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considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceeding.

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.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–13884 Filed 6–3–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

[Docket No. CP96–97–000]

Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company;

Notice of Availability of the

Environmental Assessment for the

Proposed Hockessin Expansion

Project

May 29, 1996.

The staff of the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission (FERC or

Commission) has prepared an

environmental assessment (EA) on the

natural gas pipeline facilities proposed

by Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company

(Eastern Shore) in the above-referenced

docket.

The EA was prepared to satisfy the

requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act. The staff

concludes that approval of the proposed

project, with appropriate mitigating

measures, would not constitute a major

Federal action significantly affecting the

quality of the human environment.

The EA assesses the potential

environmental effects of the

construction and operation of the

following facilities proposed by Eastern

Shore:

• Construction of a 2,170-horsepower

(hp) compressor station, with a 1,085-hp

back-up unit, in New Castle County,

Delaware;

• Construction and operation of 0.89

mile of 16-inch-diameter pipeline in

New Castle County, Delaware to tie the

suction side of the proposed compressor

station into the Hockessin Line; and

• Uprating the maximum allowable

operating pressure from 500 pounds per

square inch gauge (psig) to 590 psig on

the 28.7-mile Salisbury Lateral from the

outlet of Eastern Shore’s existing

Bridgeville Compressor Station in

Sussex County, Delaware to the Citizens

Meter and Regulator Station in

Salisbury, Wicomico County, Maryland.

The purpose of the proposed facilities

is to enable Eastern Shore to provide

4,796 thousand cubic feet per day

(Mcfd) of additional firm capacity on its

system.

Eastern Shore also proposes to

abandon 100 Mcfd of firm sales service

to Playtex Apparel, Inc., a direct sales

customer.

The EA has been placed in the public

files of the FERC and is available for

public inspection at: Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Public

Reference an Files Maintenance Branch,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC

20426, (202) 208–1371.

Copies of the EA have been mailed to

Federal, state and local agencies, public

interest groups, interested individuals,

newspapers, and parties to this

proceeding.

A limited number of copies of the EA

are available from: Mr. Herman Der,

Environmental Project Manager,

Environmental Review and Compliance

Branch I, Office of Pipeline Regulation,

PR–11.1, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208–0896.

Any person wishing to comment on

the EA may do so. Written comments

must reference Docket No. CP96–97–

000, and be addressed to: Office of the

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,

Washington, DC 20426, (202) 208–0896.

Comments should be filed as soon as

possible, but must be received no later

than July 5, 1996, to ensure

consideration prior to a Commission

decision on this proposal. A copy of any

comments should also be sent to Mr.

Herman Der, Environmental Project

Manager, PR–11.1, at the above address.

Comments will be considered by the

Commission but will not serve to make

the commentor a party to the

proceeding. Any person seeking to

become a party to the proceeding must

file a motion to intervene pursuant to

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedures (18 CFR

385.214).

The date for filing timely motions to

intervene in this proceeding has passed.

Therefore, parties now seeking to file

late interventions must show good

cause, as required by section

385.214(b)(3), why this time limitation

should be waived. Environmental issues

have been viewed as good cause for late

intervention. You do not heed

intervenor status to have your

comments considered.

Additional information about this

project is available from Mr. Herman

Der, Environmental Project Manager.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–13850 Filed 6–3–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

[Docket No. CP96–495–000, et al.]

GPM Gas Corporation v. Continental

Natural Gas, Inc., et al.; Natural Gas

Certificate Filings

May 28, 1996.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. GPM Gas Corporation v. Continental

Natural Gas, Inc.

[Docket No. CP96–495–000]

Take notice that on May 2, 1996, GPM

Gas Corporation (GPM), First Interstate

Tower, 1300 Post Oak Blvd., Room 880,

Houston, Texas 77056, filed in Docket

No. CP96–495–000 a motion to

intervene, complaint, and protest to the

new pipeline tap and interconnection

proposed by Northern Natural Gas

Company (Northern) in its request filed

in Docket No. CP96–246–000 and

noticed on March 18, 1996, to be

constructed and operated under its

blanket certificate issued in Docket No.

CP82–401–000, involving deliveries of

natural gas to Continental Natural Gas,

Inc. (CNG), for plant feedstock purposes.

GPM requests that its filing be processed

as a separate application from

Northern’s filing, although GPM protests

the proposal in Docket Nos. CP82–401–

000 and CP96–246–000, and moves to

intervene in those dockets. GPM’s

complaint is on file with the

Commission and open for public

inspection.

GPM states that its complaint is filed

against CNG since it appears that, based

on the configuration and the present

and proposed usage of CNG’s facilities,

CNG must first obtain authorization

under the Natural Gas Act before it may

handle the subject gas to be received

from Northern. GPM alleges that CNG is

currently, effectively functioning as an

interstate pipeline without Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

oversight through the use of its own

pipelines to effect processing, at

different plant locations, of interstate

gas received from transmission lines.

Comment date: June 27, 1996, in

accordance with the first paragraph of

Standard Paragraph F at the end of this

notice. Answers to the Complaint shall

also be due or or before June 27, 1996.

2. K N Interstate Gas Transmission Co.

[Docket No. CP96–531–000]

Take notice that on May 22, 1996,

K N Interstate Gas Transmission Co.

(K N Interstate), P.O. Box 281304,

Lakewood, Colorado, 80228, filed in the

above docket, a request pursuant to

Sections 157.205(b) of the Commission’s

Regulations under the Natural Gas Act

for authorization to install and operate