Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES › Part XI - Office of Conservation-Pipeline Division › Subpart 1 - Natural Gas and Coal › Chapter 1 - Natural Gas and Coal › Section XI-133 - Transportation of Intrastate Natural Gas and the Construction, Extension, Acquisition and Operation of Facilities or Extensions Thereof for the Purpose of Acquisition of Gas Supplies within a Gas Supply Acquisition Service Area or Transportation of Gas Supplies for Others within a Gas Supply Transportation Service Area Pursuant to the Provisions of Section 555(F) of the Act

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. This regulation
				  shall apply to the requirements placed by Section 555(F) of the Act upon an
				  intrastate natural gas transporter relative to the transportation of intrastate
				  natural gas and the construction, extension, acquisition and operation of
				  facilities, or extensions thereof, for the purpose of acquisition of gas
				  supplies within a gas supply acquisition service area or transportation of gas
				  supplies for others within a gas supply transportation service area.
B. Each transporter owning or operating an
				  intrastate pipeline, the construction and operation of which has been approved
				  by order of the commissioner under Section 555. C of the Act, shall have the
				  right to apply to the commissioner for the establishment of a gas supply
				  acquisition service area or gas supply transportation service area. Within such
				  gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply transportation service area a
				  transporter may at its option enlarge or extend its facilities, by construction
				  or acquisition, for the purpose of acquiring or transporting for others
				  additional supplies of natural gas. All applications by the transporter filed
				  with the commissioner requesting the establishment of a gas supply acquisition
				  service area or gas supply transportation service area shall be in writing,
				  verified under oath by an individual having authority, shall be in the form
				  approved by the commissioner, shall be noticed upon interested parties by
				  publication in the official journal of the state of Louisiana and the official
				  journal of each parish within which the gas supply acquisition service area or
				  gas supply transportation service area will be located, and shall contain the
				  information required by §125 All information required to be included
				  within the application which has been presented to the commissioner through
				  prior hearing evidence and all records and documents in the possession of the
				  commissioner filed pursuant to the Natural Resources and Energy Act of 1973 may
				  be incorporated in the application by reference. Each application shall include
				  a map depicting the location of the transporter's existing intrastate pipeline
				  to which facilities constructed or acquired pursuant to this regulation shall
				  connect.
C. All orders of the
				  commissioner establishing gas supply acquisition service areas or gas supply
				  transportation service areas shall be subject to the following limitations and
				  restrictions.
1. Location. A gas supply
				  acquisition service area or gas supply transportation service area shall be
				  located adjacent to the applicant's existing pipeline facilities.
2. Size. Facilities constructed or acquired
				  pursuant to this regulation shall not exceed 5 miles in length and nominal 8
				  inches diameter pipe.
3. Duration.
				  An order of the commissioner establishing a gas supply acquisition service area
				  or gas supply transportation service area shall remain in effect until
				  terminated by subsequent order of the commissioner.
4. Interconnections. An order of the
				  commissioner establishing a gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply
				  transportation service area shall not permit a transporter to connect its
				  facilities located within the gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply
				  transportation service area to another pipeline system, including other
				  pipelines or pipeline systems owned by the transporter.
5. Sales. An order of the commissioner
				  establishing a gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply transportation
				  service area shall not permit a transporter to construct, extend, acquire or
				  operate facilities, or extensions thereof, within such gas supply acquisition
				  service area or gas supply transportation service area for the purpose of
				  connecting such transporter's facilities to a customer and making sales of gas
				  to such customer.
6. Abandonment of
				  Facilities. An order of the commissioner establishing a gas supply acquisition
				  service area or gas supply transportation service area shall not permit a
				  transporter to abandon all or any portion of its facilities subject to the
				  jurisdiction of the commissioner, or any service rendered by means of such
				  facilities, within such gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply
				  transportation service area.
7.
				  Facilities Not Subject to Jurisdiction of Commissioner. An order of the
				  commissioner shall not establish gas supply acquisition service areas or gas
				  supply transportation service areas in conjunction with facilities which are
				  not subject to the jurisdiction of the commissioner under the Act.
8. Notice and Prohibition of Proposed
				  Enlargement or Extension. Prior to enlarging or extending its facilities within
				  a gas supply acquisition service area or gas supply transportation service
				  area, a transporter shall give the commissioner 20 days notice, on a form
				  approved by the commissioner, of the location, size, nature and purpose of the
				  proposed enlargement or extension. The notice shall be contemporaneously mailed
				  to those persons who are identified in the ad valorem tax records of the parish
				  as the owners of the land to be traversed by the proposed facility, with notice
				  that objections to the proposed facility, must be made to the commissioner, in
				  writing, within 10 days of the date of the notice. The commissioner may, within
				  such 20-day period, beginning on the date of receipt of the written notice in
				  the Office of Conservation, prohibit the proposed construction or acquisition
				  under the order establishing the gas supply acquisition service area or gas
				  supply transportation service area and require the transporter to apply for an
				  order to construct and operate the proposed facilities pursuant to Section 555.
				  C of the Act. Upon request by the transporter, the commissioner may notify the
				  transporter verbally, to be immediately confirmed in writing prior to the end
				  of the 20-day notice period that he has no objection to the construction or
				  acquisition of the proposed facility and that the transporter may immediately
				  construct or acquire and operate the proposed facility.