[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 38270]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-15482]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-382-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

June 14, 2000.
    Take notice that on June 9, 2000, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), Post Office Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 
25325-1273 in Docket No. CP00-382-000 an application, as supplemented 
on September 28, 1999, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 
to permit Columbia to use firm capacity on Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee) and National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation (National 
Fuel), all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file 
with the Commission and open to public inspection. This filing may be 
viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-
2222).
    Columbia proposes to use firm capacity on Tennessee of up to 10,000 
dt per day from Unionville, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to Highland, 
Elk County, Pennsylvania, and to use firm capacity on National Fuel of 
6,608 dt per day from Ellwood City, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, to 
Lewis Run, McKean County, Pennsylvania, both for a primary term 
beginning November 1, 2000, and ending October 31, 2004, with an 
evergreen provision.
    It is stated that, by order issued November 12, 1999, in Docket No. 
CP99-625-000, Columbia was permitted to acquire up to 16,476 dt of firm 
capacity on Tennessee from Broad Run, Kanawha County, West Virginia to 
Highland, Elk County, Pennsylvania for a period beginning October 1, 
1999, and ending March 31, 2000. Columbia indicates it required the 
firm capacity while it evaluated whether or not to replace portions of 
its Lines 1818 and 1862. Columbia states that it has now determined 
that it is more economical to acquire capacity on a long term basis 
from Tennessee and National Fuel than repair or replace the two 
pipelines. Columbia states that it will recover the costs associated 
with the Tennessee and National Fuel capacity in a subsequent 
Transportation Cost Recovery Adjustment filing.
    Columbia also states that it will file an application to abandon 
the portions of Lines 1818 and 1862 located between the Renova 
Compressor Station and Smethport in the near future.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before July 5, 2000, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 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 Regulation 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 the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this application 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 and permission for abandonment 
are 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 to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-15482 Filed 6-19-00; 8:45 am]
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