[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 26427]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-12062]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-654-001]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Amended 
Application

May 11, 1995.
    Take notice that on May 9, 1995, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310, filed in Docket No. CP94-654-001, an amended application, 
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Section 157.7 
of the Commission's Regulations, for a certificate of public 
convenience and necessary to construct, own, and operate certain 
incremental pipeline facilities necessary to render firm transportation 
service to PECO Energy Company (PECO) and UGI Utilities, Inc. (UGI). 
Firm transportation service will be provided under Texas Eastern's Part 
284, open-access blanket transportation certificate, and the terms and 
conditions of Texas Eastern's Rate Schedule FT-1. Texas Eastern also 
requests authorization to charge a NGA Section 7 initial rate that is a 
separately-stated incremental rate.
    Texas Eastern filed its original application on July 12, 1994, and 
proposed to construct facilities in two phases to provide firm 
transportation for: Eastern Shore Gas Company (Eastern Shore), PECO, 
and UGI (Phase I); and South Jersey Natural Gas Company (South Jersey) 
(Phase II). Eastern Shore, PECO, and South Jersey intended to utilize 
their capacity to transport volumes of gas from the Riverside Gas 
Storage Company (Riverside) storage facility, pending in Docket No. 
CP94-292-000. South Jersey declined to execute a precedent agreement, 
and Texas Eastern filed its ``Notice of Withdrawal'' of the Phase II 
facilities on August 31, 1994. Since that time, Texas Eastern has been 
notified that Riverside's storage project will not be in service in the 
1995-96 winter heating season, as originally contemplated,
    As a result, Eastern Shore has withdrawn from the project, and PECO 
has agreed to a corresponding increase of 2,000 dekatherms per day 
(Dth/d) in its contract quantity for a total of 29,210 Dth/d to be 
transported on the incremental facilities proposed to be constructed by 
Texas Eastern between Uniontown, Pennsylvania and Doylestown, 
Pennsylvania. PECO has made alternate permanent upstream arrangements 
for storage service and for the transportation of the gas to Uniontown, 
Pennsylvania.
    There is no change in UGI's proposed firm transportation service, 
or in the proposed total incremental capacity. The proposed facilities 
are also unchanged from the original application; except that the 4.05 
miles of 36-inch pipeline loop in Greene County, Pennsylvania has been 
eliminated, and the capacity at the meter and regulating station in 
Bucks County, Pennsylvania has been increased to 50,000 Dth/d (without 
physical modification of the original design).
    Pursuant to the Amended Application, Texas Eastern proposes to 
construct: 7.22 miles of 36-inch pipeline replacement in Fayette, 
Bedford, and Bucks Counties, Pennsylvania; and a new meter and 
regulating station in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The estimated total 
cost of the proposed facilities is $22,019,000. Based upon the proposed 
cost of the facilities, Texas Eastern proposes an initial incremental 
monthly reservation charge of $10.896 per Dth/d beginning November 1, 
1995.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said amended application should on or before May 25, 1995, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol 
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 385.211 or 385.214) 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. All persons who 
have heretofore filed need not file again.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-12062 Filed 5-16-95; 8:45 am]
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