[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 205 (Thursday, October 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55230-55231]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28034]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP90-2158-004]


Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice of Application To Amend 
Order

October 17, 1997.
    Take notice that on October 10, 1997, Northwest Pipeline 
Corporation (Northwest), 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84108, 
filed in Docket No. CP90-2158-004, an application under Sections 7 (b) 
and (c) of the Natural Gas

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Act to amend its existing certificate and abandonment authorizations to 
grant a three-year extension beyond the currently authorized April 30, 
1998 expiration date, until April 30, 2001, all as more fully set forth 
in the application which is on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    Specifically, Northwest requests authorization for:
    (1) A limited-term, partial abandonment of Northwest's Rate 
Schedule SGS-1 storage service for The Washington Water Power Company 
(Water Power), corresponding to a limited-term release of the Jackson 
Prairie storage capacity by Water Power to Cascade Natural Gas 
Corporation (Cascade); and
    (2) A limited-term certificate of public convenience and necessity, 
with pregranted abandonment, authorizing Northwest to provide 
additional Rate Schedule SGS-1 storage service for Cascade in place of 
the temporarily abandoned SGS-1 service for Water Power.
    Northwest states that under an agreement dated July 23, 1990 and 
amended April 28, 1995 (Release Agreement), Water Power released 
480,000 Dth of storage capacity, 15,000 Dth per day of firm 
deliverability and 5,533 Dth per day of best-efforts deliverability to 
Cascade for a limited term expiring April 30, 1998. Northwest further 
states that consistent with the release, Northwest was authorized to 
correspondingly reduce its existing Rate Schedule SGS-1 storage service 
obligations to Water Power and to provide replacement Rate Schedule 
SGS-1 storage service to Cascade for a limited term expiring on April 
30, 1998.
    Northwest explains that Water Power and Cascade have agreed to 
extend the storage release for an additional three years pursuant to a 
July 30, 1997 amendment to the Release Agreement. Northwest states that 
superseding Rate Schedule SGS-1 storage service agreements have been 
executed with both Water Power and Cascade to reflect this three-year 
extension.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before November 7, 1997, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
NE, 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 Regulations under the 
NGA (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 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 Northwest to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-28034 Filed 10-22-97; 8:45 am]
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