[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 26 (Friday, February 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5814-5815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3035]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-671-001]


National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; Notice of Application

February 3, 1997.
    Take notice that on January 30, 1996, National Fuel Gas Supply 
Corporation (National Fuel), 10 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, New York 
14203, filed an amendment to its application in Docket No. CP96-671-000 
pursuant to Sections 7(b) and (c) of the Natural Gas Act for a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing the 
construction and operation of facilities in order to create additional 
firm transportation capacity of 48,000 Dth per day from the Niagara 
import point to the interconnection between National Fuel and 
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco) at Leidy and 
Wharton, Pennsylvania, (1997 Niagara Expansion Project), and permission 
and approval to abandon certain facilities, all as more fully set forth 
in the application which is on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    National Fuel States that the purpose of the amendment is to: (1) 
revise the horsepower and other specifications of the proposed new 
compressor unit at the Ellisburg Compressor Station; (2) submit the 
Precedent Agreement between National Fuel and Union Pacific Fuels, Inc. 
for the remaining 3,656 Dth/d of unsubscribed firm winter capacity; and 
(3) request authorization to replace the meter facilities at the 
Strickler Road Station.
    National Fuel proposes to install a high speed compressor with 
3,200 hp at its Ellisburg Compressor Station instead of the originally 
proposed 2,250 Cooper GMVH-10 compressor, because the latter is no 
longer available. National Fuel also states that the change in the 
proposed Ellisburg compressor unit is not anticipated to have any 
significant impact on the cost of the project.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said amendment should on or before February 13, 1997, 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 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 of Practice and procedure, a hearing will be 
held

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with further notice before the Commission or its designee on this 
application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required 
herein, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that 
permission and approval for the proposed certificate and 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 National Fuel to appear to be represented at 
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-3035 Filed 2-6-97; 8:45 am]
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