CONSUMERS POWER CO. v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION

Civ. A. Nos. 5-72000, 5-72030, 5-72093, 5-72104, 5-72171 and 6-70499.

413 F.Supp. 1024 (1976)

CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY, a Michigan Corporation, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and Frank G. Zarb, Defendants, and General Motors Corporation, Intervenor-Defendant. LOWELL LIGHT AND POWER BOARD, a Municipal Utility, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and Frank G. Zarb, Defendants. The DOW CHEMICAL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and Frank G. Zarb, Defendants. OWENS-ILLIONIS, INC., Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and Frank G. Zarb, Defendants. MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION, Plaintiff, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION and Frank G. Zarb, Defendants. CELANESE CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs, v. FEDERAL ENERGY ADMINISTRATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

April 23, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. Tracy, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., Terrance Murphy, Wald, Harkrader & Ross, William Bode, Batzell, Nunn & Bode, Washington, D. C., O. K. Petersen, Jackson, Mich., for Consumers Power Co.

Peter W. Steketee, Freihofer, Cook, Hecht, Oosterhouse & DeBoer, Grand Rapids, Mich., for Lowell Light and Power Bd.

P. D. Conner, Ann Arbor, Mich., Leslie F. Nute, Midland, Mich., for The Dow Chemical Co.

Philip McWeeny, Toledo, Ohio, Keith R. McCrea, Grove, Jaskiewicz, Gilliam & Cobert, Washington, D. C., Daniel G. Wyllie, Dykema, Gossett, Spencer, Goodnow & Trigg, Detroit, Mich., for Owens-Illinois, Inc.

James E. Riley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lansing, Mich., for Michigan Public Service Commission.

Tucker Peterson, R. Gordon Gooch, Baker & Botts, Washington, D. C., for Celanese Corp.

Patricia N. Blair, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Thomas M. Woods, Asst. U. S. Atty., Detroit, Mich., Scott Lang, Federal Energy Administration, Washington, D. C., for Federal Energy Administration.

Edward J. Grenier, Jr., Ronald L. Winkler, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, D. C., Douglas West, Hill, Lewis, Adams, Goodrich & Tait, Detroit, Mich., for General Motors Corp.


OPINION AND ORDER

JOINER, District Judge.

Consumers Power Company seeks declaratory and injunctive relief against an order by the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) granting Consumers' request for an allocation of natural gas liquids (NGL's) as a feedstock for the production of synthetic natural gas, subject to certain conditions. The only issues now before the court are (1) whether the FEA acted in excess of its authority in allocating NGL's to Consumers...

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