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Specifically, Northern proposes to

delay abandonment of certain

compressor station facilities at its

Owatonna compressor station and is

requesting that the certificate issued in

Docket No. CP96–57–000 be amended to

authorize the continued operation of the

Owatonna compressor facilities until its

Peak Day 2000 certificate application

pending Commission approval in

Docket No. CP97–25–000 is granted and

the new Owatonna compressor facilities

proposed therein are installed.

Northern states that allowing it to

continue to operate the Owatonna units

also provides backup on the system

should other horsepower on the system

go down due to routine or non-routine

maintenance and notes that Northern

would avoid the costs to abandon these

units at this time.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before April

18, 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 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 Northern to appear or

be represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8464 Filed 4–2–97; 8:45 am]

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Pacific Gas Transmission Company;

Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC

Gas Tariff

[Docket No. RP97–299–000]

March 28, 1997.

Take notice that on March 26, 1997,

Pacific Gas Transmission Company

(PGT) tendered for filing as part of its

FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume

No. 1–A: Second Revised Sheet Nos. 37

through 39 and First Revised Sheet No.

40. PGT requested the above-referenced

tariff sheets become effective April 26,

1997.

PGT asserts that the purpose of this

filing is to modify the methodology used

for allocating capacity in its parking and

lending services (Rate Schedules PS–1

and AIS–1, respectively) from a firstcome, first-served methodology to an

economic dispatch methodology, with

pro-rata allocation as a tie-breaker.

PGT further states that a copy of this

filing has been served on PGT’s

jurisdictional customers and interested

state regulatory agencies.

Any person desiring to be heard or

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission,

Washington, D.C. 20426, in accordance

with Sections 385.214 and 385.211 of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure. All such motions or protests

must be filed as provided in Section

154.210 of the Commission’s

Regulations. 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. Any person wishing to

become a party must file a motion to

intervene. 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. 97–8469 Filed 4–2–97; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. CP97–304–000]

Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of

Application

March 28, 1997.

Take notice that on March 24, 1997,

Questar Pipeline Company (Questar), 79

South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah

84111, filed in Docket No. CP97–304–

000 an application pursuant to Section

7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, for

permission and approval to abandon, a

compressor and related facilities located

at the Horseshoe Draw Compressor

Station in Sweetwater County,

Wyoming, all as more fully set forth in

the application on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Questar requests authority to abandon

one 1,085 horsepower gas turbine

compressor, the Horseshoe Draw

compressor, and associated flow-control

and automation equipment, two 24

MMcf/d dehydration units, two

generator sets, a 2 MMBtu/d line heater

and miscellaneous valves, yard and

station piping located at the junction of

Questar’s Jurisdictional Lateral No. 6

and Questar’s Main Line No. 22 in

southwestern Wyoming. It is indicated

that those facilities have not been used

during the past five years.

Questar states that, upon receipt of

the requested abandonment authority,

the Horseshoe Draw compressor will be

physically removed from its present

location, restaged and installed at

Questar’s existing Nightingale-KandaColeman Compressor Complex also

located in Sweetwater County,

Wyoming. (Questar indicates its intent

to install the Horseshoe Draw

compressor at the Nightingale Station

pursuant to 18 CFR 2.55(b). It is stated

that related flow control and automation

equipment will also be relocated to the

Nightingale-Kanda-Coleman

Compressor Complex, while the balance

of the facilities at Questar’s Horseshoe

Compressor site will be abandoned,

physically removed and scrapped. It is

stated that the gross book and net book

value of the facilities to be abandoned,

total $782,570 and $457,804

respectively.

Further, Questar explains that the

removal of the above-described facilities

will have no adverse impact on

transmission services provided by

Questar. Questar asserts that its

abandonment project does not

constitute a major Federal action that

could significantly affect the quality of

the human environment, since all

principal facilities to be removed are

skid-mounted, and all abandonment

activities will take place within the

confines of the existing Horseshoe Draw

Compressor Station yard.

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,

DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a
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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

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 Questar to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8465 Filed 4–2–97; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. CP97–303–000]

Texas Gas Transmission Corp.; Notice

of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

March 28, 1997.

