[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 1 (Monday, January 3, 1994)] [Notices] [Page 84] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 93-32014] [[Page Unknown]] [Federal Register: January 3, 1994] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [Docket No. CP94-154-000] Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company Southern Natural Gas Co.; Application December 27, 1993. Take notice that on December 22, 1993, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252-2511 and Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, jointly referred to as Applicants, filed in Docket No. CP94-154-000 an application pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, for permission and approval to abandon an emergency gas exchange service, effective September 1, 1993, all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection. The Applicants were authorized in Docket No. CP63-146, to construct and operate two emergency interconnections between the pipeline facilities of the two companies, and to use those facilities to provide an emergency exchange of natural gas between Tennessee and Southern. The facilities were constructed at a point where Southern's 24 inch Second North Main Line crossed Tennessee's 30 inch Delta Portland Line in Lowndes County, Mississippi, and at a point where Southern's 18 inch line crossed Tennessee's 30 inch line in Clarke County, Mississippi. The facilities were only to be used two accommodate a gas-for-gas emergency exchange. It is stated that the Applicants performed the emergency exchange service under agreements, denoted as Tennessee's Rate Schedule X-13 and Southern's Rate Schedule X-15, which were both dated November 1, 1962, as amended. It is further stated that the emergency gas-for-gas exchange was designed to be used when either Southern or Tennessee was confronted with an emergency on its system, which could be alleviated by deliveries of natural gas from the system of the other. The Applicants state that they are proposing to abandon the emergency service because, the restructure of services under Order No. 636 has rendered the above-referenced agreement unnecessary and obsolete. No facilities are proposed to be abandoned herein. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before January 18, 1994, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). All protests filed with the Commission will be considered by it in determining the appropriate action to be taken but will not serve to make the protestants parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party to a proceeding or to participate as a party in any hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the Commission's Rules. Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in and subject to the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission by sections 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment are required by the public convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its own motion believes that a formal hearing is required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given. Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will be unnecessary for Applicants to appear or be represented at the hearing. Lois D. Cashell, Secretary. [FR Doc. 93-32014 Filed 12-30-93; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P