[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 31707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14743]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-543-000]


Northern Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Application for Abandonment

June 12, 1995.
    Take notice that on June 5, 1995, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1000, filed, 
in Docket No. CP95-543-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations 
for permission and approval to abandon, as non-jurisdictional 
facilities, by sale to Highlands Gathering and Processing Company 
(Highlands), certain compression, pipeline facilities, and delivery 
points, with appurtenances, located in Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton, 
and Val Verde Countries, Texas, as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Northern states that it has entered into an April 21, 1995, Asset 
Purchase Agreement with Highlands pursuant to which Highlands will 
acquire from Northern approximately 128 miles of pipeline with pipe 
diameters ranging between four to sixteen inches in Crockett, 
Schleicher, Sutton and Val Verde Counties, Texas, and seven 
transmission lateral compressor stations located in Crockett, 
Schleicher, and Sutton Counties, Texas. Additionally, Northern proposes 
to abandon and convey to Highlands all farm taps, interconnecting 
points, and delivery points located on the subject facilities. Northern 
relates that the facilities which it proposes to abandon and convey to 
Highlands include the following segments: Highlands include the 
following segments: Hulldale Segment, Hullidale Loop Segment, Hunt-
Baggett Segment, and Vinegarone Segment. Northern states that the 
segment facilities will be conveyed to Highlands for $3.1 million. 
Northern says that the subject facilities were constructed as gas 
supply facilities in order for Northern to fulfill its merchant sales 
obligation but are no longer needed by Northern as its role in the 
marketplace has changed from a merchant or natural gas to a transporter 
of natural gas.
    Northern notes that Highlands will file a companion filing, a 
Petition for Declaratory Order, which will seek a determination that 
the subject facilities of this abandonment application, once conveyed 
to Highlands, are gathering facilities, not subject to the Commission's 
jurisdiction pursuant to NGA Section 1(b). The petition was filed June 
6, 1995, in docket No. CP95-547-000.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before July 3, 1995, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426, 
a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements 
to the Commission's Rules and Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 
and 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 in any proceeding herein 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 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 designed on this application if no motion 
to intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the 
Commission on its own review of the matters 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 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 Northern to appear or to be represented at 
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-14743 Filed 6-15-95; 8:45 am]
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