[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41140-41141]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20038]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-662-000]


Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

August 1, 1996.
    Take notice that on July 24, 1996, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar), 79 South State Street, P.O. Box 11450, Salt Lake City, Utah 
84147, filed in Docket No. CP96-662-000 a request pursuant to Sections 
157.205 and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216(b)) for authorization to 
abandon, by removal, the Pace, Shute Creek, and Isom District Regulator 
Stations (DRS) and appurtenant facilities located in Summit County, 
Utah, and Lincoln and Uinta Counties, Wyoming, under the blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-491-000, pursuant to Section 7(b) 
of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Questar states that Mountain Fuel Supply Company (Mountain Fuel), 
the only customer served through these facilities, supports the 
abandonment of the subject facilities. Mountain Fuel has installed a 
low-pressure distribution line adjacent to the Pace and Isom DRSs to 
service existing residential customers as well as small commercial 
customers. Questar states that these facilities are no longer necessary 
because Mountain Fuel has bypassed the DRS facilities and is providing 
service to these areas through other portions of Mountain Fuel's 
existing distribution system. In reference to its Shute Creek DRS, 
Questar states that Mountain Fuel has asserted that it is removing its 
delivery point facilities at the Shute Creek DRS and will no longer 
provide natural gas service to the end-user at this location. Questar 
asserts that the end-user, Exxon Company, U.S.A., has made other supply 
arrangements for its plant-fuel requirements. Questar notes that 
Mountain Fuel has not utilized the Shute Creek facilities since 1991. 
Questar states that the total gross investment associated with the 
facilities proposed to be abandoned is $66,870. Questar asserts that it 
will notify the public service commissions of Utah and Wyoming of the 
request under blanket authorization.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
the proposed activity shall be deemed authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and 
not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for

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authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-20038 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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