BEFORE THE UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


In the Matter of the Application )
of CASCADE NATURAL GAS CORPORATION )
to Amend its Certificate of Public ) DOCKET NO.  UG-950770
Convenience and Necessity to       )
Operate a Gas Plant for Hire in    )   ORDER GRANTING
the General Area of Kitsap County )     APPLICATION
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  )


  On July 5, 1995, Cascade Natural Gas Corporation (Cascade), a Washington 
corporation, filed an application to amend its present Certificate of Public 
Convenience and Necessity to Operate a Gas Plant for Hire, to include the 
additional area in Kitsap County.  (Appendix A-4)

  Cascade is presently certificated for and is now providing gas service in 
Kitsap County.  Cascade is requesting a certificate to expand the service area 
within an area northwest of Poulsbo, Washington.  The additional area requested 
is contiguous to the existing certificated area.

  This filing request makes no determination at this time as to the 
reasonableness of the gas pipeline facility to serve this addition to Cascade's 
service area, but recognizes the right of the Commission to determine such 
reasonable services and expenditures, together with the treatment of same, in 
any formal proceeding before the Commission dealing with Cascade's results of 
operation for ratemaking purposes.

  It appears the application herein should be granted to satisfy the public 
convenience and necessity.

FINDING OF FACT

  1.  Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, a Washington corporation, operates a gas 
plant for hire in this state and is subject to the jurisdiction of this 
Commission.

  2.  Cascade has heretofore been issued a Certificate of Public Convenience 
and Necessity to Operate a Gas Plant for Hire as amended.

  3.  Cascade has filed an application to amend its Certificate of Public 
Convenience and Necessity, to include the additional area contiguous to its 
presently certificated area in Kitsap County.

  4.  The operation of a gas plant for hire in the additional area requested is 
or will be required by the public convenience and necessity.



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  5.  The Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Operate a gas 
Plant for Hire presently held by Cascade Natural Gas Corporation, should be 
further amended to include the additional area applied for herein.

O R D E R

  1.  IT IS HEREBY ORDERED that the application of Cascade Natural Gas 
Corporation to amend its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to 
Operate a Gas Plant for Hire within the certificated area in Kitsap County, is 
hereby approved and said Certificate shall be in accordance with attached 
Appendix A-4, which by this reference, is made a part hereof as though fully 
set forth herein.

  2.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED That the Certificate issued pursuant to Order 
Paragraph No. 1, above, is subject to the terms, conditions, and provisions of 
the Orders in Cause Nos. U-8841, U-8843, U-8937, U-9047, U-9052, U-9194, 
U-9238, U-9239, U-9253, U-9263, U-9264, U-9360, U-9388, U-9394, U-9407, U-9450, 
U-9467, U-9496, U-9600, U-9708, U-9759, U-9807, U-9808, U-9819, U-9790, U-9822, 
U-9860, U-9872, U-9873, U-10001, U-74-19, U-78-50, 
U-80-06, U-80-22, U-80-100, U-81-43, U-83-40, U-83-41, U-84-55, U-85-04, 
U-85-76, UG-900727, UG-900782, UG-911010, UG-940100, and UG-940101.

  3. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Cascade Natural Gas Corporation provide to the 
Commission no later than January 1, 1996, documentation that the Company has in 
fact, completed the installation of 6.9 miles of twelve inch looped pipeline in 
Mason County  and a comprehensive plan of development that will address the 
inadequate capacity of the existing eight inch Kitsap high-pressure pipeline 
and provide sufficient capacity to at least meet the anticipated demand along 
the Kitsap Peninsula.

  4. This Order makes no determination at this time as to the reasonableness of 
the gas pipeline facility to serve this addition to Cascade’s service area, but 
reserves the right of the Commission to determine such reasonable services and 
expenditures, together with the treatment of same, in a formal proceeding 
before the Commission dealing with Cascade’s results of operation for 
ratemaking purposes.

  5.  IT IS FURTHER ORDERED That jurisdiction over this order is retained to 
effectuate the provisions of this order.







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  DATED at Olympia, Washington and effective this 11th day of October, 1995.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


        
      SHARON L. NELSON, CHAIRMAN



      RICHARD HEMSTAD, COMMISSIONER




      WILLIAM R. GILLIS, COMMISSIONER









CASCADE NATURAL GAS CORPORATION
LEGAL DESCRIPTION
APPENDIX A-4
DOCKET UG-950770

A portion of Kitsap County to be added to Appendix A-4 adjacent thereto lying 
within the area described as follows:

Sections 2, 3, 4, and 5 of Township 26 North, Range 1 East, W.M.
Sections 22, 23, 26, 27, 28, 33, 34, and  35 of Township 27 North, Range 1 
East, W.M.

APPENDIX A-4 AMENDED:

All of the incorporated area comprising the cities of Bremerton, Port Orchard 
and Poulsbo and additional portions of Kitsap county lying within the area 
described as follows:


 Beginning at a point where the north line of Sec.23, T. 27 N., R. 1 E.,W.M., 
intersects the easterly meander line of Hood Canal; thence southwesterly to a 
point where said meander line intersects the west line of Sec. 4, T. 26 N., R. 
1 E.; thence southerly to a point where said meander line intersects the west 
line of Sec. 12, T. 25 N., R. 1 W.; thence south along the west lines of Secs. 
12, 13, 24, 25 and 36, T. 25 N., R. 1 W., and along the west lines of Secs. 1, 
12, 13, 24 and 25, T. 24 N., R. 1 W., to the southwest corner of said Sec. 25; 
thence west along the north lines of Secs. 35 and 34, T. 24 N., R. 1 W., to the 
northwest corner of said Sec. 34; thence south along the west line of said Sec. 
34, and along the west lines of Secs. 3, 10, 15, 22, 27 and 34, T. 23 N., R. 1 
W., to the southwest corner of said Sec. 34; thence east along the south lines 
of Secs. 34, 35 and 36, T. 23 N., R. 1 W., and along the south lines of Secs. 
31, 32, 33, 34, 35 and 36, T. 23 N., R. 1 E., and along the south lines of 
Secs. 31, 32, 33 and 34, T. 23 N., R. 2 E., to the intersection of the south 
line of said Sec. 34 with the meander line of Puget Sound; thence north along 
said meander line, and along the meander line of Sinclair Inlet, Port Orchard 
and Liberty Bay to a point where said meander line intersects the east line of 
Sec. 26, T. 26 N., R. 1 E.; thence north along the east lines of Secs. 26 to 
the south line of Sec. 24, T. 26 N., R. 1 E.; thence east along the south line 
of said Sec. 24 to its southeast corner of Sec. 24, T. 26 N., R. 1 E.; thence 
north along the east line of Secs. 24 and 13, T. 26 N., R. 1 E. to the 
northeast corner of said Sec 13; thence west along the north line of Sec. 13, 
T. 26 N., R.1 E. to the northwest corner of said Sec. 13; thence north along 
the east line of Secs. 11, and  2, T. 26 N., R.1 E. and the east line of Secs. 
35, 26, and 23,T. 27 N., R. 1 E., to the northeast corner of said Sec. 23; 
thence west along the north lines of Sec. 23, T. 27 N., R. 1 E., to a point 
where the north line of said Sec. 23  intersects the easterly meander line of 
Hood Canal, the point of beginning.