[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 147 (Tuesday, July 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39636-39637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-19266]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-644-000]


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

July 24, 1996.
    Take notice that on July 16, 1996, West Texas Gas, Inc. (WTG), 211 
North Colorado, Midland, Texas 79701, filed in Docket No. CP96-644-000 
a petition pursuant to Rule 207 of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.207) for a declaratory order that certain 
pipeline facilities, to be abandoned by Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), would be gathering facilities, upon the acquisition by WTG, 
and therefore would be exempt from the jurisdiction of the Commission 
under Section 1(b) of the Natural Gas Act.
    WTG states that the facilities consists of approximately 14 miles 
of 6-inch diameter pipeline and other appurtenant facilities. WTG 
states further that WTG's petition is the companion to the application 
filed by Northern on June 21, 1996 and now

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pending in Docket No. CP96-590-000, to abandon the subject facilities.
    It is stated that the facilities are located in Hansford and 
Hutchinson Counties, Texas.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before August 14, 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). 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-19266 Filed 7-29-96; 8:45 am]
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