[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38443-38444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18745]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-634-000]


Mississippi River Transmission Corporation; Texas Gas 
Transmission Corporation; Notice of Joint Application

July 18, 1996.
    Take notice that on July 11, 1996, Mississippi River Transmission 
Corporation (MRT), 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas 77002 and Texas Gas 
Transmission Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro, 
Kentucky 42301, filed a joint application pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act requesting authority to abandon two exchange 
agreements, represented by MRT's Rate Schedules X-3 and X-10 and Texas 
Gas' Rate Schedules X-39 and X-60 and one transportation service 
represented by MRT's Rate Schedule X-22, all as more fully set forth in 
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    MRT's Rate Schedule X-3 and Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-39 were 
originally certificated by an order issued by the Commission in Docket 
No. CP72-97. This exchange agreement covered the exchange of natural 
gas at the outlets of the gasoline plants of Union Texas Petroleum in 
Bossier Parish, Louisiana and of Southwest Gas Producing Company in 
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, where both MRT and Texas Gas received gas 
produced in fields in northern Louisiana.
    MRT's Rate Schedule X-10 and Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-60 were 
originally certificated in Docket No. CP74-243. This exchange covered 
the delivery from one party to the other at one of two exchange points 
located at the intersections of MRT's and Texas Gas' pipelines near 
Texas Gas' Bastrop, Louisiana, compressor station and MRT's Unionville, 
Louisiana compressor station. This exchange allowed MRT to inject 
maximum volumes of gas into its West and East Unionville Storage Fields 
during the summer injection period to help meet its winter season 
requirements.
    MRT's Rate Schedule X-22 was originally certificated in Docket No. 
CP86-87. This transportation agreement allowed MRT to transport up to 
10,000 Mcf/day on an interruptible basis for Texas Gas. Texas Gas was 
to purchase gas from Amoco Production Company's (Amoco) Woodlawn field 
in Harrison County, Texas to be delivered into an interconnection to 
MRT at the outlet side of Damson Gas Processing Company's Woodlawn 
field processing plant. MRT would then redeliver equivalent quantities 
of gas to Texas Gas by reducing amounts delivered to MRT by Union Texas 
Petroleum and by Kerr-McGee Corporation from their plants in Bossier 
and Lincoln Parishes, Louisiana.
    MRT and Texas Gas state that these arrangements are no longer 
necessary or beneficial to the parties and have been terminated 
pursuant to mutual written agreement of the parties. Neither MRT or 
Texas Gas propose to abandon or rearrange any of their facilities as a 
result of the proposed abandonment.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make a protest with reference 
to said application should, on or before August 8, 1996, file with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC. 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 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the Commission 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

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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 MRT or Texas Gas to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-18745 Filed 7-23-96; 8:45 am]
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