Applications, hearings, determinations, etc.: El Paso Natural Gas Co.,

[Federal Register: September 15, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 178)]

[Notices]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP98-756-000]

El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

September 9, 1998.

Take notice that on September 1, 1998, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El Paso), a Delaware corporation, whose mailing address is P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filedin Docket No. CP98-756-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.212 of Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.212) for authorization to construct and operate a delivery point in Greenlee County, Arizona, to permit the firm transportation and delivery and natural gas to Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc., a partially-owned subsidiary of Phelps Dodge Corporation (Phelps Dodge Morenci), under El Paso's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.

El Paso states that it provides firm transportation service to Phelps Dodge Morenci pursuant to the terms and conditions of an existing Transportation Service Agreement (TSA) dated August

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16, 1991, as amended and restated, between El Paso and Phelps Dodge Corporation. The TSA provides for the firm transportation of Phelps Dodge Corporation's full requirements of natural gas to delivery points located in Arizona and New Mexico, including two existing delivery points to Phelps Dodge Morenci in the Morenci, Arizona Area.

El Paso states that Phelps Dodge Morenci has informed El Paso that it will be installing two new boilers at the Morenci location which will require additional gas volumes to be delivered to Phelps Dodge Morenci. To facilitate the delivery of the gas to Phelps Dodge Morenci, El Paso and Phelps Dodge Morenci have agreed, pursuant to a Letter Agreement date June 4, 1998, that El Paso would install a new delivery point on El Paso's 8\5/8\'' O.D. Morenci Second Loop Line (Line No. 2083) in Greenlee County, Arizona, hereinafter referred to as the ``Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point.''

El Paso states that the total estimated cost of the proposed tap and valve assembly, including respective overhead and contingency fees, is $28,600. Phelps Dodge Morenci will reimburse El Paso for the costs related to construction of the proposed delivery point. El Paso will construct, own, operate and maintain the tap and valve facilities.

El Paso states that construction and operation of the Phelps Dodge Morenci, Inc. Delivery Point is not prohibited by El Paso's existing Volume No. 1-A Tariff and that El Paso has sufficient capacity to accomplish deliveries of the requested gas volumes without detriment or disadvantage to its other customers.

Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If no protest is filedwithin the time allowed therefor, the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act. David P. Boergers, Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98-24672Filed9-14-98; 8:45 am]

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