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would preserve wetlands and is

therefore consistent with Executive

Order 11990, Protection of Wetlands.

BPA will endeavor to allow 15 days

of public review after publication of this

statement of findings before

implementing the proposed action.

Determination: Based on the

information in the EA, as summarized

here, BPA determines that the proposed

action is not a major Federal action

significantly affecting the quality of the

human environment within the meaning

of NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.

Therefore, an EIS will not be prepared

and BPA is issuing this FONSI.

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on May 11,

1995.

Randall W. Hardy,

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–13439 Filed 5–31–95; 8:45 am]

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Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. PR95–12–000]

Sonat Intrastate-Alabama Inc.; Notice

of Petition for Rate Approval Pursuant

to Section 284.123(b)(2) of the

Commission’s Regulations

May 25, 1995.

Take notice that on May 22, 1995,

Sonat Intrastate-Alabama Inc. (SIA) filed

in the captioned docket a petition

pursuant to Section 284.123(b)(2) of the

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s (Commission)

Regulations under the Natural Gas

Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA) for approval

of a maximum systemwide rate for

transporting natural gas pursuant to

Section 311 of the NGPA, all as more

fully set forth in the petition which is

on file with the Commission and open

to public inspection.

SIA files this petition pursuant to the

Commission’s Letter Order issued in

Docket No. PR92–16–000 on May 6,

1994, requiring SIA to file a

§ 284.123(b)(2) application on or before

May 20, 1995, to justify SIA’s existing

systemwide transportation rate or a

changed systemwide rate. SIA proposes

to retain its existing maximum

systemwide transportation rate of 29.4¢

per MMBtu for Section 311

transportation services. SIA requests the

Commission to determine that the rate

proposed herein is a fair and equitable

rate for performing Section 311

transportation services.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make a protest with reference to said

application should file with the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 825

North Capitol Street, N.E. Washington,

D.C. 20426, a petition 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). All such motions

or protests should be filed on or before

June 9, 1995. 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 a proceeding. Any

person wishing to become a party to a

proceeding or to participate as a party

in any hearing therein must file a

petition to intervene in accordance with

the Commission’s Rules.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

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Southern Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order

[Docket No. CP95–506–000]

May 25, 1995.

Take notice that on May 22, 1995,

Southern Natural Gas Company

(Southern), AmSouth-Sonat Tower,

1900 Fifth Avenue North, Birmingham,

Alabama 35203, filed a petition in

Docket No. CP95–506–000, requesting

that the Commission declare that

Southern’s Miley Line, located in the

Lockhart Crossing Field, Livingston

Parish, Louisiana, is a gathering line

exempt from the provisions of the

Natural Gas Act (NGA), all as more fully

set forth in the petition which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

Southern proposes to sell its Miley

Line, a natural gas pipeline extending

approximately 7,800 feet from the Miley

#1 well to Amoco Production

Company’s (Amoco) central dehydration

and separation facility. It is stated that

on April 9, 1995, Southern and Amoco

entered into a settlement agreement to

amend certain pricing provisions of gas

purchase contracts and to provide for

the sale by Southern to Amoco of the

Miley Line. Under the terms of the

settlement agreement, Amoco will

purchase the Miley Line from Southern

at its remaining book value, upon the

issuance by the Commission of a

declaratory order disclaiming

jurisdiction over the pipeline.

Southern submits that its Miley Line

is a ‘‘gathering facility’’ under Section

1(b) of the NGA as interpreted by the

Commission under the ‘‘modified

primary function’’ test, as set forth in

Amerada Hess Corp., et al., as amended.

52 FERC ¶ 61,268 (1990). Southern

notes that characteristic of gathering

lines, the Miley Line is a very short,

small-diameter pipeline, less than two

miles long and four inches in diameter.

Southern argues that the central point in

the field analysis is inappropriate in this

case because the Miley Line feeds the

natural gas it collects into the Amoco

Plant for processing. Southern states

that there are no compressor facilities

located along the Miley Line, consistent

with the requirement of minimal

compression on gathering facilities.

Southern notes that the Miley Line is

located completely behind a processing

plant, with volumes flowing from the

point of production at the Miley #1 well

to the Amoco Plant, strongly supporting

a finding that the facility performs a

gathering function. Southern further

notes that the Miley Line begins at the

Miley #1 well, satisfying the

requirement that wells be located along

all or part of the facilities. Southern

states that the gas gathered by the Miley

Line is untreated rather than ‘‘pipeline

quality’’, a characteristic found to be

consistent with the gathering function.

Finally, Southern relates that upon

Amoco’s purchase of the pipeline, the

Miley Line will be owned and operated

by a traditionally unregulated

corporation which will continue in its

historic practice of moving its own gas

production to its various customers

through its capacity in the line.

Southern reports that Amoco presently

performs no jurisdictional

transportation functions in the Lockhart

Crossing Field.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

petition should on or before June 15,

1995, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 825 North

Capitol Street, N.E., 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).

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.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

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