Northern Border Pipeline Company; Notice of Petition to Amend

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 72 (Thursday, April 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18611-18612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-9360]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP93-3-003]


Northern Border Pipeline Company; Notice of Petition to Amend

April 9, 1999.
    Take notice that on April 5, 1999, Northern Border Pipeline Company 
(Northern Border), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1000, 
filed a petition to amend the authorization issued on October 30, 1992, 
as previously amended by the order issued on February 25, 1994, 
requesting authority to add existing receipt and delivery points on the 
Northern Border System as secondary receipt and delivery points and to 
allow the backhaul flow of gas under the U.S. Shippers Service 
Agreement, as amended, between Northern Border and Pan-Alberta Gas 
(U.S.) Inc. (PAG-US), all as more fully set forth in the petition on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection. This filing may 
be viewed on the Internet at www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm 
(call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    Northern Border states that the purpose of its proposal is that it 
provides PAG-US greater flexibility when conducting business with 
markets and suppliers.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 30, 1999, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, 
Washington, DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance 
with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and 
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) 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 protestors provide 
copies of their protests to the party or parties directly involved. Any 
person wishing to become a party in any proceeding herein 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 other intervenors. An intervenor can file for 
rehearing of any Commission

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order and can petition for a court review of any such order. However, 
an intervenor must submit copies of comment 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 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 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 Northern Border to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-9360 Filed 4-14-99; 8:45 am]
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