Document ID: FERC-2008-0475-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Blanket Authorization Request: Northern Natural Gas Co.
Posted Date: 2008-03-28T04:00Z

[Federal Register: March 28, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 61)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP08-95-000]

 
Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

March 24, 2008.
    Take notice that on March 18, 2008, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124, filed in 
Docket No. CP08-95-000, a prior notice request pursuant to sections 
157.205, 157.208, 157.210, and 157.211 of the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission's regulations under the Natural Gas Act for authorization to 
install and operate the East Leg I Project, located within the state of 
Iowa, all as more fully set forth in the application, which is on file 
with the Commission and open to public inspection. 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, (886) 208-3676 or 
TYY, (202) 502-8659.
    Specifically, Northern proposes to install and operate: (i) 
Approximately one mile of a 30-inch diameter mainline extension to the 
existing Ogden-Waterloo D-Line, located in Boone and Story Counties, 
Iowa; (ii) approximately five miles of a 6-inch diameter branch line 
loop on the existing 4-inch diameter Clarksville branch line, located 
in Bremer and Butler Counties, Iowa; (iii) approximately two miles of 
an 8-inch diameter greenfield branch line, located in Butler County, 
Iowa; (iv) a new meter station, the Hawkeye Shell Rock Meter Station, 
located in Butler County, Iowa; and (v) appurtenant section 2.55(a) 
facilities. Northern estimates the cost of construction to be 
$6,898,319. Northern states that the modifications proposed are 
necessary to meet the Hawkeye Shell Rock and Aquila, Inc. requests for 
firm capacity totaling 12.5 MMcf/d, effective September 1, 2008 and 
November 1, 2008, respectively.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to 
Michael T. Loeffler, Senior Director, Certificates and External 
Affairs, Northern Natural Gas Company, 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, 
Nebraska 68124, call (402) 398-7103 or Donna Martens, Senior Regulatory 
Analyst, at (402) 398-7138.
    Any person or the Commission's Staff 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 and, pursuant to section 157.205 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (NGA) (18 CFR 
157.205) 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 
C.F.R. 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. E8-6417 Filed 3-27-08; 8:45 am]

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