[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 199 (Thursday, October 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55380-55381]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27607]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-780-000]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

October 8, 1998.
    Take notice that on September 14, 1998, as supplemented October 6, 
1998, Northern Natural Gas Company (Northern Natural), P.O. Box 3330, 
Omaha, Nebraska 68103-0330, filed a prior notice request with the 
Commission in Docket No. CP98-780-000 pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for 
authorization to operate an existing delivery point, initially 
constructed under Section 311 (a) of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 
1978, as a jurisdictional facility to provide transportation service to 
Bunge Corp. (Bunge) in Mills County, Iowa, under Northern Natural's 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-401-000 pursuant to 
Section 7 of the NGA, all as more fully set forth in the request that 
is open to the public for inspection.
    Northern Natural proposes to operate and maintain and existing 
delivery point to serve Bunge's plant near Council Bluffs, Mills 
County, Iowa. Northern Natural States that the Bunge Town Border 
Station (TBS) consists of approximately 1,800 feet of 6-inch diameter 
pipe and appurtenant facilities that Northern Natural would provide 
service to Bunge under Part 284 of the Commission's Regulations. 
Northern Natural would deliver up to 7,000 MMBtu of natural gas per day 
and up to 2,190,000 MMBtu annually to Bunge at the Bunge TBS. Northern 
Border states that its deliveries to Bunge are within its certificated 
entitlements. Northern Border also states that it originally paid the 
$384,000 construction cost for the Bunge TBS, but that the cost would 
be offset by the demand reservation fees to be paid by Bunge over time.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after the 
Commission has issued this notice, 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 allowed time, 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

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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 NGA.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-27607 Filed 10-14-98; 8:45 am]
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