Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; Notice of Application and Establishing Intervention Deadline

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of Energy Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. CP26-175-000] Take notice that on April 1, 2026, Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern), 915 N Eldridge Parkway, Suite 1100, Houston, Texas 77079-2703, filed an application under sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's regulations requesting authorization for its Athens Optimization Project (Project). Texas Eastern proposes to replace four 1950s-era natural gas turbine units totaling 32,000 horsepower (hp) with two natural gas turbine units totaling 36,200 hp (net increase of approximately 4,200 hp) at its Athens Compressor Station (Station) in Athens County, Ohio. The Project will enable Texas Eastern to replace the existing obsolete turban units at the Station with new, efficient units and to expand the designed horsepower at the Station in order to provide 50 million cubic feet per day of incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to Kentucky Utilities' power generation facility in Danville, Kentucky. Texas Eastern estimates the cost of the project to be $223,033,746, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open for public inspection. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the Federal Register , the Commission provides all interested persons an opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the internet through the Commission's Home Page ( http://www.ferc…