[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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