[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 82 (Friday, April 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18582-18583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-10318]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-321-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

April 22, 1996.
    Take notice that on April 15, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas, 79978, filed an 
application at Docket No. CP96-321-000, pursuant to Section 7 (c) of 
the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations. El 
Paso seeks a certificate of convenience and necessity authorizing the 
construction and operation of additional compression facilities, all as 
more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    El Paso requests authorization to construct and operate additional 
compression facilities, with appurtenances, to be located at its 
existing Alamo Lake and Dutch Flat Compressor Stations on the Havasu 
Crossover Line and at its Wenden Compressor Station on the South 
System, all located in Mohave and La Paz Counties, Arizona (the Havasu 
Expansion Project).
    El Paso says that the Havasu Expansion Project has been designed to 
enable El Paso to transport additional quantities of gas of about 
180,000 Mcf per day from its North System to its South System on the 
Havasu Crossover Line. The estimated cost of the Havasu Expansion 
Project is $19,564,419. El Paso plans to place the proposed facilities 
in service by the second quarter of 1997, therefore it respectfully 
requests that the requisite authorization be issued no later than 
December 31, 1996.
    El Paso says that the proposed additional 180,000 Mcf per day of 
capacity on the Havasu Crossover Line is dedicated to certain executed 
firm Transportation Service Agreements (TSA) between El Paso and 
various shippers, which El Paso has filed as privileged and 
confidential information under Section 388.112 of the Commission's 
Regulations. These TSAs are subject to the provisions of Rate Schedule 
FT-1 contained in El Paso's Volume No. 1-A FERC Gas Tariff (tariff) and 
the applicable rates under Rate Schedule FT-1. Additionally, El Paso 
says that it has calculated a separate incremental reservation rate 
attributable to the cost of service of the proposed Havasu Expansion 
Project which is proposed to become a component of the total Rate 
Schedule FT-1 Reservation Charges.
    El Paso further says that the incremental reservation rate for the 
Havasu Expansion Project is proposed to be $3.16616 per dth on a 
monthly basis and is referred to as the ``Havasu Facilities Reservation 
Charge.'' The Havasu Facilities Reservation Charge will be used to 
compensate El Paso for the cost of service for the new facilities while 
any remaining charges will be subject to the crediting provisions of 
Section 25.3 of its tariff proposed in El Paso's Stipulation and 
Agreement in Settlement of Rate and Related Proceedings filed March 15, 
1996, at Docket Nos. RP95-363-000, RP95-363-002, and CP94-183-000.
    The TSAs executed with the shippers for service on the proposed 
Havasu Expansion Project contain provisions for payment to El Paso of 
the new reservation rate component that will be charged in conjunction 
with the otherwise applicable Reservation Charges and reservation 
surcharges under Rate Schedule FT-1. The Monthly Reservation Charges 
for each shipper will be allocated first to the Havasu Facilities 
Reservation Charge, and any remaining amount to the otherwise 
applicable charges above.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before May 13, 1996, file 
with the Federal Energy

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Regulatory Commission, 888 First 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 385.211 and 
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.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that the request should be granted. If a motion for leave to 
intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its own motion 
believes that a formal hearing is required, further notice of such 
hearing will be duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for El Paso to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-10318 Filed 4-25-96; 8:45 am]
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