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1The official service list can be obtained by

calling the Office of the Secretary, Dockets Branch

at (202) 208–2020.

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Project No. P–11495–000]

Public Notice of Intent To Conduct

Public Scoping Meetings and a Site

Visit

April 7, 1995.

Take notice that the following

hydroelectric application has been filed

with the Commission and is available

for public inspection:

a. Type of Application: Original for

Major Project.

b. Project No.: 11495–000.

c. Date filed: August 26, 1994.

d. Applicant: Nooksack River Hydro,

Inc., Bothell, WA.

e. Name of Project: Clearwater Creek.

f. Location: On Clearwater Creek, near

Deming, Whatcom County, WA.

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power

Act, 16 USC 791(a)–825(r).

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Lon Covin,

Hydro West Group, Inc., 1422 130th

Avenue NE., Bellevue, WA 98005, (206)

455–0234.

i. FERC Contact: Mr. Surender M.

Yepuri, P.E., (202) 219–2847.

j. Deadline date for written comments

on scoping (environmental issues): May

26, 1995.

k. Status of Environmental Analysis:

On December 15, 1994, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)

issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

for the Clearwater Creek Project (FERC

No. 11495) and Warm Creek Project

(FERC No. 10865).

l. Intent to Conduct Public Scoping

Meetings: Two scoping meetings will be

conducted on Tuesday, May 9, 1995, at

7:00 p.m., and Wednesday, May 10,

1995, at 10:00 a.m.

Location: Hampton Inn, 3985 Bennett

Drive, Bellingham, WA 98225.

Interested individuals, organizations,

and agencies with environmental

expertise are invited to attend either or

both meetings and assist the staff in

identifying the scope of environmental

issues that should be analyzed in the

EIS.

To help focus discussions at the

meetings, a scoping document outlining

subject areas to be addressed in the EIS

will be mailed to agencies and

interested individuals on the

Commission mailing list. Copies of the

scoping document will also be available

at the scoping meetings.

Persons choosing not to speak at the

meetings, but who have views on issues

or information relevant to the issues,

may submit written statements for

inclusion in the public record at the

meeting. In addition, written comments

may be filed with the Secretary, Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission, 825

North Capitol Street NE., Washington,

DC, 20426, by the deadline date shown

in Item (j) above. All written

correspondence should clearly show the

following caption on the first page:

Clearwater Creek Hydro Project, FERC

No. 11495.

Intervenors—those on the

Commission’s service list for this

proceeding (parties)—are reminded of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure, requiring parties filing

documents with the Commission to

serve a copy of the document on each

person whose name appears on the

official service list.1 Further, if a party

or interceder files comments or

documents with the Commission

relating to the merits of an issue that

may affect the responsibilities of a

particular resource agency, they must

also serve a copy of the document on

that resource agency.

Site Visit: A site visit to the

Clearwater Creek Hydro project is

planned for May 9, 1995. Those who

wish to attend should plan to meet at

9:00 a.m. at the Acme Country Kitchen

on Route 9 in Acme, Washington.

m. Description of Project: The

proposed project would consist of: (1) A

10-foot-high, 75-foot-long reinforced

concrete diversion weir with a crest

elevation of 1,665 feet on the National

Geodetic Vertical Datum; (2) a 40-footwide, 80-foot-long, and 18-foot-high

concrete intake structure; (3) a 63-inchdiameter, 8,785-foot-long steel penstock;

(4) a 48-foot-wide, 48-foot-long, and 35-

foot-high concrete powerhouse

equipped with a vertical Pelton turbine

generator unit with a rated capacity of

6.0 MW; (5) an 80-foot-long tailrace; (6)

a 35-kV, 11.4-mile-long transmission

line; and (7) appurtenant equipment.

n. Purpose of Project: Project power

would be sold to a local utility.

o. Available Locations of Application:

A copy of the application, as amended

and supplemented, is 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 the applicant’s office

(see item (h) above).

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–9204 Filed 4–13–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–304–000]

Shell Western E&P Inc.; Notice of

Petition for Declaratory Order

April 10, 1995.

Take notice that on April 6, 1995,

Shell Western E&P Inc. (SWEPI), 200

North Dairy, Houston, Texas 77001,

filed a petition in Docket No. CP95–

304–000, requesting that the

Commission declare that a 33-mile, 6-

inch pipeline extending from the outlet

of a carbon dioxide (CO2) recovery plant

north of Denver City, Texas to an

interconnection with a Hinshaw

pipeline in Lea County, New Mexico, is

a gathering facility exempt from

Commission jurisdiction pursuant to

Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act, all

as more fully set forth in the petition

which is on file with the Commission

and open to public inspection.

SWEPI states that it is the operator of

the Denver Unit, an established oil and

gas producing unit with approximately

1200 wells and an extensive network of

gathering and re-injection lines

connecting the wells within the unit to

the Denver Unit CO2 Recovery Plant

(DUCRP), all located in Gaines and

Yoakum Counties, Texas. It is indicated

that since 1983, the Denver Unit has

been under carbon dioxide (CO2) flood,

an enhanced oil recovery process where

CO2 is injected into a subterranean

reservoir to recover additional oil. It is

also indicated that the plant was built

in 1984 to remove water, hydrocarbons

and hydrogen sulfide from the produced

CO2 stream at the Denver Unit so that

the CO2 is pure enough to re-inject.

