[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 125 (Tuesday, June 30, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35583-35584]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-17326]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-596-000]
Columbia Gulf Transmission Company; Notice of Application
June 24, 1998.
Take notice that on June 5, 1998, as supplemented on June 17, 1998,
Columbia Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia Gulf), 2603 Augusta, Suite
125, Houston, Texas 77057-5637, filed in Docket No. CP98-596-000, an
application pursuant to Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act
(NGA)
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and Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission)
regulations, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity
authorizing the construction and operation of certain replacement
facilities and for permission and approval to abandon the facilities
being replaced, all as more fully set forth in the application which is
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Columbia Gulf requests permission and approval to abandon by
removal one 12,050 horsepower (Hp) International Organization for
Standard (ISO) rated compressor unit and appurtenances located in
Corinth, Alcorn County, Mississippi; one 12,050 Hp (ISO) rated
compressor unit and appurtenances located in Inverness, Humphreys
County, Mississippi; and one 14,000 Hp (ISO) rated compressor unit and
appurtenances located in Hampshire, Maury County, Tennessee. As
replacement for the aforementioned compressor units, Columbia Gulf
proposes to construct and operate one 17,282 Hp (ISO) rated compressor
unit and appurtenances at the Corinth Compressor Station; one 17,282 Hp
(ISO) rated compressor unit and appurtenances at the Inverness
Compressor Station; and one 14,550 Hp (ISO) rated compressor unit at
the Hampshire Compressor Station. The total cost associated with the
construction and operation of the compressor units is approximately
$37,600,000.
Columbia Gulf also proposes to increase the certificated Hp rating
of the Corinth Compressor Station from 44,750 Hp (ISO) to 49,982 Hp
(ISO); the Inverness Compressor Station from 38,100 Hp (ISO) to 45,832
Hp (ISO); and the Hampshire Compressor Station from 40,050 Hp (ISO) to
43,100 Hp (ISO).
Finally, Columbia Gulf proposes to increase the maximum
certificated capacity level of its mainline by 96,555 Dth per day to
2,218,868 Dth per day.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before July 9, 1998, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,
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 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. The Commission's rules require that protestors provide
copies of their protests to the party or person to whom the protests
are directed. 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.
A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive
copies of all documents issued by the Commission, filed by the
applicant, or filed by all other intervenors. An intervenor can file
for rehearing of any Commission order and can petition for court review
of any such order. However, an intervenor must serve copies of comments
or any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other
intervenor in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 14
copies with the Commission.
A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of such
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Commenters will be placed
on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of
environmental documents, and will be able to participate in meetings
associated with the Commission's environmental review process.
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on
all other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all
documents filed by other parties or issued by the Commission, and will
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final
order to a Federal court.
The Commission will consider all comments and concerns equally,
whether filed by commenters or those requesting intervenor status.
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 NGA and the
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held
without further notice before the Commission or its designee on these
applications 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 is 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 Gulf to appear or be represented at
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-17326 Filed 6-29-98; 8:45 am]
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