[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 97 (Thursday, May 19, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Page 28972]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-12298]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP11-333-000]
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 new delivery point measurement
and regulating stations in Sussex County, Delaware and Worcester
County, 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--Delaware Division,
Chesapeake Utilities Corporation--Maryland Division, and Eastern Shore
Gas Company (Shippers), Eastern Shore proposes to construct, own,
operate, and maintain about 2.3 miles of new ten-inch steel pipeline
looping along Route 13 near Seaford in Sussex County, Delaware and 19.4
miles of six-inch mainline extension from Millsboro, Delaware to
Berlin, Worcester County, Maryland. Eastern Shore also proposes to
install new delivery point facilities in the towns of Frankford,
Dagsboro, and Selbyville, Delaware, and Bishop, Showell, and Berlin,
Maryland. Eastern Shore has entered into binding Precedent Agreements
with the Shippers in which the Shippers have agreed to execute fifteen-
year FT Service Agreements with Eastern Shore to provide additional
natural gas transportation service for the total of 6,250 dts/day \2\
under Eastern Shore's maximum FT Zone One and Zone Two Tariff Rates on
file with the Commission. Eastern Shore will recover its project costs
entirely from the Shippers, with no subsidy from Eastern Shore's other
firm service customers. The total estimate cost of the proposed
facilities is $13,018,853. Eastern Shore proposes the facilities to be
completed and placed into service by November 1, 2011.
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\2\ 4,050 dts/day to Chesapeake Utilities Corporation--Delaware
Division, 1,700 dts/day to Chesapeake Utilities Corporation--
Maryland Division, and 500 dts/day to Eastern Shore Gas Company.
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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
[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 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. 2011-12298 Filed 5-18-11; 8:45 am]
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