[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 112 (Monday, June 12, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 30856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14264]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-536-000]


Columbia Gulf Transmission Co.; Notice of Application

June 6, 1995.
    Take notice that on June 1, 1995, Columbia Gulf Transmission 
Company (Columbia Gulf), P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 
25325-1273, filed in Docket No. CP95-536-000 an application pursuant to 
Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, as amended, and Sections 157.7 and 
157.18 of the Commission's Regulations thereunder for permission and 
approval to abandon natural gas transportation and exchange services 
for Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America (Natural), all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Columbia Gulf proposes to abandon the transportation and exchange 
services provided Natural by Columbia Gulf under Columbia Gulf's Rate 
Schedules X-81 and X-105. Columbia Gulf states that pursuant to Rate 
Schedule X-81, authorized in Docket No. CP81-185, Columbia Gulf and 
Natural exchanged up to 10,000 Mcf per day of natural gas attributable 
to Natural's South Marsh Island Block 265 volumes with volumes 
available to Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia Gas) at 
the outlet of the Texaco, Inc. Henry Plant (Henry Plant), Vermilion 
Parish, Louisiana. Columbia Gulf explains that it transported Natural's 
gas from the point of receipt at Columbia Gulf's Pecan Island Plant, 
Vermilion Parish, Louisiana to the point of exchange at Columbia's 
Gulf's Rayne Compressor Station, Acadia Parish, Louisiana. Columbia 
Gulf relates that it redelivered thermally equivalent volumes of gas, 
less an adjustment for removal of liquefiable hydrocarbons, 
unaccounted-for gas and fuel, at the outlet of the Henry Plant.
    Columbia Gulf further states that under Rate Schedule X-105, 
authorized in Docket No. CP84-132, Columbia Gulf, along with Tennessee 
Gas Pipeline Company (Tennessee), transported natural gas on a firm 
basis through the South Pass Project 77 offshore facilities of up to 
64,000 Mcf per day (32,500 Mcf by Columbia Gulf) from receipt points at 
the interconnection of Columbia Gulf's and Tennessee's jointly owned 
South Pass Project 77 facilities and pipeline extending from the South 
Pass Block 78 and West Delta Block 109, offshore Louisiana, to the 
terminus of the South Pass Project 77 facilities in Plaquemines Parish, 
Louisiana.
    Columbia Gulf asserts that as a result of Natural's restructuring 
of its services pursuant to Commission Order No. 636, Natural no longer 
has a need for the transportation and exchange services available under 
Rate Schedule X-81 and X-105. Columbia Gulf declares that as a 
consequence, Natural and Columbia have agreed to an exit fee as 
contemplated by Order No. 636, in which the parties, among other 
things, agreed to terminate Natural's contractual obligations under 
Rate Schedules X-81 and X-105 through the payment of the exit fee by 
Natural to Columbia Gulf in consideration for Columbia Gulf's early 
termination and abandonment of Rate Schedules X-81 and X-105.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before June 27, 1995, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulation 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 the abandonment is 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 Columbia Gulf to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-14264 Filed 6-9-95; 8:45 am]
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