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buttress wall, (2) permanently stabilize

the Newport No. 11 right abutment

embankment, and (3) repower the No.

11 powerhouse through construction of

an eight-foot-diameter pipe and draft

tube extension from Project No. 2306’s

upstream Newport Nos. 1, 2, 3,

powerhouse.

The project as originally proposed,

and the project with dam No. 11

removed, have been addressed in the

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

for the Clyde River Project issued

February 17, 1995. However, we were

not aware when that document was

issued that the Applicant was preparing

to amend its application. Thus, we are

providing an opportunity for additional

interventions and for entities to

reconsider their terms, conditions,

prescriptions and comments submitted

previously with respect to this

application. Comments and/or petitions

for intervention will be due 30 days

from the date of issuance of this notice

with response comments due 45 days

from the date of issuance.

Copies of the application and

amendment are available for inspection

and reproduction at the Commission’s

Public Reference and Files Maintenance

Branch located at 941 North Capitol

Street, NE., Room 3104, Washington, DC

20426 or by calling (202) 208–1371. A

copy is also available for inspection and

reproduction at Citizens Utilities

Company, Citizens Road, Newport, VT

05855, or by calling (802) 334–6539.

The applicant contact for this project is

Mr. Frank W. Thomas.

Contact Ms. Kathleen Sherman at

(202) 219–2834 for questions relating to

this proceeding.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–6585 Filed 3–16–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket Nos. TA94–1–23–005 and TA95–1–

23–001]

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Co.; Notice

of Request for Conference on

Proposed Settlement

March 13, 1995.

Take notice that on March 1, 1995,

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company

(Eastern Shore), pursuant to Rule 602 of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, 18 CFR 385.602 (1994), filed

an offer of settlement in the captioned

proceedings.

As part of the offer, Eastern Shore

requests that the Commission convene a

settlement conference to consider the

offer of settlement and postpone the due

dates for comments and reply comments

until after the settlement conference.

Eastern Shore states that the offer of

settlement has three interdependent

parts. Article I provides that Eastern

Shore will change its PGA methodology

from unit-of-purchase to unit-of-sales

and will allocate purchased gas demand

costs on the basis of contract demand

entitlements. If that change is approved,

Article II provides that Eastern Shore

will reduce its purchased gas demand

base tariff rates immediately upon the

effective date of the Commission’s

approval. Eastern Shore would not be

required to make any refunds pursuant

to the May 19, 1994 order in Docket No.

TA94–1–23–000, et al., and would

withdraw its request for rehearing of

that order. Article III provides that

Eastern Shore will apply to the

Commission for a blanket certificate

authorizing open-access transportation

on its system, pursuant to 18 CFR Part

284, Subpart G.

Eastern Shore states that copies of the

proposed settlement and request for

settlement conference have been served

on all participants on the official service

lists for the captioned proceedings and

on interested state commissions who

were served copies of the initial rate

filings in these proceedings.

Any person desiring to be heard at the

conference or to comment upon the

procedures suggested in the request for

settlement conference to consider the

offer of settlement should file a motion

to intervene or comment with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

825 North Capitol Street, NE.,

Washington DC 20426. All such motions

or comments should be filed on or

before March 21, 1995. Existing parties

need not file a motion to intervene, but

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. 95–6587 Filed 3–16–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–250–000]

NorAm Gas Transmission Co.; Notice

of Application

March 13, 1995.

Take notice that on March 8, 1995,

NorAm Gas Transmission Company

(NGT), 1600 Smith Street, Houston,

Texas 77002, filed in Docket No. CP95–

250–000 an abbreviated application

pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural

Gas Act, as amended, and §§ 157.7 and

157.18 of the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s (Commission) regulations

thereunder, for permission to abandon

the Collinson Gas Storage Facility

(Collinson), located in Cowley County,

Kansas, and the reclassification of the

field lines and surface equipment from

gas storage to gas supply facilities, all as

more fully set forth in the application

which is on file with the Commission

and open to public inspection.

NGT states that Collinson consists of

720 acres and appurtenant equipment

used to store natural gas at a depth of

approximately 1,450 feet. NGT further

states that at Collinson there are two

field lines consisting of 1,654 feet of sixinch pipe and 923 feet of four-inch pipe,

that connect two injection/withdrawal

wells that were drilled in 1945. NGT

indicates that it acquired Collinson from

Consolidated Gas Utilities Corporation

(Consolidated) by merger effective

August 31, 1960, and received

certificate authorization in Docket No.

CP60–79. NGT further indicates that in

1991, it upgraded its Line 6 which

enabled NGT to provide service to

existing customers without the need to

operate Collinson. NGT avers that on

September 30, 1994, it abandoned Line

6 as part of the Kansas facilities sold to

Utilcorp United, Inc. (Utilcorp), as

approved by the Commission on

September 28, 1994, in Docket Nos.

CP93–434–000 and CP93–434–001. NGT

estimates the volume of gas presently in

Collinson is 847 MMcf non-current

‘‘native’’ or ‘‘cushion’’ gas.

NGT states that upon receipt of the

appropriate abandonment authorization,

it proposes to install a temporary 65

horsepower skid-mounted compressor

at the Collinson yard to withdraw the

non-current gas at an estimated initial

rate of 2,000 Mcf per day until the

deliverability declines to an estimated

economic limit of 50 Mcf per day. NGT

indicates it will install this compressor

as an eligible facility pursuant to

§ 157.208(a) of the Commission’s

regulations. NGT estimates that it can

recover 300 MMcf to 750 MMcf of noncurrent gas over a period of one to three

years, at an estimated annual operating

cost of $36,000. NGT further indicates

that gas wells can unpredictably

produce for prolonged periods at rates

less than 100 Mcf per day. NGT further

states that although the economic limit

is estimated to be reached within three

years, NGT plans to produce the wells

until the economic limit of the wells is

reached.

NGT indicates it will use the gas it

recovers from Collinson as part of its

system management gas and accounted

at fair market basis. NGT states that at