Gas Firm Seeks Fast-Track for New Oklahoma-Kansas Pipeline
Published Date: 3/7/2025
Notice
Summary
Texas-Kansas-Oklahoma Gas, LLC wants to start delivering natural gas to about 40 customers in Oklahoma and one in Kansas using a new pipeline section called the Baker Line. They’re asking for permission to do this without extra approvals and want some rules relaxed to make things easier. If you want to speak up or get involved, you’ve got 90 days to jump in before the deadline!
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 3 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
New Baker Line gas service to 41 customers
Texas-Kansas-Oklahoma Gas, LLC filed on February 19, 2025 to deliver natural gas via the Baker Line, a roughly seven-mile section, to one customer in Kansas and about 40 customers in Oklahoma. If approved, those listed customers would receive distribution service through the Baker Line from the existing Tyrone Baker Tap to the Hood Ranch Baker Farmers Meters Tap.
Company seeks LDC finding and regulatory waivers
TKO requests a finding that it qualifies as a local distribution company under section 311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act and asks the Commission to waive the reporting, accounting, and other regulatory requirements that normally apply under the Natural Gas Act and NGPA. These requests are part of the February 19, 2025 application for the Baker Line project.
Public comment and intervention deadline
Members of the public, including landowners, community organizations, and Tribal members, can file comments, protests, or motions to intervene at no cost. The deadline to file a motion to intervene is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on March 24, 2025; only intervenors have the right to request rehearing and to later challenge Commission orders in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
90-day environmental review timing and notifications
Within 90 days of this Notice the Commission staff will either complete its environmental review and place it in the public record or issue a Notice of Schedule for Environmental Review that will include the anticipated date for the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) or environmental assessment (EA). People who comment on the environmental review will be placed on the Commission's environmental mailing list and will be notified when the EA or EIS is issued and when related meetings are scheduled.
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