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El Paso Natural Gas Company ) Docket No. RP00-336-002
Aera Energy, LLC, et al., )
Complainants )
v. ) Docket No. RP01-484-000
El Paso Natural Gas Company, )
Respondent )
Texas, New Mexico and Arizona Shippers, )
Complainants )
v. ) Docket No. RP01-486-000
El Paso Natural Gas Company, )
Respondent )
KN Marketing, L.P., )
Complainant )
v. ) Docket No. RP00-139-000
El Paso Natural Gas Company )
Respondent )
COMMENTS OF
KERN RIVER GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANY l
ON AUGUST 1 REPORT OF
EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY
Kern River Gas Transmission Company ("Kern River") owns and operates a 926-
mile interstate pipeline system extending from southwestern Wyoming, through the states
of Utah and Nevada, to points of termination in Kern County, California. Kern River thus
competes with El Paso Natural Gas Company ("El Paso") in providing transportation
services to California and Nevada gas consumers and distributors. In the interest of
Kern River is not currently a party to this proceeding. Kern River filed a motion for
leave to intervene out of time on June 26, 2002, but the Commission has not yet acted on
that motion.
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providing the Commission with a full spectrum of views on the issues now before it in
this proceeding, Kern River offers these comments on El Paso's August 1, 2002 report to
the Commission in response to the Commission's order of May 31, 2002. 2
Kern River urges the Commission, consistent with the approach of the May 31
Order, to keep its role in the capacity marketplace to the minimum necessary to resolve
the problems on the El Paso system that the order identified. The Commission otherwise
should allow market forces to determine the most efficient combinations of existing and
new capacity to satisfy any demand for capacity that E1 Paso's existing capacity cannot
fulfill.
El Paso's August 1 report makes clear that the Commission must decide two
questions: (1) how much of the existing capacity of the El Paso system, plus the capacity
of the Line 2000 project, is available to be allocated to El Paso's full requirements ("FR")
customers, and (2) how should that available capacity be allocated among the FR
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