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and RM87–34–072 issued February 27,

1997, to revise the right of first refusal

contract term to five years.

TCP states that copies of the filing

were served upon TCP’s jurisdictional

customers, interested public bodies and

all parties to the proceedings.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to this

filing 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). All such motions or protests

must be filed in accordance with

Section 154.210 of the Commission’s

Regulations. All such motions or

protests filed with the Commissions 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 petition to intervene

or protest in accordance with the

Commission Rules. Copies of this filing

are on file with the Commission and are

available for public inspection.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23145 Filed 8–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP97–626–000]

Texas Eastern Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Application

August 26, 1997.

Take notice that on July 10, 1997

Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation

(Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court,

Houston, Texas 77056–5310, filed in

Docket No. CP97–626–000 an

abbreviated application pursuant to

Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act to

increase the capacity of its Lebanon

Lateral facility. Texas Eastern seeks

authorization to construct, install, own,

operate and maintain certain

compression facilities at its existing Gas

City Compressor Station located in

Grant County, Indiana (Gas City) and at

its existing Glen Karn meter station in

Darke County, Ohio (Glen Karn), and

certain other ancillary and appurtenant

above-ground facilities. Such additional

compression will increase Texas

Eastern’s capacity in the Lebanon

Lateral by 302,290 Dth/d, up to a new

total of 661,510 Dth/d (650 MMcf/d

equivalent).

Specifically, Texas Eastern proposes

to install 8,900 HP of compression at

Gas City. Texas Eastern will install one

reciprocating gas engine rated at 3,400

HP and one reciprocating gas engine

rated at 5,500 HP. This additional

compression will increase the total

compression at Gas City from 3,400 HP

to 12,300 HP. In addition, to

accommodate the additional compressor

units, Texas Eastern will expand the

existing Gas City compressor buildings

and install associated ancillary facilities

and piping. All of the proposed facilities

at Gas City will be located wholly

within and on Texas Eastern’s existing

Gas City Compressor Station property.

Texas Eastern also proposes to install

a new 8,170 HP gas turbine-driven

centrifugal compressor at its existing

Glen Karn meter station site. Currently

there are no compression facilities

located at the Glen Karn station. To

house this proposed compressor unit,

Texas Eastern will construct compressor

station buildings and associated

ancillary facilities and piping. In

addition, Texas Eastern proposes to

upgrade its existing metering stations at

Glen Karn and at Lebanon in Warren

County, Ohio.

The estimated total capital cost of the

proposed facilities is approximately

$31,291,000. Texas Eastern proposes to

commence service utilizing the new

facilities on or before November 1, 1998.

Texas Eastern also requests

authorization to file a limited NGA

Section 4 proceeding, after receipt of the

authorizations requested and prior to

the in-service date of the proposed

facilities, to revise and restate the rates

applicable to Texas Eastern’s Part 284,

open-access Rate Schedules LLFT and

LLIT. Such revised and restated Rate

Schedule LLFT rates result in a base

Reservation Charge of $3.466 per Dth

and Usage-1 rate of $0.0023, $0.1163 on

a 100% load factor basis. In addition,

the revised and restated Rate Schedule

LLFT base rate will be $0.1163. These

revised and restated rates represent a

23% reduction, on a 100% load factor

basis, in the currently effective

maximum Rate Schedules LLFT and

LLIT rates.

Texas Eastern proposes to revise the

existing fuel shrinkage percentages

applicable to Rate Schedules LLFT and

LLIT to recognize the fuel associated

with the facilities. Texas Eastern has

calculated the estimated fuel usage of

the existing compression at Gas City and

the proposed facilities based on

historical utilization to arrive at an

estimated annual fuel shrinkage

percentage of 0.43%.

Texas Eastern intends to use all of the

additional capacity to be made available

by the Facilities to lease capacity on a

firm basis to Spectrum Interstate

Pipeline Corporation (‘‘Spectrum’’), a

wholly owned subsidiary of PanEnergy

Corporation and affiliate of Texas

Eastern. Texas Eastern has included in

its application, a letter of intent with

Spectrum whereby Spectrum intends to

enter into a lease for the increase of

capacity of 302,290 Dth/d. Subject to

Commission approval, Spectrum will be

a new interstate pipeline company that

will provide open-access transportation

service. The Spectrum Project will

provide natural gas transportation from

the Chicago area to Northeast markets

such as New York City, Philadelphia,

Newark, New Jersey and other markets

served by the Duke Energy pipelines.

Texas Eastern states that,

notwithstanding the foregoing, its

proposal is not contingent upon the

Spectrum Project. To the extent that all

of the capacity, to be made available by

the proposed facilities, is not leased to

Spectrum, Texas Eastern will make such

capacity available under the terms and

conditions of its Rate Schedules LLFT

and LLIT. To the extent Texas Eastern

does not have firm contractual

arrangements for the capacity to be

made available by the proposed

facilities before construction of such

facilities, Texas Eastern states that it

will be ‘‘at-risk’’ for recovery of such

costs.

