[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 178 (Tuesday, September 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49344-49345]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-24672]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-756-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

September 9, 1998.
    Take notice that on September 1, 1998, El Paso Natural Gas Company 
(El Paso), a Delaware corporation, whose mailing address is P.O. Box 
1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. CP98-756-000 a request 
pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of Commission's Regulations 
under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.212) for authorization 
to construct and operate a delivery point in Greenlee County, Arizona, 
to permit the firm transportation and delivery and natural gas to 
Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc., a partially-owned subsidiary of Phelps 
Dodge Corporation (Phelps Dodge Morenci), under El Paso's blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000 pursuant to Section 7 of 
the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is 
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    El Paso states that it provides firm transportation service to 
Phelps Dodge Morenci pursuant to the terms and conditions of an 
existing Transportation Service Agreement (TSA) dated August

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16, 1991, as amended and restated, between El Paso and Phelps Dodge 
Corporation. The TSA provides for the firm transportation of Phelps 
Dodge Corporation's full requirements of natural gas to delivery points 
located in Arizona and New Mexico, including two existing delivery 
points to Phelps Dodge Morenci in the Morenci, Arizona Area.
    El Paso states that Phelps Dodge Morenci has informed El Paso that 
it will be installing two new boilers at the Morenci location which 
will require additional gas volumes to be delivered to Phelps Dodge 
Morenci. To facilitate the delivery of the gas to Phelps Dodge Morenci, 
El Paso and Phelps Dodge Morenci have agreed, pursuant to a Letter 
Agreement date June 4, 1998, that El Paso would install a new delivery 
point on El Paso's 8\5/8\'' O.D. Morenci Second Loop Line (Line No. 
2083) in Greenlee County, Arizona, hereinafter referred to as the 
``Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point.''
    El Paso states that the total estimated cost of the proposed tap 
and valve assembly, including respective overhead and contingency fees, 
is $28,600. Phelps Dodge Morenci will reimburse El Paso for the costs 
related to construction of the proposed delivery point. El Paso will 
construct, own, operate and maintain the tap and valve facilities.
    El Paso states that construction and operation of the Phelps Dodge 
Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point is not prohibited by El Paso's existing 
Volume No. 1-A Tariff and that El Paso has sufficient capacity to 
accomplish deliveries of the requested gas volumes without detriment or 
disadvantage to its other customers.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 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 Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
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 time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-24672 Filed 9-14-98; 8:45 am]
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