[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 91 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21173-21174]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11590]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-281-000]


West Texas Gas, Inc.; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order of 
Gathering Status

April 30, 1996.
    Take notice that on March 25, 1996, West Texas Gas, Inc. (WTG) 
petitioned the Commission, pursuant to Rule 207 of the Commission's 
Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.207, to issue an order 
declaring that certain pipeline facilities, for which Northern Natural 
Gas Company (Northern) has sought approval to abandon, by sale to WTG, 
in Docket No. CP96-215-000, are gathering facilities, exempt from the 
Commission's jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA), all as more fully set forth in this request which is on file 
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    WTG and Northern have entered into a Conveyance, Assignment and 
Bill of Sale, dated December 29, 1995, under

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which Northern is to transfer to WTG certain facilities, with 
appurtenances, located in Irion and Reagan Counties, Texas, and certain 
small volume measuring stations, with appurtenances, located in various 
counties in Texas. The facilities to be transferred include pipeline, 
valves, and measuring and regulating equipment and contain no 
compressors. WTG plans, after consummating the acquisition, to use the 
subject facilities to deliver gas from its Big Lake Processing Plant in 
Reagan County to the Rocker B-2 Plant for further processing.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before May 21, 1996, file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 and 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 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 petition if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that the request should be granted. If a motion for leave to 
intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission on its 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 WTG to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-11590 Filed 5-8-96; 8:45 am]
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