SWEPI states that one of the by-products

of the CO2 separation process is low

Btu, off-spec gas having a Btu content of

700 Btu, a CO2 content of 12 percent by

volume, and a nitrogen content of up to

25 percent by volume. It is stated that

small quantities of the off-spec gas are

sold to other plants in the area for fuel,

but the majority of the off-spec gas is

circulated and re-injected along with the

CO2 because previously there was no

existing market for that product.

SWEPI states that the pipeline is an

existing liquids line that would be

converted to gas service and used to

move the off-spec gas from the plant to

a point where it can be transported to

the only feasible market for the product,

an electric generating plant operated by
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Southwestern Public Service Company

in Lea County, New Mexico located

approximately 35 miles from the plant.

SWEPI states that the gas to be delivered

into the pipeline is not pipeline quality,

and cannot be commingled or

transported with any other natural gas.

In support of its claim that the

primary function of the pipeline is

gathering, SWEPI indicates that the

facility meets the gathering criteria set

forth in Farmland Industries, Inc., 23

FERC ¶61.063 (1983), as modified by

later Commission orders, indicating the

following:

Length and Diameter of the Line

SWEPI states that onshore lines of

comparable and greater length and

diameter, including a 60-mile, 10-inch

pipeline downstream of a processing

plant (see 67 FERC ¶61,254 (1994), have

been characterized as gathering. Also,

the length of the pipeline is dictated by

the length of the existing liquids line

which would be converted to natural

gas service.

Beyond the Plant

SWEPI also states that the plant is a

separation facility that removes water,

hydrocarbons and hydrogen sulfide

from the CO2 produced from the unit

and is not a gas plant in the traditional

sense that it processes or treats natural

gas. However, it is indicated that the

pipeline would be an incidental

extension of the existing integrated

production, gathering, and CO2

separation and re-injection functions at

the Denver plant. SWEPI states that gas

would be produced from the various

wells located in the Denver Unit,

gathered to DUCRP for carbon dioxide

separation, and then either routed

through a return pipeline for re-injected

in the field or routed through the

pipeline to a point where it can be

transported to the end user. It is

indicated that the gas would not be

pipeline quality when delivered into the

pipeline and would require a segregated

line dedicated to off-spec usage. SWEPI

states that the traditional behind-theplant test recognized that the line of

demarcation between the production

and gathering function and transmission

function is the point where the gas is

processed to make the gas of salable

quality. SWEPI concludes that the

pipeline does not provide that line of

demarcation because the gas is never of

pipeline quality.

Operating Pressure of the Line

SWEPI states that it would operate the

pipeline at 600 psi, based on the

pressure at the outlet of the plant.

Ownership and Use of the Line

Concerning the general activity of the

owners of the facility, SWEPI states that

the proposed pipeline would be utilized

by the participating working interest

owners to gather their off-spec gas to a

point where it can be received for

transportation to the only available

market. SWEPI states that the fact that

the lessees of the line are the producers

of the off-spec gas to be handled by the

pipeline is an additional factor weighing

in favor of a non-jurisdictional

determination.

Gathering Across State Lines

SWEPI states that the Commission has

recognized in Superior Oil Co., 13 FERC

¶61,218 (1980) that gathering may cross

state lines and should not affect the

jurisdictional status of the line.

Access to Line

SWEPI states that the pipeline would

serve the unique and discrete function

of gathering off-spec produced by the

Denver Unit working interest owners to

a point where it can be transported to

the only available market. It is indicated

that, because all of the working owners

would have the opportunity to use the

pipeline, there will be no access issues.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

petition should on or before May 1,

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.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–9199 Filed 4–13–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–76–000]

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.;

Notice of Site Visit

April 10, 1995.

On May 3, 1995, the Office of Pipeline

Regulation staff, accompanied by

representatives of Texas Eastern

Transmission Corporation (Texas

Eastern), will inspect the proposed

location of Texas Eastern’s Line I–A

Loop, and Line I–H Upgrade in the

Philadelphia Lateral Expansion Project.

The proposed facilities are in Chester,

Delaware, and Philadelphia Counties,

Pennsylvania.

Parties to the proceeding may attend.

Those planning to attend must provide

their own transportation. For further

information, call Jeff Gerber, (202) 208–

1121.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–9197 Filed 4–13–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP95–299–000]

Texas Gas Transmission Corp. and

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.;

Notice of Joint Application for

Abandonment

April 10, 1995.

Take notice that on April 5, 1995,

Texas Gas Transmission Corporation

(Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street,

Owensboro, Kentucky, 42301 and Texas

Eastern Transmission Corporation

(TETCO), P.O. Box 1642, Houston,

Texas 77251–1642, filed in Docket No.

CP95–299–000 an application pursuant

to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for

permission and approval to abandon an

exchange service between Texas Gas

and TETCO and facilities which were

authorized in Docket No. G–13268 and

G–1086, all as more fully set forth in the

application on file with the Commission

and open to public inspection.

Texas Gas and TETCO propose to

abandon an exchange service and to

abandon the Orleans Purchase Meter

Station in Orange County, Indiana.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before May 1,

1995, 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