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[FR Doc No: 94-22802]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-744-000, et al.]

 

Florida Gas Transmission Company, et al.; Natural Gas Certificate 
Filings

September 7, 1994.
    Take notice that the following filings have been made with the 
Commission:

1. Florida Gas Transmission Company

[Docket No. CP94-744-000]

    Take notice that on August 29, 1994, Florida Gas Transmission 
Company (FGT), P.O. Box 1188, Houston, Texas 77251-1188, filed in 
Docket No. CP94-744-000, as supplemented on September 1, 1994, a 
request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.216 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216) for 
authorization to abandon and remove a meter station which served as a 
delivery facility for Deseret Ranches of Florida, Inc. (Deseret) in 
Osceola County, Florida, under FGT's blanket certificate issued in 
Docket No. CP82-553-000, pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas 
Act, all as more fully set forth in the request which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    FGT states that Deseret has requested, by letter dated June 14, 
1994, FGT to remove the inactive meter station, which once served as a 
delivery point to Deseret under an agreement dated October 1, 1986, by 
and between FGT and Deseret. FGT further states that upon its 
restructuring of its services under Order 636, Deseret elected to 
change its energy source and did not execute a new service agreement 
with FGT. FGT indicates that the meter station served only Deseret. FGT 
also indicates that the proposed activity is not prohibited by its 
existing tariff and that it has sufficient capacity to continue all 
services without detriment or disadvantage to FGT's other customers.
    Comment date: October 24, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

2. Texas Gas Transmission Corporation and Texas Eastern 
Transmission Corporation

[Docket No. CP94-735-000]

    Take notice that on August 24, 1994, Texas Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro, Kentucky 
42301 and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern), P.O. 
Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket No. CP94-735-000 
an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for 
permission and approval to abandon a transportation and exchange 
service between Texas Gas and Texas Eastern, all as more fully set 
forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Texas Gas and Texas Eastern state that a gas transportation and 
exchange agreement (Agreement) between Texas Gas and Texas Eastern 
provided for the parties to exchange up to 20,000 Mcf per day of 
natural gas between West Cameron Block 237, Offshore Louisiana and HIOS 
Block A-568, Offshore Texas. Texas Gas and Texas Eastern indicate that 
pending the delivery by Texas Eastern of the Block A-568 volumes of gas 
to Texas Gas, the Agreement also provided that Texas Eastern would 
transport 20,000 Mcf per day of natural gas for Texas Gas on an interim 
basis to a point of interconnection between the facilities of Texas 
Eastern and Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco) near 
Ragley, Louisiana, and certain points where Texas Eastern's and Texas 
Gas's system interconnected.
    According to Texas Gas and Texas Eastern, Texas Gas and Texas 
Eastern mutually agreed to cancel the Agreement effective May 31, 1994, 
because the exchange services provided under the Agreement are no 
longer needed by either Texas Gas or Texas Eastern. Texas Gas and Texas 
Eastern indicate that there will be no abandonment of facilities 
related to the proposed abandonment of services.
    Comment date: September 28, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph F at the end of this notice.

3. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America

[Docket No. CP94-750-000]

    Take notice that on August 30, 1994, Natural Gas Pipeline Company 
of America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148, 
filed in Docket No. CP94-750-000 a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 
and 157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
for authorization to abandon certain meter runs and sidetaps, under its 
blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-402-000,1 all as 
more fully set forth in the request for authorization on file with the 
Commission and open for public inspection.
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    \1\See, 20 FERC 62,415 (1982).
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    Natural seeks authorization to abandon two 10-inch meter runs and 
two sidetaps, one 12-inch and one 8-inch, located at Natural's Volo 
Meter and Regulator Station (Volo Meter Station), Lake County, 
Illinois. Natural states that the facilities were constructed pursuant 
to an order issued June 13, 1950,2 to Texas Illinois Natural Gas 
Pipeline Company (Texas Illinois).3 Natural states that the meter 
runs were not utilized and became surplus.
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    \2\See, 9 FPC, page 105, Docket No. G-1246.
    \3\Natural acquired the assets of Texas Illinois by merger 
pursuant to an order dated September 29, 1960, issued in Docket No. 
CP60-97.
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    Natural states that Northern Illinois Gas Company (NIGAS), 
Natural's only customer, has requested changes at the Volo Meter 
Station which will allow NIGAS to receive gas at mainline pressure (800 
psig maximum vs. a current delivery pressure of 350 psig). To 
accomplish this, NIGAS has agreed to install its own regulatory runs. 
Natural states that all work will take place inside the meter site or 
within the existing right-of-way.4
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    \4\Natural states that all other facilities at the Volo Meter 
Station requiring abandonment were constructed pursuant to Sec. 2.55 
of the Commission's Regulations. Therefore, Natural is not seeking 
abandonment authorization as to them.
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    Comment date: October 24, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

4. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP94-758-000]

    Take notice that on September 2, 1994, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP94-758-000, an 
application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for 
authority to abandon a delivery tap and appurtenant facilities, all as 
more fully set forth in the application which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    Specifically, Williston Basin proposes to abandon a delivery tap 
located on the 6-inch Redwing Lateral at Station No. 489+23, in the SE 
1/4 Section 9, T149N, R101W, McKenzie County, North Dakota. Williston 
Basin states that the tap has not been used for several years and the 
landowner has requested that Williston Basin remove the above ground 
setting to ease farming operations.
    Comment date: October 24, 1994, in accordance with Standard 
Paragraph G at the end of this notice.

Standard Paragraphs

    F. Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before the comment date, 
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 a grant of the certificate and/or 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 applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
    G. Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Sec. 157.205 of the 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, the 
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and 
not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-22802 Filed 9-14-94; 8:45 am]
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