Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 13, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 55466]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26648]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-625-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

October 6, 1999.
    Take notice that on September 27, 1999, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), Post Office Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 
25325-1273 in Docket No. CP99-625-000 an application, as supplemented 
on September 28, 1999, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 
to permit Columbia to use firm capacity on Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee), all as more fully set forth in the application 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection. 
This filing may be viewed on the web at www.ferc.us/online/
rims.htm (call 202-208-2222).
    Columbia proposes to use firm capacity on Tennessee of up to 16,476 
dt per day from Broad Run, Kanawha County, West Virginia, to Highland, 
Elk County, Pennsylvania, for a period beginning October 1, 1999, and 
ending March 31, 2000. Columbia indicates that, as a result of 
corrosion revealed by recently completed and analyzed in-line 
inspection of two line segments on Columbia's system in Clinton and 
McKean Counties, Pennsylvania, Columbia has elected to remove the two 
pipelines from service prior to October 1, 1999. To find an alternate 
means of maintaining capacity to serve its contractual obligations 
during the 1999-2000 winter heating season, Columbia indicates that it 
has arranged to use capacity on Tennessee's system. Columbia indicates 
that, because it needs to maintain normal operating pressures on those 
pipelines to meet its service obligations, it cannot reduce its line 
pressure on those facilities as a long term option. Columbia also 
states that it has not had sufficient time to complete the analysis of 
the two pipelines to determine if the pipelines or segments of the 
pipelines may have to be replaced or abandoned.
    Columbia states that no construction of facilities is required to 
implement the transaction. It is stated that the total cost of the 
transaction will be between $600,000 and $650,000, which will be 
accounted for pursuant to the provisions of its tariff concerning 
Transportation Cost Recovery Adjustment Filings.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before October 27, 1999, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.10). 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 the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Sections 7 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 
this 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 and permission for abandonment 
are 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 duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Columbia to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-26648 Filed 10-12-99; 8:45 am]
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