in Docket No.
CP95-4-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.211 of the
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act for authorization
under its blanket certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP82-384-000 and
CP82-384-001 to construct and operate certain facilities, all as more
fully set forth in the request which is on file with the Commission and
open to public inspection.
NGT proposes to convert an existing receipt point into a delivery
point on NGT's Line OM-1 in Franklin County, Arkansas to deliver up to
5,000 MMBtu per day of gas, transported pursuant to Sec. 284.223, to
serve Sunbelt Oil Field Services (Sunbelt). NGT states that the subject
facilities consist of a 6-inch tap, 6-inch meter run, two orifice
meters, temperature recorder and dehydrator. NGT further states the
facilities were originally constructed in 1990 under Sec. 2.55(d) of
the Commission's Regulations to receive gas from wells operated by
Sunbelt. NGT asserts that it would be reimbursed for the estimated cost
of construction which is $8,672.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.
8. Texas Gas Transmission Co.
[Docket No. CP95-6-000]
Take notice that on October 4, 1994, Texas Gas Transmission
Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro, Kentucky,
42301 filed in Docket No. CP95-6-000 a request pursuant to
Secs. 157.205 and 157.212 of the Commission's Regulations under the
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.212) for authorization to add a
new deliver point in Hopkins County, Kentucky, to serve Western
Kentucky Gas Company (Western), an existing customer, under Texas Gas'
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-407-000, pursuant to
Section 7(c) 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 states that the new delivery point, to be known as the
Buchanan Road delivery point, will be located on Texas Gas' Slaughters-
Nortonville 10'' pipeline in Hopkins County, Kentucky, at Milepost
7+4967, the site of an existing side valve. Texas Gas further states
that no construction of new facilities will be required by Texas Gas
since Texas Gas will be utilizing an existing side valve, located on
existing right-of-way and Western will install, own, operate and
maintain measurement and associated facilities.
Texas Gas advises that service to the new delivery point will be
accomplished within Western's existing contract quantities as set forth
in its Firm Transportation Agreement dated November 1, 1993 and its
Firm No Notice Transportation Agreement dated November 1, 1993. Texas
Gas also states that the natural gas delivered at the new delivery
point will enable Western to render natural gas service to residential
users in the Buchanan Road area.
Comment date: November 21, 1994, in accordance with Standard
Paragraph G 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. 94-25615 Filed 10-14-94; 8:45 am]
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