[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6988-6989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4044]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-185-000]


ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

February 16, 1996.
    Take notice that on February 12, 1996, ANR Pipeline Company 
(``ANR''), 500 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243, filed an 
abbreviated application (``Application'') pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act (``NGA''), as amended, for an order granting 
permission and approval to abandon by sale (``spinoff'') to GPM Gas 
Corporation (``GPM'') certain gathering facilities and a 15.1 mile 
pipeline segment which is currently functionalized as transmission, all 
as more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission 
and open to public inspection.
    ANR has requested that the Commission issue an order to be 
effective July 1, 1996.
    ANR states that it has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement 
(Agreement) wherein ANR has agreed, subject to necessary Commission 
authorizations, to sell the GPM certain of ANR's gathering facilities 
and the 15.1 mile segment of transmission pipeline. These facilities 
are comprised of five discrete areas in northwest Oklahoma: (i) 
Laverne; (ii) Lovedale; (iii) Woodward; (iv) Korfman; and (v) 
Weatherford. GPM, in turn, will assume all operations of these 
facilities and provide gathering services through them.
    In addition, GPM has requested of ANR that ANR request the FERC to 
provide confidential treatment to the following information otherwise 
to have been included in the public filing of this application.
    1. The price to be paid by GPM to ANR for the assets being 
abandoned and the terms relating to those payments, which are contained 
in the Agreement and in Exhibit Y to the abandonment application; and
    2. The price and term for which GPM will provide gas gathering 
service to ANR as to gas ANR is obliged to purchase or otherwise 
controls for a period from the date of the abandonment and continuing 
for an agreed time beyond expiration of the ``default contract'' (the 
two year period following the abandonment and transfer), which is 
contained in exhibits to the Agreement (Schedule F, Tab 1).
    With respect to its remaining southwest gathering facilities, in an 
application filed contemporaneously with this Application in Docket No. 
CP96-186-000, ANR states that it is proposing to: (1) Abandon such 
facilities by transfer or ``spindown'' to ANR Field Services Company; 
or (2) refunctionalize them to transmission. ANR states that due to the 
bulk and nature of the documents involved and the large service list in 
this case certain material has been omitted from certain of the filed 
copies and the service copies of the filing. ANR states that these 
materials will be available for public inspection at the following 
locations:

ANR Pipeline Company, 500 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243, 
Contact: Bruce C. Hopper, Telephone: 313/496-2492
ANR Pipeline Company, 2000 M Street, N.W. #300, Washington, DC 20036, 
Contact: Jens Faaborg, Telephone: 202/331-4612
ANR Pipeline Company, Nine Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas 77046, 
Contact: Steven R. Anderson, Telephone: 713/877-7625
GPM Gas Services Company, B. J. Miller, 210 Park Avenue #2500, Oklahoma 
City, OK 73102-5627, Telephone: 405/270-8192

    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before March 8, 1996, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426, 
a petition 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 filed a petition 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 
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application if no petition to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, 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 petition for leave 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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will 
be unnecessary for ANR to appear or be represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
FR Doc. 96-4044 Filed 2-22-96; 8:45 am]
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