Document ID: FERC-2010-1209-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Requests Under Blanket Authorizations: ANR Pipeline Co.
Posted Date: 2010-08-30T04:00Z

[Federal Register: August 30, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 167)]
[Notices]               
[Page 52938-52939]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP10-484-000]

 
ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

August 20, 2010.
    Take notice that on August 12, 2010, ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 
717 Texas Street, Houston, Texas 77002-2761, filed in Docket No. CP10-
484-000 an application, pursuant to sections 157.205 and 157.216(b) of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA), as 
amended, for permission and approval to abandon by sale certain natural 
gas facilities located between Eugene Island Blocks 307 and

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305, offshore Louisiana, to Dynamic Offshore Resources NS, LLC 
(Dynamic), a natural gas producer, under ANR's blanket certificate 
issued in Docket No. CP82-480-000,\1\ all as more fully set forth in 
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to the 
public for inspection.
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    \1\ 20 FERC ] 62,595 (1982).
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    ANR proposes to abandon by sale approximately its Line 607 \2\ 
(4.41 miles of 16-inch diameter pipeline) and appurtenances, located in 
Eugene Island Blocks 307, 306, and 305 to Dynamic, pursuant to their 
June 10, 2010, Pipeline Repair and Purchase and Sale Agreement. ANR 
states that it would cost an estimated $25,186,000 to replicate the 
Line 607 facilities today and that no construction or removal of 
facilities would be required in this proposal.
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    \2\ ANR constructed the Line 607 facilities, which connect to 
ANR's Line 606, under authorization granted in Docket No. CP77-386-
000 [59 FPC 2164 (1977)].
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    ANR further states that upon abandonment of the Line 607 
facilities, Dynamic intends to operate the facilities as non-
jurisdictional facilities and ANR further requests that the Commission 
consider the Line 607 Facilities to be non-jurisdictional gathering not 
subject to jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act. 
However, this specific jurisdictional status request is beyond the 
scope of requests eligible for consideration under a blanket 
certificate and the prior notice process. As discussed in Commission 
Order No. 603-A, the Commission stated that ``* * * we clarify that 
using either the automatic or prior notice authority of this section to 
abandon facilities by sale to a third party does not address the 
jurisdictional status of the facilities after the effective date of 
abandonment. The acquiring party is still responsible for seeking a 
determination, if one is desired, on the jurisdictional status of the 
facilities.'' \3\
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    \3\ See Revision of Existing Regulations Under the Natural Gas 
Act, Order No. 603-A, FERC Stats. & Regs. ] 31,081, at 30,936 
(1999).
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    Any questions concerning this application may be directed to Rene 
Staeb, Manager, Project Determinations & Regulatory Administration, ANR 
Pipeline Company, 717 Texas Street, Houston, Texas 77002, or via 
telephone at (832) 320-5215, facsimile (832) 320-6215, or e-mail rene_
staeb@transcanada.com.
    This filing is available for review at the Commission or may be 
viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov, using the 
``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number excluding the last three 
digits in the docket number filed to access the document. For 
assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERC 
OnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call toll-free at (866) 206-3676, or, for 
TTY, contact (202) 502-8659. Comments, protests and interventions may 
be filed electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web site 
under the ``e-Filing'' link. The Commission strongly encourages 
intervenors to file electronically.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 60 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 NGA (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 allowed time for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the NGA.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2010-21466 Filed 8-27-10; 8:45 am]
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