Document ID: FERC-2009-0505-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Request Under Blanket Authorization: El Paso Natural Gas Co.
Posted Date: 2009-04-06T04:00Z

[Federal Register: April 6, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 64)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP09-85-000]

 
El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

March 30, 2009.
    Take notice that on March 24, 2009, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso) filed a prior notice request pursuant to sections 157.205 and 
157.208 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's regulations under 
the Natural Gas Act for authorization to decrease the Maximum Allowable 
Operating Pressure (MAOP), under El Paso's blanket certificate issued 
in Docket No. CP82-435-000. The filing may also be viewed on the Web at 
http://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket 
number excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC at 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call toll-free, (866) 208-3676 or TTY, 
(202) 502-8659.
    Specifically, El Paso requests authorization to decrease the 
certificated MAOP of a 111-mile segment of its 12\3/4\'' O.D. El Paso-
Douglas line (also referred as ``Line No. 1004) located in Cochise 
County, Arizona and Dona Ana, Luna, Grant, and Hidalgo Counties, New 
Mexico and to thereafter operate the segment of Line No. 1004 at the 
lower MAOP. The MAOP decrease will be from 850 psig to 803 psig. This 
change will not result in any abandonment of service to its customers.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to 
Richard Derryberry, Director, Regulatory Affairs Department, El Paso 
Natural Gas Company, P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs, CO 80944, phone: 
(719) 520-3782, fax: (719) 667-7534, e-mail: 
EPNGregulatoryaffairs@elpaso.com.
    Any person may, within 60 days after the 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. Any person filing to intervene or the Commission's staff 
may, pursuant to section 157.205 of the Commission's Regulations under 
the Natural Gas Act (NGA) (18 CFR 157.205) file a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefore, the 
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for 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 NGA.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, 
protests, and interventions via the Internet in lieu of paper. See 18 
CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's Web 
site (http://www.ferc.gov) under the ``e-Filing'' link.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-7572 Filed 4-3-09; 8:45 am]

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