By supplements dated August 5, and

25, 1997, Texas Eastern submitted two

service agreements, a precedent

agreement and a letter of intent. These

four documents account for 101,805

Dth/d of the proposed capacity.

Any person desiring to participate in

the hearing process or to make any

protest with reference to said

application should on or before

September 16, 1997, file with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

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 or 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 proceedings. 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.

A person obtaining intervenor status

will be placed on the service list
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maintained by the Secretary of the

Commission and will receive copies of

all documents filed by the applicant and

by every one of the intervenors. An

intervenor can file for rehearing of any

Commission order and can petition for

court review of any such order.

However, an intervenor must submit

copies of comments or any other filing

it makes with the Commission to every

other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as 14 copies with the Commission.

A person does not have to intervene,

however, in order to have comments

considered. A person, instead, may

submit two copies of comments to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Commenters will be placed on the

Commission’s environmental mailing

list, will receive copies of

environmental documents and will be

able to participate in meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Commenters will not be required to

serve copies of filed documents on all

other parties. However, commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

filed by other parties or issued by the

Commission and will not have the right

to seek rehearing or appeal the

Commission’s final order to a federal

court.

The Commission will consider all

comments and concerns equally,

whether filed by commenters or those

requesting intervenor status.

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 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 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 Texas Eastern to appear

or be represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23138 Filed 8–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP95–197–029]

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation; Notice of Refund Report

August 26, 1997.

Take notice that on June 27, 1997,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation (Transco) tendered for

filing a refund report ($79,016,114.33 in

principal and interest) showing that on

May 30, 1997, Transco submitted

refunds (or surcharges) to all affected

shippers in the proceedings in Docket

Nos. RP95–197, IN89–1–002, and RP92–

137–044. In determining the total

amount to be refunded (or surcharged)

to each shipper, Transco states that it

has aggregated the individual shipper

amounts attributable to each

proceeding.

Transco states that an uncontested

Stipulation and Agreement (Partial

Settlement) approved by Commission

letter order issued November 1, 1996 in

Docket No. RP95–197 et al., resolves a

number of rate and tariff issues in Phase

II of Transco’s general section 4 rate

proceeding in Docket No. RP95–197 et

al. The issues resolved in the settlement

include Transco’s cost of service,

throughput level and mix, cost of

classification, rate design, and certain

issues related to the terms and

conditions of Transco’s services, as well

as all issues in Docket Nos. RP96–44

and CP95–737.

Transco further states that based on

the Settlement it has calculated storage

and transportation refunds for the

period September 1, 1995 (the beginning

of the Docket No. RP95–197 rate period)

through July 31, 1996 based on the

difference between the amounts billed

and amounts calculated utilizing

settlement rates.

In addition, pursuant to a Stipulation

and Consent Agreement (Docket No.

IN89–1–002) approved by the

Commission on April 4, 1997, Transco

is to refund to its rate payers $51,788.51.

The refund is to be distributed to

Transco’s shippers proportional to their

pro rata share of the rate refunds under

the aforementioned Settlement in

Docket No. RP95–197.

Finally, Transco states that the

January 23, 1997, order in Docket No.

RP92–137–044 required it to

redistribute excess IT amount of

$17,815,888.52 to its interruptible

transportation shippers that were

previously refunded only to firm

shippers. The Commission on May 14,

1997, approved Transco’s proposal to

refund this amount pursuant to the

Settlement in Docket No. RP95–197.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Section

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such protests should be

filed on or before September 3, 1997.

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 in the

Public Reference Room.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23143 Filed 8–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP97–516–001]

Transwestern Pipeline Company;

Notice of Application

August 26, 1997.

Take notice that on August 22, 1997,

Transwestern Pipeline Company

(Transwestern), 1111 South 103rd

Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124, filed in

Docket No. CP97–516–001, pursuant to

Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act and

Part 157 of the Commission’s

regulations, seeking to amend its

application filed in Docket No. CP97–

516–000 on May 19, 1997. In that

application Transwestern sought

authorization to: (1) construct and

operate a new compressor station near

Standing Rock, New Mexico (Standing

Rock Compressor Station) consisting of

a 15,000 ISO rated horsepower gas

turbine compressor and appurtenant

facilities, located on Transwestern’s San

Juan Lateral in McKinley County, New

Mexico; and (2) construct and operate

an additional 2,000 ISO rated

horsepower electric compressor unit

and appurtenant facilities at

Transwestern’s existing La Plata ‘‘A’’

Compressor Station in La Plata County,

Colorado. In its amendment,

Transwestern seeks authorization to

construct and operate a 7,000 ISO rated

horsepower turbine drive centrifugal

compressor at the La Plata ‘‘A’’

Compressor Station, in lieu of the 2,000

horsepower unit proposed in the

original application, all as more fully set

forth in the amendment which is on file