[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 3 (Thursday, January 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 350]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-89]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-112-000]


 Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application for 
Authorization to Abandon Facilities

December 28, 1995.
    Take notice that, on December 19, 1995, Southern Natural Gas 
Company (Southern), AmSouth-Sonat Tower, Birmingham, Alabama 35203, 
filed an application in Docket No. CP96-112-000, pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's 
Regulations, for authorization to abandon its Alabaster Lime Lateral, 
along with a meter station and related facilities, all as more fully 
set forth in the application, which is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Southern's Alabaster Lime lateral is a 2-inch diameter pipeline 
that is approximately 1.215 miles in length. It extends from milepost 
25.969 on the Bessemer-Calera line, located in Section 3, T21S, R3W, in 
Shelby County, Alabama, to Chemical Lime Company's (ChemLime) plant in 
Section 35, T20S, R3W, in Alabaster, Alabama. Southern requests 
authorization to abandon the Alabaster Lime Lateral in-place. Southern 
also requests authorization to abandon, by removal, its meter station 
at the ChemLime plant (including the regulator) and the orderizer 
located at the tap on the Bessemer-Calera Line. Southern states that 
the Alabaster Lime Lateral and meter station which it proposes to 
abandon are used to provide interruptible transportation solely to the 
ChemLime plant, that the ChemLime plant is the only delivery point on 
the Alabaster Lime Lateral, and that ChemLime is the only customer that 
will be affected by the proposed abandonment. Southern further states 
that it seeks to abandon these facilities because the cost of keeping 
the Alabaster Lime Lateral and meter station in service has increased 
to the point that it is no longer economically feasible to do so.
    Any person desiring to be heard, or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before January 18, 1996, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington DC 
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 the 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's 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, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that a grant of the certificate is required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to intervene is timely 
filed, or 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 provide for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Southern to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-89 Filed 1-3-96; 8:45 am]
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