[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 26, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24462-24463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-10329]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-138-000]


Northwest Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

April 20, 2000.
    Take notice that on March 27, 2000 Northwest Natural Gas Company 
(NW Natural), 220 N.W. Second Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97209, filed in 
Docket No. CP00-138-000 an application pursuant to Section 7 of the 
Natural Gas Act and Section 284.224 of the Commission's Regulations for 
the issuance of a blanket certificate of public convenience and 
necessity authorizing NW Natural as a Hinshaw natural gas company to 
provide FERC jurisdictional storage and related transportation services 
in interstate commerce and approval of market-based rates, all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to pubic inspection.
    NW Natural, an Oregon corporation, states that it is an interstate 
gas distribution company serving retail customers via separate 
facilities located in the States of Oregon and Washington. NW Natural 
states that it is a public utility under statutes of Oregon and 
Washington and is subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utility

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Commission of Oregon and the Washington Utilities and Transportation 
Commission.
    NW Natural proposes to offer, pursuant to the blanket certificate, 
firm and interruptible storage and related transportation services, to 
be effective in the summer of 2000. Additionally, NW Natural requests, 
pursuant of Sections 284.122 and 284.123 of the Commission's 
regulations, approval of market-based rates. NW Natural asserts that 
its application includes a Market Power Analysis which demonstrates 
that market-based rates for NW Natural's services are fair and 
equitable.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before May 11, 2000, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 of 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.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules, a hearing will be held without further notice 
before the Commission on its designee on this application if no motion 
to intervene in 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 NW Natural to appear or to be represented at 
the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-10329 Filed 4-25-00; 8:45 am]
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