[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 101 (Thursday, May 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25854-25855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12918]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-270-001]


Mid Continent Market Center, Inc., Complainant v. Panhandle 
Eastern Pipe Line Company, Respondent; Notice of Amended Complaint

May 17, 1996.
    Take notice that on May 13, 1996, Mid Continent Market Center, Inc. 
(Mid Continent), P.O. Box 889, 818 Kansas Avenue, Topeka, Kansas, 
66601, filed an amended complaint in Docket No. Rules of Practice and 
Procedure. Mid Continent charges Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company 
(Panhandle) with undue discrimination and anticompetitive behavior for 
its failure to timely agree to interconnect facilities and its apparent 
improper classification of the proposed receipt point in Panhandle's 
Field Zone rather than in Panhandle's Market Zone. The details of Mid 
Continent's allegations are more fully set forth in the amended 
complaint which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    The Commission previously issued a Notice of Complaint in Docket 
No.

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CP96-270-000 on April 18, 1996, (61 FR 18132, April 24, 1996) 
describing Mid Continent's operations and the facilities which are the 
subject of this amended complaint. Mid Continent now alleges that 
certain assumptions upon which it based its initial complaint have been 
proven wrong. However it still believes the Panhandle is unnecessarily 
delaying an agreement with Mid Continent to interconnect. Further, Mid 
Continent says that the delay is a continuation of anticompetitive 
behavior on Panhandle's part.
    Mid Continent says that the purpose of the amended complaint is to 
raise a new issue--Panhandle's apparent improper classification of the 
proposed receipt point in Panhandle's Field Zone, rather than in 
Panhandle's Market Zone. The existing facilities which Mid Continent 
intends to buy from KN Interstate Gas Transmission Company (KN's Haven 
Line) are already connected to Panhandle. Mid Continent says that KN's 
Haven Line is connected to Panhandle at Panhandle's Haven Compressor 
Station, which is the dividing line between Panhandle's Field Zone and 
Panhandle's Market Zone. Mid Continent claims that various Commission 
orders and filings show that KN's Haven Line is connected to the 
discharge side of Panhandle's Haven Compressor Station, thus in 
Panhandle's Market Zone. However, Mid Continent says that Panhandle now 
``considers'' that KN's Haven Line to be connected to Panhandle at the 
suction side of Panhandle's Haven Compressor Station, thus in 
Panhandle's Field Zone.
    Mid Continent asks that the Commission to rule that KN's Haven Line 
is connected to Panhandle in Panhandle's Market Zone and to require 
Panhandle to give Mid Continent a written statement about the operating 
conditions Mid Continent will be required to meet to inject gas into 
Panhandle's system on the discharge side of Panhandle's Haven 
Compressor Station. Mid Continent seek expeditious relief so that 
Panhandle does not unduly benefit from further delays, Absent the above 
requested relief, Mid Continent seeks a full evidentiary hearing on an 
expedited basis.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to the amended complaint should on or before June 10, 1996, 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). 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. Answers to the amended complaint are also due on or 
before June 10, 1996. Any person which filed a motion to intervene in 
Docket No. CP96-270-000 need not file again to become a party to the 
amended complaint.)
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-12918 Filed 5-22-96; 8:45 am]
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