[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 106 (Wednesday, June 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 30217]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-14630]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-554-000]


Northwest Pipeline Corporation; Notice of Application

May 28, 1998.
    Take notice that on May 15, 1998, Northwest Pipeline Corporation, 
(Northwest) 295 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158, filed in 
Docket No. CP98-554-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act for authorization to construct and operate new, 
upgraded or modified facilities at four existing compressor stations on 
its mainline in the Columbia River Gorge area of Klickitat, Skamania, 
and Clark Counties, Washington, in order to expand its capacity to 
provide incremental firm transportation service, all as more fully set 
forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Specifically, Northwest proposes to include a new turbine-driven 
centrifugal compressor unit at the Roosevelt Compressor Station, 
turbine upgrades and compressor restages for two units at the Willard 
Compressor Station, turbine upgrades for two units and a compressor 
restage for one of those units at the Goldendale Compressor Station, 
and new cylinder unloader pockets on the reciprocating compressor unit 
at the Washougal Compressor Station.
    Northwest also states that the proposed compression facilities will 
add a total of 10,870 horsepower (ISO rated) to its system and will 
increase its mainline transmission capacity by 50,000 Dth per day from 
the Stanfield Meter Station near Stanfield, Oregon to the SIPI Meter 
Station near Sumas, Washington. Northwest estimates the cost of this 
Columbia Gorge Expansion Project to be 17 million dollars.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before June 18, 1998, 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 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 pubic 
convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely 
field, 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-14630 Filed 6-2-98; 8:45 am]
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