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(call 202–208–2222) for assistance.

Answers to the complaint shall also be

due on or before October 26, 2000.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26617 Filed 10–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP01–01–000]

Colorado Interstate Gas Company;

Notice of Application

October 11, 2000.

Take notice that on October 2, 2000,

Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG),

P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs,

Colorado 80944, filed in Docket No.

CP01–001–000 an application pursuant

to Sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural

Gas Act (NGA) and the Commission’s

Rules and Regulations for a certificate of

public convenience and necessity

authorizing CIG to construct and operate

facilities and for authority to abandon

certain facilities and base gas in order

to: (i) Increase the deliverability of CIG’s

Storage Pool, and (ii) increase the

capacity of its system southward out of

the Cheyenne Compressor Station in

Weld County, Colorado, all as more

fully set forth in the application which

is on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection. The filing may be

viewed at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/

rims.htm (call 202–208–222 for

assistance).

CIG states that Public Service

Company of Colorado (PSCo) a local

distribution company that serves the

Denver metropolitan area, requires the

deliverability and transportation

capacity to replace deliverability lost by

PSCo’s pending abandonment of its

Leyden Underground Natural Gas

Storage Facility (Leyden) and to meet

requirements for additional

transportation capacity. In addition, CIG

states that other transportation shippers

have requested new services from CIG.

Specifically, CIG proposes to increase

the working gas capacity and increase

deliverability at the Fort Morgan Storage

Field in Morgan County, Colorado by:

• Drilling one injection/withdrawal

well (#34) and converting one

observation well to a salt water disposal

well (#18) with associated gathering and

appurtenant facilities.

• Upgrading the two segments of the

Fort Morgan Storage field gathering

system from MAOPs of 1,800 psig and

2,000 psig to a single MAOP of 2,160

psig through hydrostatic testing and

replacement of underrated equipment.

• Increasing the maximum allowed

stored gas in place from 14,322 Mmcf to

14,858 Mmcf and increasing the average

shut-in reservoir bottom hole pressure

to a maximum of 2,390 psia.

• Converting 600 MMcf of base gas to

working gas through modification of

piping at the Fort Morgan Compressor

Station.

CIG also proposes to abandon the

Keyes Sand Reservoir and its associated

base gas at the Boehm Storage Field in

Morton County, Kansas and requests

any necessary authority to sell the base

gas. Specifically, CIG proposes to:

• Recomplete four injection/

withdrawal wells from the Keyes

Reservoir formation to the G reservoir

formation and convert eight Keyes

injection/withdrawal wells to

observation wells with all associated

gathering and appurtenant facilities.

• Install a 600 horsepower leased

compressor unit in late summer 2002,

along with hydrogen sulfide treatment

and appurtenant facilities, to remove

Keyes Reservoir base gas. The

compressor will be used until such time

as the pressure in the Keyes Sand

Reservoir is too low to be effectively

utilized. CIG will then abandon the

compressor and attach the Keyes

injection/withdrawal wells, utilized for

depleting the reservoir, to the low

pressure Greenwood Gathering system

until the reservoir pressure is too low to

produce any additional volumes. CIG

anticipates that the reservoir will be

depleted by 2006. CIG requests pregranted abandonment authority for the

600 horsepower compressor unit and

proposes to defer any issue concerning

the treatment of revenues resulting from

the sale of the base gas until its next rate

case to be filed by the end of March,

2001.

In order to increase its mainline

capacity south of the Cheyenne

Compressor Station, CIG proposes to:

• Construct 26.2 miles of 24-inch

diameter pipeline loop and appurtenant

facilities commencing at CIG’s existing

Cheyenne Compressor Station in Weld

County, Colorado and extending

southward to terminate at CIG’s existing

Ault Meter Station in Weld County,

Colorado. CIG also proposes to install an

additional meter station at the Cheyenne

Compressor Station.

• Construct the new Fort Lupton

Compressor Station consisting of three

nameplate rated 2,225 horsepower

natural gas fired reciprocating

compressor units and appurtenant

facilities in Weld County, Colorado.

