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for Declaratory Order stating that
section 203 of the Federal Power Act, as
amended, will not apply to certain
acquisitions of utility and holding
company securities. GS Group further
states that accompanying this filing is
an Application for Blanket
Authorization to Acquire Utility and/or
Holding Company Securities, pursuant
to, amended section 203(a)(2) of the
Federal Power Act, but that the
Commission need not act on this latter
Application if the Commission grants
the declaratory relief.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214).
Protests will be considered by the
Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
comment date. Anyone filing a motion
to intervene or protest must serve a copy
of that document on the Applicant and
all the parties in this proceeding.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
http://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
Web site that enables subscribers to
receive e-mail notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please e-mail
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Comment Date: 5 pm Eastern Time on
January 11, 2006.
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Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RP06–152–000]
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of
America; Notice of Petition for Waiver
and Request for Expedited Action
December 29, 2005.
Take notice that on December 23,
2005, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of
America (Natural), pursuant to Rule 207
of the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure, submitted a petition for
waiver of tariff and request for
expedited action to waive certain
secondary point rights provisions set
forth in section 5.5 of its General Terms
and Conditions. Natural makes this
request to provide shippers with added
flexibility in responding to capacity
constraints on Natural’s Gulf Coast Line
brought on by system testing and
maintenance. Natural requests that the
Commission grant this petition by
January 20, 2006, so that shippers can
utilize the waiver to set up February
business, thereby mitigating the impact
of the capacity reductions.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed in accordance
with the provisions of Section 154.210
of the Commission’s regulations (18 CFR
154.210). Anyone filing an intervention
or protest must serve a copy of that
document on the Applicant. Anyone
filing an intervention or protest on or
before the intervention or protest date
need not serve motions to intervene or
protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC
20426.
This filing is accessible on-line at
http://www.ferc.gov, using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for
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review in the Commission’s Public
Reference Room in Washington, DC.
There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the
Web site that enables subscribers to
receive e-mail notification when a
document is added to a subscribed
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC
Online service, please e-mail
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call
(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call
(202) 502–8659.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket Nos. CP06–42–000, CP06–43–000]
Northern Natural Gas Company, Targa
Texas Field Services LP; Notice of
Application and Petition for a
Declaratory Order
December 29, 2005.
Take notice that on December 27,
2005, Northern Natural Gas Company
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street,
Omaha, Nebraska 68124, filed in Docket
No. CP06–42–000 an application
pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural
Gas Act and part 157 of the
Commission’s Regulations, for
permission and approval to abandon by
sale various natural gas pipeline
facilities located in various Texas
counties to Targa Texas Field Services
LP (Targa), 1000 Louisiana Street, Suite
4700, Houston, Texas 77002. On
December 23, 2005, Targa filed in
Docket No. CP06–43–000 a petition for
a declaratory order with the
Commission disclaiming jurisdiction for
the facilities it intends to purchase from
Northern. Northern’s and Targa’s
applications are on file with the
Commission and open to public
inspection. These filings may also be
viewed on the Commission’s Web site at
http://www.ferc.gov using the
‘‘eLibrary’’ link, select ‘‘Docket #’’ and
follow the instructions (call 202–502–
8222 or for TTY, 202–502–8659).
Northern proposes to abandon by sale
to Targa approximately 101 miles of
16–, 10–, 8–, and 4-inch diameter
pipeline, including all delivery and
receipt points and appurtenant facilities
in Schleicher, Irion, Reagan, Glasscock,
and Midland Counties, Texas, for a
price of $3,000,000 pursuant to their
October 31, 2005, sales agreement.
Concurrently, Targa petitions for a
declaratory order disclaiming the
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Commission’s jurisdiction over the
facilities, rates, services, or operations
(referred to as the Eldorado—Spraberry
facilities) it would purchase from
Northern. Northern states that Targa
would integrate the Eldorado—
Spraberry facilities into Targa’s
gathering system and offer gathering
service to existing customers as well as
to other parties who request service on
these facilities.
Any questions regarding this
application should be directed to
Michael T. Loeffler, Director,
Certificates and Government Affairs for
Northern, 1111 South 103rd Street,
Omaha, Nebraska 68124, at (402) 398–
7103 or Dan Middlebrooks, Director Gas
Supply—Texas, Targa Texas Field
Services LP, 1000 Louisiana Street,
Suite 4700, Houston, Texas 77002, at
(713) 584–1047.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, on or before the comment date
stated below, file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426,
a motion to intervene 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). A person obtaining party
status will be placed on the service list
maintained by the Secretary of the
Commission and will receive copies of
all documents filed by the applicant and
by all other parties. A party must submit
14 copies of filings made with the
Commission and must mail a copy to
the applicant and to every other party in
the proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
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provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
Persons who wish to comment only
on the environmental review of this
project should submit an original and
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two copies of their comments to the
Secretary of the Commission.
Environmental commenters will be
placed on the Commission’s
environmental mailing list, will receive
copies of the environmental documents,
and will be notified of meetings
associated with the Commission’s
environmental review process.
Environmental commenters will not be
required to serve copies of filed
documents on all other parties.
However, the non-party commenters
will not receive copies of all documents
filed by other parties or issued by the
Commission (except for the mailing of
environmental documents issued by the
Commission) and will not have the right
to seek court review of the
Commission’s final order.
Comments, protests and interventions
may be filed electronically via the
Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions
on the Commission’s Web site under the
‘‘e-Filing’’ link.
Comment Date: January 19, 2006.
Magalie R. Salas,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP05–410–001]
Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice
of Amendment of Application
December 29, 2005.
Take notice that on December 23,
2005 Northern Natural Gas Company
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street,
Omaha, Nebraska 68124, filed with the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
an application under section 7 of the
Natural Gas Act (NGA) to amend its
original application pending
Commission approval in Docket No.
CP05–410–000, 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
also viewed on the Web at http://
www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link.
Enter the docket number excluding the
last three digits in the docket number
field to access the document. For
assistance, call (202) 502–8659 or TTY,
(202) 208–3676.
Northern states it is amending its
original application requesting
authorization to install the water
handling facilities to increase the
storage capacity at its Redfield Storage
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Field in Dallas County, Iowa, pursuant
to section 7 of the NGA. This
amendment is in addition to the
authorization requested in the original
application filed September 2, 2005.
Any questions regarding this
amendment should be directed to
Michael T. Loeffler, Director of
Certificates for Northern, 1111 South
103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124,
(402) 398–7103 or Bret Fritch, Senior
Regulatory Analyst, at (402) 398–7140.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, on or before the comment date
stated below, file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426,
a motion to intervene 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). A person obtaining party
status will be placed on the service list
maintained by the Secretary of the
Commission and will receive copies of
all documents filed by the applicant and
by all other parties. A party must submit
14 copies of filings made with the
Commission and must mail a copy to
the applicant and to every other party in
the proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
Persons who wish to comment only
on the environmental review of this
project should submit an original and
two copies of their comments to the
Secretary of the Commission.
Environmental commenters will be
placed on the Commission’s
environmental mailing list, will receive
copies of the environmental documents,
and will be notified of meetings
associated with the Commission’s
environmental review process.
Environmental commenters will not be
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