[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 246 (Friday, December 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 66545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-31124]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-90-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., CNG Transmission Corp., Texas
Eastern Transmission Corp.; Notice of Application
December 15, 1995.
Take notice that on December 1, 1995, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston,West
Virginia 25314-1599, CNG Transmission Corporation (CNGT), 445 West Main
Street, Clarksburg, West Virginia 26301, and Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas
77056-5310, jointly filed an application in Docket No. CP96-90-000
pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an order granting
permission and approval to abandon the service rendered pursuant to an
agreement to purchase and exchange gas of certain production properties
and facilities and local purchases of gas owned by Columbia in the
Benezette Field in Cameron, Clearfield, and Elk Counties, Pennsylvania,
with certain production properties and facilities and local purchases
of gas in the Artemas Field in Bedford County, Pennsylvania, owned by
CNGT, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on file
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
It is stated that Columbia and CNGT exchanged the properties,
facilities, and gas purchase agreements related to the fields to enable
Columbia to activate and operate the Artemas Storage Field, and to
enable CNGT to acquire property interests in the Benezette Production
Field for its storage development. Columbia's Rate Schedule X-34,
CNGT's Rate Schedule X-8, and Texas Eastern's Rate Schedule X-60
provided for the exchange of the remaining recoverable gas reserves
underlying Columbia's and CNGT's respective gas purchase agreements,
with Texas Eastern delivering Columbia's volumes in Texas Eastern's
Zone C in Pennsylvania or at other points interconnection between
Columbia and Texas Eastern. Texas Eastern deducted equivalent volumes
from its scheduled delivery to CNGT at established delivery points in
Zone C.
It is also stated that the specific reserve volumes involved in the
March 31, 1971, Agreement were 2,082,000 Mcf from Columbia to CNGT and
214,000 Mcf from CNGT to Columbia. CNGT resold and transported the
difference in reserves transferred to Columbia for the costs incurred
by CNGT in measuring, transporting, and compressing the gas into CNGT's
transmission system. An existing exchange between Columbia and CNGT in
the Benezette, Nolo, and Rockton Fields, was modified so that gas
purchased in the Nolo Field, Indiana county, Pennsylvania, could be
delivered to Columbia in exchange for gas purchased by Columbia in the
Rockton Field, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. The rate schedules for
which abandonment authority is sought are as follows:
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Docket No. Company
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Rate schedule:
CP72-173 Columbia....................... X-34
CP72-173 CNGT........................... X-8
CP72-173 Texas Eastern.................. X-60
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Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before January 5, 1996, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426,
a motion to intervene or 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 Applicants to appear or be represented at
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-31124 Filed 12-21-95; 8:45 am]
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