[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14769-14770]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8071]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-753-002]


United Cities Gas Company; Notice of Petition To Amend

March 28, 1996.
    Take notice that on March 19, 1996, United Cities Gas Company 
(United Cities), 5300 Maryland Way, Brentwood, Tennessee 37027, filed 
in Docket No. CP94-753-002 a petition pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act to amend its certificate issued in Docket No. CP94-753-
000,\1\ to add additional fields to its certificated storage 
facilities, all as more fully set forth in the petition on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.

    \1\ By order issued September 20, 1994, United Cities was 
granted a limited-jurisdiction certificate authorizing the 
transportation of natural gas in interstate commerce limited to 
operations involving the Barnsley Storage Field (Barnsley) in 
Hopkins County, Kentucky (68 FERC para.61,334 (1994)).
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    United Cities proposes to add to its certificated storage 
facilities the following four storage fields: the Liberty North and 
Liberty South Fields in Montgomery County, Kansas, and the Buffalo and 
Fredonia Fields in Wilson County, Kansas. United Cities states that, 
like Barnsley, these fields are owned by United Cities Storage Company, 
a subsidiary of United Cities, which leases all of the capacity in 
these fields to United Cities. United Cities advises that, to date, it 
has operated these four fields solely in support of its local 
distribution function in Kansas.
    United Cities states that Woodward Marketing, L.L.C. (Woodward) 
would now like to lease part of the capacity in the Kansas storage 
facilities and use it for its system management in the same way it uses 
the capacity in Barnsley.\2\ United Cities further states that with the 
exception of the location of the leased storage capacity, all other 
aspects of the certificated operations would remain unchanged and still 
limited to one party: Woodward. It is further stated that Woodward 
intends to use the leased capacity solely for its own benefit (1) to 
balance its gas supply portfolio, (2) to enhance its operational 
capabilities, and (3) to enable it to

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provide more flexible firm sales services to potential customers.

    \2\ On June 28, 1995, an order was issued in Docket No. CP94-
753-001 authorizing the substitution of Woodward for Sonat Marketing 
Company as the lessee of storage capacity in Barnsley (71 FERC 
para.62,220 (1995)).
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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition to amend should on or before April 8, 1996, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the 
requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 
CFR 384.214 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-8071 Filed 4-2-96; 8:45 am]
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