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construct 13,400 hp of compression at

one existing compressor station; and

• upgrade an existing interconnection

with Columbia.

The purpose of the facilities proposed

by Columbia would be to provide

506,795 dekatherms per day (Dth/d) of

additional firm transportation and

storage service to 23 customers. In order

to provide the proposed firm

entitlements to its customers, Columbia

proposes to lease 141,500 Dth/d of firm

capacity from Texas Eastern. The

facilities proposed by Texas Eastern are

needed to provide this delivery capacity

on a daily basis to Columbia.

The EA has been placed in the public

files of the FERC and is available for

public inspection at: Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Public

Reference and Files Maintenance

Branch, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208–1371.

Copies of the EA have been mailed to

Federal, state and local agencies, public

interest groups, interested individuals,

newspapers, and parties to this

proceeding.

Any person wishing to comment on

the EA may do so. Written comments

must reference Docket Nos. CP96–213–

000, –001, and –004 and CP96–559–000

and be addressed to: Office of the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, D.C. 20426.

Comments should be filed as soon as

possible, but must be received no later

than April 23, 1997, to ensure

consideration prior to a Commission

decision on this proposal.

Comments will be considered by the

Commission but will not serve to make

the commentor a party to the

proceeding. Any person seeking to

become a party to the proceeding must

file a motion to intervene pursuant to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures (18 CFR

385.214).

The date for filing timely motions to

intervene in this proceeding has passed.

Therefore, parties now seeking to file

late interventions must show good

cause, as required by Section

385.214(b)(3), why this time limitation

should be waived. Environmental issues

have been viewed as good cause for late

intervention. You do not need

intervenor status to have your

comments considered.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–7847 Filed 3–27–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP97–291–000]

Southern Natural Gas Company,

Destin Pipeline Company, L.L.C.;

Notice of Application

March 24, 1997.

Take notice that on March 14, 1997,

Southern Natural Gas Company

(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham,

Alabama 35202–2563, and Destin

Pipeline Company, L.L.C. (Destin), P.O.

Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama

35202–2563, filed in Docket No. CP97–

291–000 a joint application pursuant to

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

Act for a certificate of public

convenience and necessity to construct

and operate certain pipeline

measurement and related facilities in

Franklin, Attala and Jefferson Counties,

Mississippi; approval of Southern’s

abandonment of capacity by lease to

Destin and Destin’s acquisition thereof

and pregranted abandonment and

reacquisition of such capacity; and

approval of rolled-in rate treatment for

the capacity lease payments and

revenues and cost-of-service of the

proposed facilities, all as more fully set

forth in the application which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

Destin states that in related Docket

No. CP96–655–001, et al., Destin is

seeking authorization to construct, own

and operate one offshore platform, 76

miles of 36-inch offshore pipeline

facilities, 134 miles of 36-inch and 30-

inch onshore pipeline facilities, two

miles of 16-inch onshore pipeline

facilities, two onshore compression

facilities and related pipeline

interconnection, measurement and

appurtenant facilities, designed to

transport large quantities of natural gas

from deepwater areas and production

along the Destin Corridor to

downstream pipeline interconnections

in southern and central Mississippi.

Destin states that the Destin Pipeline

will extend in a northerly direction from

Main Pass Block 260, Gulf of Mexico, to

an onshore terminus at its

interconnection with Southern near

Enterprise, Mississippi. In addition to

Southern, Destin states that it will

physically interconnect with four other

interstate pipelines: Florida Gas

Transmission Corporation,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation, Tennessee Gas Pipeline

Company and Koch Gateway Pipeline

Company. In addition, related Docket

No. CP96–655–001, et al., provides for

two additional delivery points to Texas

Eastern Transmission Corporation

(Texas Eastern) in Mississippi.

Accordingly, in Docket No. CP97–291–

000, Southern and Destin propose for

Southern to lease capacity on its

pipeline system to Destin to enable

Destin to offer Texas Eastern as a

delivery point on its system.

It is stated that Southern has agreed

to lease to Destin, capacity on its

pipeline system to the extent necessary

to permit Destin to deliver up to 200

MMcf per day of natural gas (MMcfd)

from an interconnection to be

constructed between Destin’s proposed

pipeline system and Southern’s pipeline

at Southern’s existing Enterprise

compressor station in Clarke County,

Mississippi to Texas Eastern (a) on a

firm basis at a new meter station to be

constructed by Southern at an

interconnection with Texas Eastern on

Southern’s Cranfield-Gwinville Line in

Franklin County, Mississippi (Union

Church meter station) or (b) on an

interruptible basis at Southern’s existing

interconnection with Texas Eastern

downstream of Southern’s Pickens

compressor station on Southern’s North

Main Line in Attala County, Mississippi

(Kosciusko meter station). Southern

states that while it does not currently

have an agreement with Texas Eastern

for the proposed interconnection at the

Union Church meter station, Southern

will request such interconnection upon

receipt of the authorization requested

herein. It is stated that although

Southern will continue to own and

operate the facilities, Destin proposes to

render open access transportation

services to Destin’s shippers by means

of its leased capacity in Southern’s

system under the terms and conditions

of Destin’s FERC Gas Tariff, thus

providing Destin with a seamless

transportation service to its shippers

without constructing duplicative

facilities.

