[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 189 (Friday, September 29, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 50565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-24208]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-650-001]


Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Amendment to Application

September 25, 1995.
    Take notice that on September 21, 1995, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar Pipeline), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, 
filed in Docket No. CP95-650-001 and amendment to its application in 
Docket No. CP95-650-000, pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas 
Act, seeking authority to abandon any certifications that may still 
surround its Bonanza-Divide Creek gathering facilities located in 
eastern Utah and western Colorado, all as more fully set forth in the 
amendment that is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    It is stated that Questar Pipeline, on July 31, 1995, in Docket No. 
CP95-650-000, and Questar Gas Management Company (QGM), on August 2, 
1995, in Docket No. CP95-658-000, filed, respectively, an abandonment 
application and a petition for declaratory order collectively providing 
for the transfer (spin down) of all of Questar Pipeline's gathering 
facilities, as well as specific anomalous ``certificated gathering'' 
and transmission facilities, to Questar Pipeline's wholly owned, 
unregulated subsidiary, QGM. Questar Pipeline explains that among the 
facilities proposed to be spun down to QGM are certain gathering 
facilities, located between Bonanza, Utah, and the Divide Creek area of 
western Colorado, that have been thoroughly described in QGM's Docket 
No. CP95-658-000 Petition for Declaratory Order.
    Questar Pipeline states that since their acquisition, despite the 
fact that, (1) it has accounted for the facilities as non-
jurisdictional gathering and (2) in its view, the gathering facilities 
have consistently met the Commission's functional tests for qualifying 
gathering facilities, certain 20 to 30 year-old certifications may 
still be linked to these facilities. Therefore, it is explained, 
Questar Pipeline, in its amendment, formally requests authority to 
abandon all certificate authorizations that may exist in connection 
with Questar Pipeline's Bonanza-Divide Creek gathering facilities.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said amendment to the application should on or before 
October 5, 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 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 Questar Pipeline to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-24208 Filed 9-28-95; 8:45 am]
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