[Federal Register: December 1, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 230)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-76-000]

 
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application

November 24, 1998.
    Take notice that on April 20, 1998, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), Post Office Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, 
filed in Docket No. CP99-76-000, an application pursuant to Section 
7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's 
Regulations, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity 
authorizing Transco to construct and operate the proposed Southeast 
Louisiana Crossover Project (SELA Crossover), all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Transco states that the SELA Crossover is designed to provide 
incremental capacity for new firm and interruptible transportation 
service in the supply area by interconnecting Transco's Southeast 
Louisiana Gathering System with its Central Louisiana Gathering System. 
Transco states that the SELA Crossover will be able to provide 256,762 
Mcf per day of incremental firm transportation service from an 
interconnection with Garden Banks Gas Pipeline, L.L.C. (Garden Banks), 
at South Marsh Island, Block 76 (SMI 76) to Transco's Compressor 
Station 50 onshore at Eunice, Louisiana. Transco states that the SELA 
Crossover also will create 141,970 Mcf per day of firm transportation 
capacity from SMI 76 to Vermillion Block 67 offshore.
    Specifically, Transco seeks authority to construct, own, and 
operate approximately 53.23 miles of 24-inch diameter pipeline 
extending from an existing Transco-owned platform at South Marsh Island 
Block 66 (SMI 66) on the Southeast Louisiana Gathering System to an 
existing Transco-owned platform at Vermillion Block 678 on the Central 
Louisiana Gathering System, 7,400 horsepower of compression at SMI 66, 
1,200 horsepower of compression at South Marsh Island Block 106 (SMI 
106), and separation and measurement facilities and other appurtenant 
facilities. Transco estimates that the proposed facilities will cost 
$80,060,542.
    Transco states that it is also seeking approval of initial rates 
for firm and interruptible transportation service over the SELA 
Crossover based upon the incremental cost of service of the project's 
facilities. Transco states that it has submitted for approval Rate 
Schedules FTP-1, FTP-2, and FTP-3 for incremental firm projects in the 
supply area. Transco further states that it seeks Commission approval 
of a negotiated fixed rate with an anchor tenant, which has executed a 
precedent agreement for firm transportation service from SMI 76 to 
Station 50.
    Any person desiring to be heard or making any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 15, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
N.E., 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 
NGA (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 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 
of 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 the 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 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 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 Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-31875 Filed 11-30-98; 8:45 am]
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