[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 97 (Thursday, May 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28972-28973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12297]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP11-303-000]
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under
Blanket Authorization
Take notice that on April 28, 2011, Eastern Shore Natural Gas
Company (Eastern Shore), 1110 Forrest Avenue, Dover, Delaware, 19904,
pursuant to its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP96-128-
000,\1\ filed an application in accordance to sections 157.205(b),
157.208(c), and 157.210 of the Commission's Regulations under the
Natural Gas Act (NGA) as amended, for the construction, ownership, and
operation of new mainline facilities and a new delivery point
measurement and regulating station from Glasgow, Delaware to Elkton,
Maryland, all as more fully set forth in the application, which is on
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
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\1\ 81 FERC ] 61,013 (1997).
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In order to provide additional firm natural gas transportation
service to Chesapeake Utilities Corporation--Maryland Division
(Chesapeake), Eastern Shore proposes to construct, own, operate, and
maintain about 5 miles of new six-inch steel pipeline running westward
from Route 40 in Glasgow, Delaware to Elkton, Maryland, and install a
new delivery point measurement and regulating station near the
intersection of US 40 and Maryland 279 in Elkton, Maryland. Eastern
Shore has entered into a binding Precedent Agreement with Chesapeake in
which Chesapeake has agreed to execute a fifteen-year FT Service
Agreement with Eastern Shore to provide additional natural gas
transportation service of 4,070 dts/day under Eastern Shore's maximum
FT Zone One Tariff Rate on file with the Commission. Eastern Shore will
recover its project costs entirely from Chesapeake, with no subsidy
from Eastern Shore's other firm service customers. The total estimate
cost of the proposed facilities is $5,850,450. Eastern Shore proposes
the facilities to be completed and placed into service by November 1,
2011.
Any questions concerning this application may be directed to Glen
DiEleuterio, Project Manager, at (302) 734-6710, ext. 6723 or via fax
(302) 734-6745, or e-mail at [email protected].
This filing is available for review at the Commission or may be
viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, using the
``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three
digits in the docket number filed to access the document. For
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERC
[email protected] or call toll-free at (866)206-3676, or, for TTY,
contact (202)502-8659. Comments, protests and interventions may be
filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18
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CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web
site under the ``e-Filing'' link. The Commission strongly encourages
intervenors to file electronically.
Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 60 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to the
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefore, 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 allowed time for filing a
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for
authorization pursuant to section 7 of the NGA.
Dated: May 12, 2011.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2011-12297 Filed 5-18-11; 8:45 am]
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