PUBLIC UTIL. COM'N OF STATE OF CAL. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 95-70611, 95-70917, 96-70104.

100 F.3d 1451 (1996)

PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, and Southern California Utility Power Pool; Imperial Irrigation District; Meridian Oil Inc.; Pacific Gas And Electric Company; Southern California Gas Company; Process Gas Consumers Group; Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd.; Kern River Gas Transmission Company; Associated Gas Distributors; Toward Utility Rate Normalization; San Diego Gas and Electric Company; National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; City and County of San Francisco, Petitioners-Intervenors, and New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, Participant-Intervenor, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, and Mojave Pipeline Company, Respondent-Intervenor. PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Petitioner, and El Paso Natural Gas Company; Foothills Pipe Lines Ltd.; City and County of San Francisco, Petitioners-Intervenors, and Sacramento Municipal Utility District, Intervenor, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, and Meridian Oil Inc.; Process Gas Consumers Group; Mojave Pipeline Company, Respondents-Intervenors. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided November 20, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter Arth, Jr., Edward W. O'Neill and Mark Fogelman, California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner Public Utilities Commission of the State of California.

Daniel G. Clement, Randall R. Morrow, Los Angeles, CA, for petitioner-intervenor Southern California Gas Co.

Donald K. Dankner and Frederick J. Killion, Winston & Strawn, Washington, D.C., Patrick G. Golden, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner and petitioner-intervenor Pacific Gas & Electric Company.

Susan Tomasky, Jerome M. Feit, Joseph S. Davies, and Eric L. Christensen, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., for respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Michael D. Ferguson, Bakersfield, CA, Mary Anne Mason, Kenneth L. Wiseman, and Kenneth M. Minesinger, Andrews & Kurth, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor and intervenor Mojave Pipeline Company.

Frederick Moring and Ann H. Kim, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor Associated Gas Distributors.

Thomas R. Kline, Andrews & Kurth, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor El Paso Natural Gas Company.

Michael J. Thompson, Wright & Talisman, Washington, D.C., Mark C. Moench, Salt Lake City, Utah, for petitioner-intervenor Kern River Gas Transmission Company.

Paul Rodgers and Charles D. Gray, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.

Norman A. Pedersen, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, Washington, D.C., for petitioners-intervenors Southern California Utility Power Pool and Imperial Irrigation District.

James F. Walsh, III, San Diego, CA, for petitioner-intervenor San Diego Gas & Electric Company.

Theresa Mueller and Michel Peter Florio, San Francisco, CA, for petitioner-intervenor Toward Utility Rate Normalization.

Theresa I. Zolet, Van Ness, Feldman & Curtis, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor Foothills Pipe Lines, Ltd.

Donald P. Margolis, Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco, CA, for petitioners-intervenors City and County of San Francisco.

Kim M. Clark, John, Hengerer & Esposito, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor and respondent-intervenor Meridian Oil Inc.

Edward J. Grenier, Jr., William H. Penniman, Glen S. Howard, and Daniel E. Frank, Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, Washington, D.C., for petitioner-intervenor and respondent-intervenor Process Gas Consumers Group.

Steven M. Cohn, Sacramento, California, for intervenor Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

Dwight C. Donovan and Edward G. Poole, San Francisco, CA, for participant-intervenor New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department.

Before: CANBY, Senior Circuit Judge, FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judge, and JONES, District Judge.


ROBERT E. JONES, District Judge:

The Public Utilities Commission of the State of California (CPUC) and the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG & E), plus numerous intervenors, have petitioned for review of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (FERC's) determination that it has exclusive jurisdiction, under the federal Natural Gas Act (NGA), 15 U.S.C. §§ 717 et seq., over Mojave Pipeline Company's application

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