[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17890-17891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9887]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-311-000]


Williams Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application To Amend 
Certificate

April 17, 1996.
    Take notice that, on April 11, 1996, Williams Natural Gas Company 
(Williams), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed an abbreviated 
application, pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, to amend the 
certificate issued on September 24, 1958, in Docket No. G-10956 (20 FPC 
390) by expanding the storage area of its Elk City Storage Field, all 
as more fully set forth in the application, which is on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    The certificate issued in Docket No. G-10956 authorized Williams 
(formerly: Cities Service Gas Company) to construct and operate the Elk 
City Storage Field, in Elk, Chautauqua, and Montgomery Counties, 
Kansas, as an underground gas storage field. Williams now requests the 
Commission to authorize it to extend the Elk City Storage Field's 
buffer zone north and west of its current location, by acquiring gas 
storage rights under approximately 2,740 acres of land in Elk and 
Montgomery Counties, Kansas. As proposed, the extension would add the 
following parcels of land to the storage area:

Montgomery County, Kansas

The west half of Section 2 in T31S, R13E.

Elk County, Kansas

All of Section 3 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 4 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 9 in T31S, R13E.
All of Section 10 in T31S, R13E.
The north half of the north half of Section 15 in T31S, R13E.
The south half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of 
Section 15 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 16 in T31S, R13E.

    Williams would acquire the subject acreage by lease, purchase, or 
through the exercise of eminent domain under the Natural Gas Act. 
Williams states that the gas wells located on the property to be 
acquired will be converted into observation wells. Williams also states 
that it believes the extension will increase the effectiveness of the 
storage area, enhance the overall efficiency of its storage operations, 
and reduce the risk of storage gas migrating to producing wells outside 
the present storage area boundary. Williams further asserts that 
extending the storage area boundary, as proposed, is both reasonable 
and required by the present and future public convenience and 
necessity.
    Any person desiring to be heard, or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before May 8, 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 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 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 same 
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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Williams to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9887 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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