• Construct 27 miles of 24-inch

diameter pipeline loop and appurtenant

facilities commencing at the proposed

Fort Lupton Compressor Station in

Weld County, Colorado and extending

southward to CIG’s existing Watkins

Compressor Station in Adams County,

Colorado.

• Install miscellaneous facilities

under 18 CFR 2.55(a) within the

Watkins Compressor Station Yard,

including yard piping, pipe valves,

fittings, controls, regulation and

measurement.

CIG states that the above listed

modifications to its system will increase

CIG’s Storage Pool deliverability from

775 MMcf to 877 MMcf per day and

allow CIG to transport 87.6 MMcf per

day southward from the Cheyenne

Compressor Station and an additional

61.9 MMcf per day southward from Fort

Lupton Compressor Station. CIG asserts

that the project is supported by firm

agreements for almost all of the

capacity. CIG estimates that the project

will cost $58,180,300 and proposes

rolled-in rate treatment for the project.

Any questions regarding this

application should be directed to James

R. West, Manager, Certificates, at (719)

520–4679, Colorado Interstate Gas

Company, P.O. Box 1087, Colorado

Springs, Colorado 80944.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest with reference to said

application should on or before

November 1, 2000, file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

(Commission), 888 First Street, NE,

Washington, DC 20426, a motion to

intervene or protest in accordance with

the requirements of the Commission’s

Rules of Practices and Procedure (18

CFR 385.211 and 385.214) and the

regulations under the Natural Gas Act

(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 in any proceeding

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

maintained by the Secretary of the

Commission and will receive copies of

all documents issued by the

Commission, filed by the applicant, or

filed by all other 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 serve

copies of comments or any other filing

it makes with the Commission to every

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other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as filing an original and 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 such 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

Commission by Section 7 and 15 of the

NGA 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 CIG to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26553 Filed 10–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP01–2–000]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Application

October 11, 2000.

Take notice that on October 4, 2000,

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

(Columbia), P.O. Box 1273, Charleston,

West Virginia 25325–1273, filed in

Docket No. CP01–2–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural

Gas (NGA) for permission and approval

to abandon by sale, five natural gas

storage fields located in various

counties of West Virginia and Ohio.

Columbia further requests authorization

to abandon by sale the base gas in those

fields, 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.fed.us/

online/rims.htm (call 202–208–2222 for

assistance).

Columbia states that at the time of

application, the purchasing parties are

unknown and Columbia proposes to

notify the Commission of the

purchaser’s identity within ten (10) days

of signing a Purchase and Sale

Agreement. Columbia further states that

it does not propose the abandonment of

service to any customer as a result of the

Sale. It is said that no new or expanded

services are proposed, nor is any

construction or expansion of Columbia’s

facilities proposed in connection with

the sale.

Any person desiring to be heard or

any person desiring to make any

protests with reference to said

application should on or before

November 1, 2000, file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888

First Street, NE., 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

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 permission and

approval for the proposed 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.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26552 Filed 10–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. ES01–3–000]

MDU Resources Group, Inc.; Notice of

Application

October 10, 2000.

Take notice that on October 4, 2000,

MDU Resources Group, Inc. (MDU

Resources) submitted an application

pursuant to section 204 of the Federal

Power Act seeking authorization to

issue a combination of securities not to

exceed in the aggregate $750,000,000

and not to exceed the following

amounts:

(1) $750,000,000 of common stock;

(2) $112,500,000 of preferred stock;

(3) $225,000,000 of New Mortgage

Bonds, Senior Notes, debentures,

subordinated debentures, and/or

guarantees from time to time;

(4) $225,000,000 of stock purchase

contracts, stock purchase units, and/or

warrants; and

(5) $225,000,000 of other securities,

including hybrid securities or hybrid

securities guaranties.

MDU Resources seeks authorization to

vary the issuance amount for each of the

above types of securities as long as the

aggregate amount of MDU Resources’

securities issued does not exceed

$750,000,000. The securities are

proposed to be issued from time to time

over a two-year period.

MDU Resources seeks a waiver of the

Commission’s competitive bidding and