[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15797-15798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8741]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-284-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application

April 3, 1996.
    Take notice that on March 28, 1996, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (TGPL), P.O. Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-284-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon certain firm 
sales service provided to Elizabethtown Gas Company (Elizabethtown), 
under TGPL's Rate Schedule FS, which was authorized in Docket No. CP88-
391 et al., all as more fully set forth in the application on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    TGPL states that it entered into two firm sales agreements with 
Elizabethtown on August 1, 1991, under which TGPL sells gas to 
Elizabethtown under Rate Schedule FS with Daily Sales Entitlements of 
10,000 Mcf/day, and 14,702 Mcf/day (as amended, ``FS Agreements''). The 
FS Agreements were amended effective April 1, 1995.
    TGPL states that, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article IV of 
the FS Service Agreements, TGPL delivers gas to Elizabethtown at 
various upstream points of delivery. TGPL states that it acts as agent 
for Elizabethtown for the purpose of arranging for the transportation 
of gas purchased from the points of delivery to the points of 
redelivery identified in each of Elizabethtown's FS Agreements.
    TGPL states that, by this application, TGPL seeks authorization to 
abandon the FS Agreement for Daily Sales Entitlement of 10,000 Mcf 
effective March 31, 1996, pursuant to

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Elizabethtown's election to terminate that agreement.
    TGPL states that Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreement 
between TGPL and Elizabethtown provides that at the end of the primary 
term, and on each anniversary date thereafter, the term of the Service 
Agreement will be extended by successive one Contract Year periods 
unless either party notifies the other in writing not less than two 
Contract Years prior to the end of the primary term or two Contract 
Years prior to any anniversary date thereafter, as the case may be, of 
its election not to extend the term of the Service Agreement. TGPL 
states that Paragraph 1 of Article II of the FS Agreement provides that 
for purposes of the FS Agreement, ``Contract Year'' is defined as the 
period from the effective date (specified as November 30, 1990) through 
March 31, 1991, and each twelve month period thereafter for the term of 
the agreement.
    TGPL further states that the primary term of the 10,000 FS 
Agreement ended July 31, 1994, but its term was extended in accordance 
with Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreement. TGPL states that, 
by letter dated March 28, 1994, Elizabethtown provided TGPL with its 
two-year notice to terminate the FS Agreement, effectively terminating 
the FS Agreement as of March 31, 1996.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 24, 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) 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 TGPL to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-8741 Filed 4-8-96; 8:45 am]
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