[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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