Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C.; Notice of Application for Authorization To Construct, Operate and Maintain Border Facilities and for Presidential Permit

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 203 (Friday, October 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 54432-54433]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-26769]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-810-000]


Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C.; Notice of Application for 
Authorization To Construct, Operate and Maintain Border Facilities and 
for Presidential Permit

October 11, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 23, 1996, Maritimes & Northeast 
Pipeline, L.L.C. (Maritimes & Northeast), c/o M&N Management Company, 
1284 Soldiers Field Road, Boston, Massachusetts, 02135, filed an 
application in Docket No. CP96-810-000. The application seeks 
authorization to site, construct, operate and maintain pipeline 
facilities at the United States-Canada International Boundary near 
Woodland, Maine and St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada. A Presidential 
Permit for these border facilities is sought under Executive Order No. 
10485, as amended by Executive Order No. 12038, Secretary of Energy 
Delegation Order No. 0204-112 and Sections 153.10 through 153.12 for 
the Commission's regulations. Section 3 authorization to site, 
construct, operate and maintain facilities is sought under Section 3 of 
the Natural Gas Act (NGA), Secretary of Energy Delegation Order No. 
0204-112 and Sections 153.1 through 153.8 of the Commission's 
Regulations. The details of Maritimes & Northeast's proposal are more 
fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    Maritimes & Northeast is a limited liability company, organized and 
existing under the laws of the state of Delaware. Maritimes & 
Northeast's members are M&N Management Company, a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of PanEnergy Corp; Westcoast Energy (U.S.) Inc., a wholly-
owned subsidiary of Westcoast Energy, Inc. and Mobil Midstream Natural 
Gas Investment, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Mobil Oil 
Corporation.
    Maritimes & Northeast says that the proposed border facilities will 
connect Maritimes & Northeast's proposed United States Phase II 
facilities with the Canadian facilities to be constructed by Maritimes 
& Northeast's Canadian affiliate, Maritimes & Northeast Pipeline 
Limited Partnership (``M & N Limited Partnership''). Authority to 
construct Maritimes & Northeast's proposed United States Phase II 
facilities has been requested under Section 7 of the NGA in an 
application filed contemporaneously in Docket No. CP96-809-000.
    Maritimes & Northeast says that the specific facilities proposed to 
be constructed at the above-described point on the United States-Canada 
International Border will consist of the following:
    (1) about 400 feet of 30-inch diameter high-pressure pipeline 
placed at a depth not less than five feet beneath the river bed of the 
St. Croix River,
    (2) associated valving on each side of the river, and
    (3) check-meter facilities located approximately 1.8 miles from the 
border on the United States side.

However, Maritimes & Northeast has not provided site specific river 
crossing environmental information. The Commission Staff cannot 
establish a schedule for completion of its environmental review until 
that information is received.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before November 4, 1996, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
NE, Washington, D.C. 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in 
accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211). 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 a 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 3 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 
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application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required 
herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that a 
grant of the certificate is 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 given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Maritimes & Northeast to appear or be 
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-26769 Filed 10-17-96; 8:45 am]
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