65FR38270 Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
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Posting-number: Volume 65, Issue 119, Page 38270
[Federal Register: June 20, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 119)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP00-382-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
June 14, 2000.
Take notice that on June 9, 2000, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), Post Office Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia
25325-1273 in Docket No. CP00-382-000 an application, as supplemented
on September 28, 1999, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act
to permit Columbia to use firm capacity on Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Company (Tennessee) and National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (National
Fuel), all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file
with the Commission and open to public inspection. This filing may be
viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-
2222).
Columbia proposes to use firm capacity on Tennessee of up to 10,000
dt per day from Unionville, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to Highland,
Elk County, Pennsylvania, and to use firm capacity on National Fuel of
6,608 dt per day from Ellwood City, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to
Lewis Run, McKean County, Pennsylvania, both for a primary term
beginning November 1, 2000, and ending October 31, 2004, with an
evergreen provision.
It is stated that, by order issued November 12, 1999, in Docket No.
CP99-625-000, Columbia was permitted to acquire up to 16,476 dt of firm
capacity on Tennessee from Broad Run, Kanawha County, West Virginia to
Highland, Elk County, Pennsylvania for a period beginning October 1,
1999, and ending March 31, 2000. Columbia indicates it required the
firm capacity while it evaluated whether or not to replace portions of
its Lines 1818 and 1862. Columbia states that it has now determined
that it is more economical to acquire capacity on a long term basis
from Tennessee and National Fuel than repair or replace the two
pipelines. Columbia states that it will recover the costs associated
with the Tennessee and National Fuel capacity in a subsequent
Transportation Cost Recovery Adjustment filing.
Columbia also states that it will file an application to abandon
the portions of Lines 1818 and 1862 located between the Renova
Compressor Station and Smethport in the near future.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before July 5, 2000, 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 Regulation 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 permission for 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-15482 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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