[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 65320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-30714]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-100-000]
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, Mississippi River
Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
December 13, 1995.
Take notice that on December 8, 1995, Natural Gas Pipeline Company
of America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148,
and Mississippi River Transmission Corporation (MRT), 9900 Clayton
Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63124, filed in Docket No. CP96-100-000,
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), as amended, and
Section 157.7 and 157.18 of the Commission's Regulations thereunder, a
joint application requesting permission and approval for abandonment,
effective January 1, 1996, a sale/purchase/exchange service performed
under Natural's Rate Schedule X-57 and MRT's Rate Schedule X-13
authorized in Natural's Docket No. CP75-224, as amended, and MRT's
Docket No. CP75-226, as amended, all as more fully set forth in the
application on file with the Commission.
Natural and MRT state that they are parties to a gas exchange
agreement and sales agreement dated December 23, 1974, as amended
(Agreement), which became Natural's Rate Schedule X-57 and MRT's Rate
Schedule X-13. It is also stated that pursuant to the agreement, as
amended, Natural: 1) received in Wheeler County, Texas MRT's reserves
on a firm basis up to 15,000 Mcf of natural gas per day which MRT
purchases in the Mills Ranch Field in Wheeler County, Texas and 2)
redeliver to MRT in Clinton County, Illinois, Randolph County, Arkansas
and Harrison County, Texas, eighty nine percent (89%) of the volumes
delivered by MRT to Natural commencing April 1 each year and forty
three percent (43%) of the volumes delivered by MRT to Natural during
the six (6) months commencing October 1 each year. Natural and MRT
further state that MRT sold and Natural purchased the remainder of the
volumes received from MRT.\1\
\1\ The percentage of gas purchased and transported by Natural
varies according to the time of the year and the year in question.
Natural's purchase obligation is subject to a cap of the applicable
percentage applied to 15,000 Mcf of gas per day.
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Natural and MRT state that by a letter agreement dated October 27,
1995, they agreed to terminate the Agreement, as amended, effective
January 1, 1996. Therefore, by the present joint application, Natural
and MRT request authority to abandon, effective January 1, 1996, the
sale/purchase/exchange service performed under the Agreement, as
amended, and Natural's Rate Schedule X-57 and MRT's Rate Schedule X-13
authorized in Natural's Docket No. CP75-224, as amended, and MRT's
Docket No. 75-226, as amended.
Natural and MRT state that no facilities are proposed to be
abandoned.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before January 3, 1996, 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 Natural or MRT to appear or be represented
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-30714 Filed 12-18-95; 8:45 am]
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