4524 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 20 / Thursday, January 30, 1997 / Notices

County, Pennsylvania, on National’s

Line S–21. The maximum proposed

quantity of gas to be delivered through

the proposed facility would be up to 500

Mcf per day. This tap would provide

service to National Fuel Gas

Distribution Corporation, pursuant to

National’s EFT Rate Schedule. The

estimated cost of the sales tap is

$60,000, for which National would be

reimbursed.

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

and not withdrawn within 30 days after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.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2267 Filed 1–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. ER97–504–000 and OA97–32–

000]

Pacific Northwest Generating

Cooperative; Notice of Issuance of

Order

January 24, 1997.

Pacific Northwest Generating

Cooperative (PNGC) filed an application

for authorization to sell power at

market-based rates, and for certain

waivers and authorizations. In

particular, PNGC requested that the

Commission grant blanket approval

under 18 CFR Part 34 of all future

issuances of securities and assumptions

of liabilities by PNGC. On January 13,

1997, the Commission issued an Order

Conditionally Accepting For Filing

Market-Based Rates (Order), in the

above-docketed proceeding.

The Commission’s January 13, 1997

Order granted the request for blanket

approval under Part 34, subject to the

conditions found in Ordering

Paragraphs (D), (E), and (G):

(D) Within 30 days of the date of this

order, any person desiring to be heard

or to protest the Commission’s blanket

approval of issuances of securities or

assumptions of liabilities by PNGC

should file a motion to intervene or

protest with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, in

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214.

(E) Absent a request to be heard

within the period set forth in Ordering

Paragraph (D) above, PNGC is hereby

authorized to issue securities and

assume obligations and liabilities as

guarantor, endorser, surety or otherwise

in respect of any security of another

person; provided that such issue or

assumption is for some lawful object

within the corporate purposes of PNGC,

compatible with the public interest, and

reasonably necessary or appropriate for

such purposes.

(G) The Commission reserves the right

to modify this order to require a further

showing that neither public nor private

interests will be adversely affected by

continued Commission approval of

PNGC’s issuances of securities or

assumptions of liabilities * * *.

Notice is hereby given that the

deadline for filing motions to intervene

or protests, as set forth above, is

February 12, 1997.

Copies of the full text of the Order are

available from the Commission’s Public

Reference Branch, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2268 Filed 1–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. RP97–226–001]

Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of

Tariff Filing

January 24, 1997.

Take notice that on January 22, 1997,

Questar Pipeline Company (Questar)

tendered for filing as part of its FERC

Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 1,

the following tariff sheets to be effective

February 12, 1997, and May 1, 1997:

Tariff Sheets To Be Effective February 12,

1997

Substitute Second Revised Sheet No. 164

Substitute Original Sheet No. 170A

Tariff Sheet To Be Effective May 1, 1997

Third Revised Sheet No. 164

Questar states that the proposed tariff

sheets correct Second Revised Sheet No.

164, as tendered with the January 13

filing. Questar states further that this

correction necessitates the filing of all

tariff sheets identified above.

Questar states that a copy of this filing

has been served upon its customers, the

Public Service Commission of Utah and

the Wyoming Public Service

Commission.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rule 385.211

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211). All

such protests must be filed in

accordance with Section 154.210 of the

Commission’s Regulations. Protests will

be considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

Copies of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public

inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–2269 Filed 1–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP97–193–000]

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation; Notice of Application

January 24, 1997.

Take notice that on January 10, 1997,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation (Transco), P.O. Box 1396,

Houston, Texas 77251, filed in Docket

No. CP97–193–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural

Gas Act for authorization to expand an

existing delivery lateral to Piedmont

Natural Gas Company, Inc. (Piedmont)

in Lincoln and Catawaba Counties, NC.;

for approval of Transco’s’ initial

reservation rate surcharge for costs

associated with the delivery lateral; for

approval of the reservation rate

surcharge methodology; for

authorization to make filings under

Section 4 of the NGA; and to make

adjustments to the surcharge, all as

more fully set forth in the application

on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection.

Specifically, Transco proposes to

expand the lateral by (a) constructing

and operating approximately 17.77

miles of 16-inch pipeline loop on its

existing 10-inch Maiden Delivery

Lateral, thereby accommodating an

increase delivery of 38,000 dt/d of gas

to Piedmont through its existing

Lowesville Meter Station. Transco

estimates the cost of this expansion to

be $13,236,000, and that such expansion

would not create any detriment of

disadvantage to its other customers.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said