[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 131 (Monday, July 8, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 35729]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17201]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-579-000]


Colorado Interstate Gas Company; Notice of Application

July 1, 1996.
    Take notice that on June 18, 1996, Colorado Interstate Gas Company 
(CIG), P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 80944, filed a 
request, pursuant to Secs. 157.205, 157.212, and 157.216 of the 
Commission's Regulations, for authorization: (1) to abandon its 
existing Amoco Delivery Line to Amoco's Wattenberg Plant and (2) to 
construct new pipeline delivery facilities in Adams County, Colorado, 
all under CIG's blanket certificate, issued in Docket No. CP83-21-000.
    Take notice also that, by letter dated June 28, 1996, CIG requested 
that its June 18, 1996, request be converted into a combined 
application: (1) for authorization to abandon its Amoco Delivery Line, 
pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act; and (2) for a 
certificate of public convenience and necessity to construct the 
aforementioned pipeline delivery facilities, pursuant to section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations, 
all as more fully set forth in the application, which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    The Commission issued a certificate to CIG in an order issued 
December 8, 1992, in Docket No. CP92-470-000, authorizing it to: (1) 
Construct the existing Amoco Delivery Line, which consists of 
approximately 0.8 miles of 16-inch diameter pipeline and connects CIG'S 
16-inch diameter 52-A line to Amoco's Wattenberg Plant; (2) construct 
CIG's Enterprise Lateral, which consists of approximately 21.5 miles of 
16-inch diameter pipeline and connects to CIG's 52-A line; and (3) 
convert that segment of the 52-A line which lies between the Enterprise 
Lateral and Amoco Delivery Line connections (approximately 23.9 miles 
of the 52-A line) into a supply lateral.
    The affected segment of 52-A had previously been used to transport 
gas in and out of CIG's Fort Morgan facility and Young Gas Storage Co., 
Ltd.'s Young Storage Field. In the December 8, 1992 order, the 
Commission held that lines 52-A and 52-B are facilities required to 
test, develop or utilize an underground storage field, and that (as 
such) the 52-A and/or 52-B may not be modified under the automatic 
authorization provisions of Sec. 157.208 of the regulations. The 
Commission also stated that 52-A and 52-B are not eligible facilities 
under Sec. 157.202(b)(2)(ii)(D) of the regulations, and that ``CIG may 
not perform miscellaneous re-arrangement of either line absent case-
specific certificate authorization.''
    CIG now proposes to abandon its 16-inch diameter Amoco Delivery 
Line and construct approximately 23.9 miles of 10-inch diameter 
pipeline that would parallel its 52-A and 52-B lines. CIG also proposes 
to construct a new 0.8 mile, 10-inch diameter delivery line to the 
Wattenberg Plant to replace the 16-inch Amoco Delivery Line. CIG plans 
to lay the new 10-inch delivery line in the right-of-way currently 
occupied by the 16-inch Amoco Delivery Line. CIG also proposes to 
convert the aforementioned segment of its 52-A line back to its 
original function. CIG estimates that the proposed facilities will cost 
$2.9 million.
    Any person desiring to be heard, or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before July 22, 1996, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington D.C. 20426, a 
motion to intervene or 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 the 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, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment and/or 
a grant of the certificate are required by the public convenience and 
necessity. 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 CIG to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-17201 Filed 7-5-96; 8:45 am]
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