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[FR Doc No: 94-22808]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP94-742-000]

 

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.; Notice of Application

September 9, 1994.
    Take notice that on August 29, 1994, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), Post Office Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251 filed 
an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an 
order granting permission and approval to abandon certain facilities at 
the location where Transco will install a new river crossing at the 
Mississippi River, and requests such authorization by October 3, 1994, 
all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Transco states that on July 6, 1994, it filed in Docket No. CP94-
645-000 an application for certificate authorization to install 
approximately 4,100 feet of 360-inch diameter pipeline by horizontal 
directional drilling under the Mississippi River, at the location of 
its established pipeline crossing corridor of the Mississippi River 
between Point Coupee and West Feliciana Parishes, Louisiana. It is 
stated that approximately 900 feet of tie-in piping on the banks of the 
river will be required to connect the drilled crossing to Transco's 
existing mainline system. Transco states that the proposed installation 
will replace two 30-inch pipelines that have been exposed and damaged 
by Mississippi River channel scour and are now inoperable.
    Transco states that by order dated August 12, 1994, the Commission 
issued a certificate to Transco authorizing installation of the 36-inch 
diameter pipeline by horizontal directional drilling.
    Transco states that the instant application seeks authorization to 
abandon the two 30-inch pipeline crossings. Transco states that the two 
30-inch pipelines will be abandoned as follows:
    (1) Approximately 7,200 feet of the lines in the river bed will be 
abandoned in place. If piggable, these lines will be pigged until they 
are free of liquids, and then each end of the sections of lines to be 
abandoned will be cut below grade and welded closed with steel plates. 
The lines to be abandoned will be filled with water.
    (2) Approximately 2,000 feet of on-bank tie-in piping will be 
removed.
    Transco states that the retirement and removal work is estimated to 
cost $179,265. It is stated that the same contractor that will install 
the new crossing will also perform the retirement and removal work.
    Transco submits that the public convenience and necessity requires 
issuance of the authorization requested herein because these 
abandonment activities are necessitated by installation of the new 
crossing of the Mississippi River. Transco requests that an order 
authorizing the abandonment activities described herein be issued by 
October 3, 1994, so that the contractor that will install the new 
crossing can also perform the retirement and removal work.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before September 26, 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 Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-22808 Filed 9-14-94; 8:45 am]
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