Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 28 (Thursday, February 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 6888]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-3314]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-186-000]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of 
Application

February 5, 1999.
    Take notice that on January 29, 1999, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP99-186-000, an 
application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and 
Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) 
Regulations, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing Williston Basin to increase the maximum allowable operating 
pressure (MAOP) of Williston Basin's Pine Unit lateral pipeline, which 
consists of 9.6 miles of 6-inch pipeline located in Wilbaux and Fallan 
Counties, Montana. Williston Basin also requests authorization to 
construct 40 feet of 6-inch piping at it's Cabin Creek Compressor 
Station in Fallon County, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Williston Basin proposes to increase the MAOP of the Pine Unit 
lateral pipeline, from 200 psig to 727 psig, after pressure testing 
with natural gas. The Pine Unit lateral pipeline will be severed from 
its connection to the Baker # 2 Storage line, which has no currently 
available capacity, and connected, by means of the proposed associated 
station piping, to the Section No. 5 mainline, which has available firm 
capacity. Williston Basin states that its proposal is made at the 
request of Pine Gas Gathering, L.L.C. (Pine Gas), a local gas gathering 
company. The estimated total cost is given as $22,058, which Williston 
Basin states will be completely reimbursed by Pine Gas.
    Williston Basin also made a concurrent filing, in Docket No. CP99-
185-000, pursuant to the prior notice procedure under its blanket 
certificate for authorization to remove and abandon three sales taps on 
the Pine Unit lateral pipeline.
    Any person desiring to be heard or making any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before February 26, 1999, 
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) 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. The Commission's rules require that protectors provide 
copies of their protests to the party or person to whom the protests 
are directed. 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.
    A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service 
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive 
copies of all documents issued by the Commission, filed by the 
applicant, or filed by all other intervenors. An intervenor can file 
for rehearing of any Commission order and can petition for court review 
of any such order. However, an intervenor must serve copies of comments 
or any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other 
intervenor in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 14 
copies with the Commission.
    A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have 
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of such 
comments to the Secretary of the Commission. Commenters will be placed 
on the Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of 
environmental documents, and will be able to participate in meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on 
all other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all 
documents filed by other parties or issued by the Commission, and will 
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final 
order to a Federal court.
    The Commission will consider all comments and concerns equally, 
whether filed by commenters or those requesting intervenor status.
    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 NGA and the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the Commission or its designee on these 
applications 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 duly given.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Williston Basin to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-3314 Filed 1-10-99; 8:45 am]
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