[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 23 (Friday, February 2, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 3930]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2180]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-150-000]


Chevron U.S.A. Inc.; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order

January 29, 1996.
    Take notice that on January 5, 1996, Chevron U.S.A. Inc. (Chevron), 
Post Office Box 3725, Houston, Texas 77253-3725, filed in Docket No. 
CP96-150-000 a petition pursuant to Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA) for a declaratory order exempting facilities to be acquired from 
Transwestern Pipeline Company (Transwestern) from Commission regulation 
under the NGA, all as more fully set forth in the petition on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Chevron proposes to purchase from Transwestern 48.3 miles of 20-
inch pipeline lateral and 3.4 miles of 6-inch pipeline lateral, both 
located in Pecos County, Texas, for use in Chevron's gathering 
operations. It is stated that Transwestern filed a request to abandon 
the facilities by sale to Chevron in Docket No. CP96-119-000. It is 
asserted that although the facilities are presently certificated as 
transmission facilities, their primary function, on acquisition by 
Chevron, would be gathering. It is further asserted that the facilities 
and their proposed use by Chevron meet the Commission's criteria to 
support a finding of non-jurisdictional gathering function. It is 
explained that the facilities will be operated by Warren Petroleum 
Company, a division of Chevron, which is a producer of natural gas and 
oil, and not subject to Commission regulation. Chevron requests that 
the facilities be refunctionalized on acquisition from Transwestern.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before February 20, 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). 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-2180 Filed 2-1-96; 8:45 am]
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