Take notice that on March 24, 1997,

Texas Gas Transmission Corporation

(Texas Gas), P.O. Box 20008,

Owensboro, Kentucky 42304, filed in

the above docket, a request pursuant to

Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of the

Commission’s Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (N.A.) (18 CFR 157.205

and 157.212) for authorization to

construct and operate a new delivery

point in Gibson County, Indiana, for

Southern Indiana Gas and Electric

Company (SIGECO), a local distribution

company, under Texas Gas’ blanket

certificate issued in Docket No. CP82–

407–000 pursuant to Section 7 of the

NGA, all as more fully set forth in the

request which is filed with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Texas Gas states that the proposed

delivery point will be known as the

Toyota-Ft. Branch Delivery Point and

will be located on Texas Gas’

Slaughters-Montezuma System in

Gibson County, Indiana. Texas Gas

states that this new delivery point will

enable SIGECO to receive natural gas to

be delivered by Texas Gas for the

account of a new customer, Toyota

Motor Manufacturing North America,

Inc. (Toyota).

Texas Gas states that it will install,

own, operate and maintain two side

valves with 6-inch tie-over piping on its

Slaughters-Montezuma 12-inch and 20-

inch Lines and a dual 3-inch meter

station with electronic flow

measurement, telemetry and related

facilities to be located on a site to be

acquired by SIGECO, all near Mile 55 on

Texas Gas’ Slaughters-Montezuma

System. Texas Gas states that the

estimated costs of the facilities is

$136,975 and SIGECO will reimburse

Texas Gas for the cost of the facilities to

be installed by Texas Gas.

This service will be provided by

Texas Gas pursuant to the authority of

its blanket certificate issued in Docket

No. CP88–686–000 and section 284.223

of the Commission’s Regulations.

Texas Gas states that since no increase

in contract quantities has been

requested by SIGECO and because

Toyota intends to utilize existing

mainline capacity on Texas Gas’ system,

the above proposal will have no

significant effect on Texas Gas’ peak day

and annual deliveries, and service

through this point can be accomplished

without detriment to Texas Gas’ other

customers.

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to

intervene or notice of intervention and

pursuant to Section 157.205 of the

Regulations under the Natural Gas Act

(18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the

request. If no protest is filed within the

time allowed therefor, the proposed

activity is deemed to be authorized

effective on the day after the time

allowed for filing a protest. If a protest

is filed and not withdrawn within 30

days after the time allowed for filing a

protest, the instant request shall be

treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–8463 Filed 4–2–97; 8:45 am]

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[Docket No. MT97–7–000]

Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline

Company; Notice of Compliance Filing

March 28, 1997.

Take notice that on March 25, 1997,

Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline

Company (Williston Basin), tendered for

filing to become part of its FERC Gas

Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1

and First Revised Volume No. 1–A,

revised tariff sheets, with a proposed

effective date of March 25, 1997.

Williston Basin states that the instant

filing includes revised tariff sheets to

reflect changes in shared operating

personnel and facilities as a result of

Prairielands Energy Marketing, Inc.,

(Prairielands) which had been a whollyowned subsidiary of Centennial Energy

Holdings, Inc., the parent of Williston

Basin, becoming a wholly-owned

subsidiary of Williston Basin as of

January 1, 1997. In addition, Williston

Basin states that Prairielands has been

designated as an agent by Williston

Basin to manage and develop Williston

Basin’s gas production reserves and

appurtenant facilities.

Williston Basin also states that the

revised tariff sheets reflect that on

January 1, 1997, WBI Gas Services Co.

(WBI–Gas), Williston Basin’s merchant

sales division, was renamed WBI

Production (WBI–Prod).

In addition, Williston Basin states that

it has revised Sheet No. 188 of its FERC

Gas Tariff, Second Revised Volume No.

1 to reflect the deletion of the Baker

District Office in Baker, Montana from

the list of locations which have possible

shared personnel occupying office space

in the same building as Williston Basin

personnel.

Williston Basin states that it will

continue to comply with the Standards

of Conduct for Interstate Pipelines with

Marketing Affiliates as established

under Order No. 566, et seq., and in

Section 161.3 of the Commission’s

Regulations. In accordance with Section

161.3(g) of the Commission’s

Regulations, Williston Basin’s operating

employees and the operating employees

of Prairielands will function

independently of one another to the

maximum extent practicable.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest said filing should file a motion

to intervene or protest with the Federal