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facilities, plus associated income taxes,

by making a lump sum payment upon

completion of construction. Kern River

requests a final certificate order no later

than May 2, 2002, in order to complete

the project before November 2002, the

date Duke estimates it will require test

gas for its new plant.

Because the pipeline will cross

environmentally sensitive areas, i.e. the

critical habitat of the desert tortoise,

kern River states that it is seeking a case

specific certificate, rather than pursuing

this pipeline construction project under

its Part 157, Subpart F, blanket

certificate authority.

An questions regarding this

application should be directed to Mr.

Gary Kotter, Manager, Certificates, Kern

River Gas Transmission Company, P.O.

Box 58900, Salt Lake City, Utah 84158–

0900 or call (801) 584–7117.

There are two ways to become

involved in the Commission’s review of

this project. First, any person wishing to

obtain legal status by becoming a party

to the proceedings for this project

should, on or before June 20, 2001, file

with the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, NE.,

Washington, DC 20426, a motion to

intervene 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A

person obtaining party status will be

placed on the service list maintained by

the Secretary of the Commission and

will receive copies of all documents

filed by the applicant and by all other

parties. A party must submit 14 copies

of filings made with the Commission

and must mail a copy to the applicant

and to every other party in the

proceeding. Only parties to the

proceeding can ask for court review of

Commission orders in the proceeding.

However, a person does not have to

intervene in order to have comments

considered. The second way to

participate is by filing with the

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as

possible, an original and two copies of

comments in support of or in opposition

of this project. The Commission will

consider these comments in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but the filing of a comment alone

will not serve to make the filer a party

to the proceeding. The Commission’s

rules require that persons filing

comments in opposition to the project

provide copies of their protests only to

the party or parties directly involved in

the protest.

Persons who wish to comment only

on the environmental review of this

project should submit an original and

two copies of their comments to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Environmental commenters will be

placed on the Commission’s

environmental mailing list, will receive

copies of the environmental documents,

and will be notified of meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Environmental commenters will not be

required to serve copies of filed

documents on all other parties.

However, the non-party commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

filed by other parties or issued by the

Commission(except for the mailing of

environmental documents issued by the

Commission) and will not have the right

to seek court review of the

Commission’s final order.

The Commission may issue a

preliminary determination on nonenvironmental issues prior to the

completion of its review of the

environmental aspects of the project.

This preliminary determination

typically considers such issues as the

need for the project and its economic

effect on existing customers of the

applicant, on other pipelines in the area,

and on landowners and communities.

For example, the Commission considers

the extent to which the applicant may

need to exercise eminent domain to

obtain rights-of-way for the proposed

project and balances that against the

non-environmental benefits to be

provided by the project. Therefore, if a

person has comments on community

and landowner impacts from this

proposal, it is important either to file

comments or to intervene as early in the

process as possible.

Comments and protests may be filed

electronically via the internet in lieu of

paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii)

and the instructions on the

Commission’s web site at http://

www.ferc.gov/documents/

makeanelectronicfiling/doorbell.htm.

If the Commission decides to set the

application for a formal hearing before

an Administrative Law Judge, the

Commission will issue another notice

describing that process. At the end of

the Commission’s review process, a

final Commission order approving or

denying a certificate will be issued.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP00–399–002

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation;

Notice of Compliance Filing

June 7, 2001.

Take notice that on June 4, 2001,

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation

(National Fuel) tendered for filing as

part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Fourth

Revised Volume No. 1, revised pro

forma tariff sheets, in compliance with

Order Nos. 637 and 637–A.

National Fuel states that the filing is

made to revise pro forma tariff sheets

filed in Docket No. RP00–399–000 on

July 17, 2000, in compliance with Order

No. 637, and to make other revisions to

tariff sheets that were not included in

the July 17, 2000 filing. National Fuel

states that the revised pro forma tariff

sheets are the results of a collaborative

process involving a number of

discussions among the parties to the

proceeding.

National Fuel states that copies of the

filing were served upon its customers,

interested state commissions and the

parties on the official service list

compiled by the Secretary in this

proceeding.

Any person desiring to protest said

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC

20426, in accordance with section

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such protests must be

filed in accordance with 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 proceedings. Copies of this filing are

on file with the Commission and are

available for public inspection in the

Public Reference Room. This filing may

be viewed on the web at http://

www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call

202–208–2222 for assistance).

Comments, protests and interventions

may be filed electronically via the

internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions

on the Commission’s web site at http:/

/www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

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