29746 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 114 / Wednesday, June 12, 1996 / Notices

with Central Louisiana Electric

Company, Inc. (CLECO) for providing

transportation services. The new point

will be located in St. Mary Parish,

Louisiana and was requested by CLECO

to serve the Teche Power Plant. The

estimated quantities of natural gas to be

delivered will be 85,000 Dth/day–12.6

Bcf/annually. The cost is approximately

$186,000 with CLECO reimbursing

Columbia Gulf 100% of the total actual

construction cost. The services provided

through the interconnection will be on

an interruptible basis and will not affect

Columbia Gulf’s peak day and annual

deliveries and the total volumes

delivered will not exceed total volumes

authorized prior to this request.

Columbia Gulf states that this new

interconnection is not prohibited by its

existing tariff and that it has sufficient

capacity to accomplish deliveries

without detriment or disadvantage to

other customers.

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice

of intervention and pursuant to Section

157.205 of the Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a

protest to the request. If no protest is

filed within the time allowed therefor,

the proposed activity shall be deemed to

be authorized effective the day after the

time allowed for filing a protest. If a

protest is filed and not withdrawn

within 30 days after the time allowed

for filing a protest, the instant request

shall be treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

Lindwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–14837 Filed 6–11–96; 8:45 am]

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Gas Research Institute; Notice of

Annual Application

June 6, 1996.

Take notice that on June 5, 1996, Gas

Research Institute (GRI) filed an

application requesting advance approval

of its 1997–2001 Five-Year Research,

Development and Demonstration

(RD&D) Plan and 1997 RD&D Program,

and the funding of its RD&D activities

for 1997, pursuant to the Natural Gas

Act and the Commission’s Regulations,

particularly 18 CFR 154.401.

In its application, GRI requests

approval of a total obligations budget of

$170.4 million in 1997, a decrease of

$4.4 million from the $174.8 million

approved for GRI’s amended 1996

obligations budget. During the twelve

months ending December 31, 1997, GRI

intends to collect $179.9 million

through jurisdictional rates and charges,

and disburse $176.2 million.

GRI also proposes to modify its

current funding mechanism by: (i) Not

following the 50/50 demand/commodity

balancing provisions so that current

surcharges may be used in 1997; and (ii)

limiting refunds to amounts collected in

excess of the annualized funding

requirement for its 1997 RD&D program.

GRI proposes to fund its 1997 RD&D

Program through the following

surcharges: (1) A demand/reservation

surcharge on two-part rates of 26.0 cents

per Dth per Month for ‘‘high load-factor

customers’’; (2) a demand/reservation

surcharge on two-part rates of 16.0 cents

per Dth per month for ‘‘low load-factor

customers’’; (3) a volumetric

commodity/usage surcharge of 0.88

cents for firm services involving twopart rates and for one-part interruptible

rates; (4) a special ‘‘small customer’’

surcharge of 2.0 cents per Dth; and (5)

a surcharge of 1.74 cents per Dth per

month for one-part, firm service outside

the ‘‘small customer’’ class.

GRI has not filed detailed information

on its 1998 RD&D Program. According

to GRI, downsizing of its 1996 RD&D

Program is yet to be fully implemented

and issues pertaining to funding

stability are still outstanding; for this

reason GRI requests that is 1997

proposal be approved on its own merit,

rather than as part of a two-year

program.

The Commission Staff will analyze

GRI’s application and prepare a

Commission Staff Report. This Staff

Report will be served on all parties and

filed with the Commission as a public

document by July 31, 1996. Comments

on the Staff Report by all parties, except

GRI, must filed with the Commission on

or before August 14, 1996. GRI’s reply

comments must be filed on or before

August 28, 1996.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

protest GRI’s application, except for GRI

members and state regulatory

commissions, who are automatically

permitted to participate in the instant

proceedings as intervenors, should file a

motion to intervene or protest with

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Rules 214

and 211 of the Commission’s Rules of

Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.214

and 385.11. All protests, motions to

intervene and comments should be filed

on or before June 20, 1996. All

comments and protests will be

considered by the Commission in

determining the appropriate action to be

taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to this proceeding.

Any person wishing to become a party,

other than a GRI member or a state

regulatory commission, must file with

the Commission and are available for

public inspection.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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K N Interstate Gas Transmission Co.;

Notice of Account No. 858 Filing

June 6, 1996.

Take notice that on June 3, 1996, K N

Interstate Gas Transmission Co. (KNI)

made its annual Account No. 858

tracker filing in the above captioned

docket.

KNI states that the filing revises KNI’s

Account No. 858 rate component and

details, for the months April 1, 1995

through March 1996, its actual Account

No. 858 cost recovery and incurrence.

KNI states that copies of the filing

were served upon KNI’s jurisdictional

customers, interested public bodies, and

all parties to the proceedings.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to this

filing should file a motion to intervene

or protest with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, in

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).

All such motions or protests must be

filed as provided in Section 154.210 of

the Commission’s Regulations. 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 petition to intervene

in accordance with the Commission’s

Rules. Copies of this filing are on file

with the Commission and are available

for public inspection.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–14831 Filed 6–11–96; 8:45 am]

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