Southern requests authorization to

construct and install the Union Church

meter station in Franklin County,

Mississippi, which will consist of one

measurement station with dual 8-inch

rotary meters, including tap, metering

and appurtenant facilities, sized to

handle 200 MMcfd on Southern’s

Cranfield-Gwinville Line; to modify its

existing Gwinville compressor station

on Southern’s Franklin-Gwinville Lines

in Jefferson County, Mississippi, to

allow 200 MMcfd to flow west from

Gwinville to the Union Church meter

station; and to modify to its existing

Kosciusko meter station on Southern’s

Second North Main Line, Attala County,

Mississippi, to expand the delivery

capacity into Texas Eastern to 200

MMcfd. It is stated that the total

estimated cost of the facilities to be

constructed is $1.7 million.
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The applicants state that in exchange

for Southern’s lease of capacity to

permit Destin’s delivery of 200 MMcfd

to Texas Eastern, Destin will pay

Southern $246,500 per year, for a total

of $4,930,000 over the twenty-year term

of the lease. The applicants also request

pregranted abandonment and

reacquisition authorization upon

termination of the Capacity Lease

Agreement, with the reacquisition to be

at no cost to Southern.

Southern proposes in its next Section

4 rate proceeding to roll-in its cost of

service for the proposed facilities and

the revenue from the capacity lease

payments and requests that the

Commission approve such rate

treatment. Destin also requests

authorization for its lease payments

made to Southern to be treated on a

rolled-in basis with its cost of service

proposed in Docket No. CP96–655–001,

et al. Southern states that there will be

no rate impact on Southern’s current

shippers as a result of rolling-in the cost

of service of the proposed facilities

because the estimated revenues

generated from the lease payments

received from Destin will equal the

estimated cost of service of the proposed

facilities on a net present value basis.

Destin estimates that the rate impact of

rolling-in the lease payments to

Southern will be less than 1 percent. In

addition, the applicants state that there

will be financial and operational

benefits to be realized from the lease

arrangements and proposed facilities.

Specifically, the applicants request

authorization for the following actions:

(1) for Southern to construct, install and

operate (a) a new meter station at an

interconnection with Texas Eastern on

Southern’s Cranfield-Gwinville Line in

Franklin County, Mississippi, (b)

modification to Southern’s existing

Gwinville compressor station in

Jefferson County, Mississippi, (c)

modification to Southern’s existing

Kosciusko meter station in Attala

County, Mississippi; (2) for Southern to

abandon by lease, and Destin to acquire,

capacity on Southern’s system to the

extent necessary to permit Destin to

deliver 200 MMcfd of natural gas to

Texas Eastern on a firm basis at the

Union Church meter station or on an

interruptible basis at the Kosciusko

meter station; (3) authorization for

Southern to charge Destin lease

payments in an amount designed to

collect the incremental cost of service of

the proposed facilities over the 20-year

term of the Lease Agreement on a

present value basis; (4) a determination

that the costs attributable to the

proposed facilities and the revenues

attributable to the lease payments

received shall be included in Southern’s

cost of service and revenues on a rolledin basis in any future rate proceedings;

(5) a determination that in any rate

proceeding concerning Southern’s

transportation rates, the revenue

responsibility of the capacity lease

services proposed in this application

shall be limited to that collected by

charging the lease payments authorized

herein and no additional costs shall be

allocated to these services during the

term of the Lease Agreement; (6) a

determination that the lease payments

made by Destin to Southern shall be

included in Destin’s cost of service on

a rolled-in basis in any future rate

proceeding; and (7) pre-granted

abandonment and reacquisition of the

leased capacity upon termination of the

Capacity Lease Agreement between the

parties.

The applicants request an order by

June 1, 1997, which is the date by which

Destin has requested a Preliminary

Determination on Non-environmental

Matters in related Docket No. CP96–

655–001, et al. so that the proposed

pipeline project and the facilities

proposed herein can be placed in

service by July 1, 1998.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before April

14, 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 18 CFR 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

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 Southern and Destin to

appear or be represented at the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–7848 Filed 3–27–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. EL97–30–000, et al.]

South Carolina Electric & Gas

Company, et al.; Electric Rate and

Corporate Regulation Filings

March 21, 1997.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. South Carolina Electric & Gas

Company

[Docket No. EL97–30–000]

Take notice that on March 12, 1997,

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company

(SCE&G), filed a Petition for Declaratory

Order that SCE&G is not required to

provide certain transmission service to

the City of Orangeburg, South Carolina.

Comment date: April 11, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

2. Entergy Services, Inc.

[Docket No. EL97–31–000]

Take notice that on March 13, 1997,

Entergy Services, Inc. (Entergy

Services), on behalf of Entergy

Arkansas, Inc., tendered for filing a

Petition for Declaratory Order and

Exercise of Jurisdiction seeking

Commission resolution of a dispute over

the interpretation of an Entergy

Arkansas, Inc. wholesale power

agreement.

Comment date: April 11, 1997, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph E

at the end of this notice.

3. El Paso Energy Marketing, Inc.

[Docket No. ER96–118–007]

Take notice that on March 13, 1997,

El Paso Energy Marketing, Inc. tendered

for filing a Notice of Change in Status.

4. Soyland Power Cooperative, Inc.

[Docket No. ER96–2973–000]

Take notice that on February 21, 1997,

Soyland Power Cooperative, Inc.

(Soyland), tendered for filing a rate

schedule change pursuant to Section

205 of the Federal Power Act and

Section 35.13 of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (Commission)

Regulations. The filing consists of a rate