Northern Border Pipeline Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC Gas Tariff

Take notice that on December 16, 2004, Northern Border Pipeline Company (Northern Border) tendered for filing to become part of its FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 1, the following tariff sheets to become effective January 15, 2005:

Second Revised Sheet No. 443,

Fifth Revised Sheet No. 295,

Sixth Revised Sheet No. 298,

Third Revised Sheet No. 457,

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 405,

Fifth Revised Sheet No. 407,

First Revised Sheet No. 457A,

Fifth Revised Sheet No. 423,

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 425,

Second Revised Sheet No. No. 461,

Second Revised Sheet No. 429A,

Second Revised Sheet No. 429C,

First Revised Sheet No. 466,

Second Revised Sheet No. 434,

Third Revised Sheet No. 436,

Second Revised Sheet No. 468,

Second Revised Sheet No. 472,

Second Revised Sheet No. 473,

First Revised Sheet No. 479,

First Revised Sheet No. 484, and

First Revised Sheet No. 488.

Northern Border states that the purpose of this filing is to update Northern Border's tariff language to reflect a change in the name of the operator of Northern Border from Northern Plains Natural Gas Company to Northern Plains Natural Gas Company, LLC. Northern Border further states that minor housekeeping changes were made to the Master Electronic Transactions Agreement.

Any person desiring to intervene or to protest this filing must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must file a notice of intervention or motion to intervene, as appropriate. Such notices, motions, or protests must be filed in accordance with the provisions of Section 154.210 of the Commission's regulations (18 CFR 154.210). Anyone filing an intervention or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant. Anyone filing an intervention or protest on or before the intervention or protest date need not serve motions to intervene or protests on persons other than the Applicant.

The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the “eFiling” link at http://www.ferc.gov . Persons unable to file electronically should submit an original and 14 copies of the protest or intervention to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426.

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