[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 153 (Wednesday, August 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41133-41134]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-20039]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-668-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order and Application for Certificate

August 1, 1996.
    Take notice that on July 26, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, SE., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25325-1273, filed in Docket No. CP96-668-000 a petition 
pursuant to Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Rule 207(a)(2) 
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.207 
(a)(2)), requesting that the Commission issue an order declaring that 
certain existing facilities now functionalized as gathering facilities 
should be refunctionalized as transmission facilities. Columbia's 
filing also is an application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the NGA for a 
certificate to operate the facilities as jurisdictional transmission 
facilities, all as more fully set forth in the petition and application 
on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Columbia states that, in a related application filed in Docket No. 
CP96-386-000 on April 29, 1996, to spin-down certain of its gathering 
facilities to Columbia Natural Resources, Inc. (CNR), it mentioned that 
it would be filing the instant petition to refunctionalize certain 
gathering facilities to transmission. Columbia advises that some of 
these facilities are located between facilities to be sold to CNR and 
Columbia's transmission facilities. Columbia comments that such 
refunctionalization would eliminate the possibility that a shipper 
would pay gathering charges to both CNR and Columbia if, prior to the 
proposed abandonment, only one such gathering charge would have been 
paid.
    Further, Columbia states that, since the following facilities for 
which it seeks refunctionalization would serve a transmission function, 
Columbia is requesting that they be certificated as jurisdictional 
transmission facilities:

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                                                                   Measuring    Regulator                       
         Complete pipeline                 Partial pipeline         station      station     Compressor station 
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B-26...............................  V-2........................       804441         7470  Inez.               

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B-29...............................  V-36.......................       804127                                   
B-125..............................  P-28.......................       802859                                   
B-131..............................  V-42.......................       802928                                   
B-48...............................  PW-4534....................       802938                                   
N-21...............................  PW-4645....................       805981                                   
B-18 Loop..........................  PW-4661                                                                    
P-118                                                                                                           
P-137                                                                                                           
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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition and application should on or before August 
22, 1996, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
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 
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be 
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on 
the application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, 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 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-20039 Filed 8-6-96; 8:45 am]
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