[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 188 (Thursday, September 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 50480]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24667]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-796-000]


Manta Ray Offshore Gathering Company, L.L.C.; Notice of Petition 
for Declaratory Order

September 20, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 17, 1996, Manta Ray Offshore 
Gathering Company, L.L.C. (Applicant), 600 Travis, 7200 Texas Commerce 
Tower, Houston, Texas 77002, filed a petition under Rule 207 of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, for an order declaring a 
new lateral addition to its gathering system exempt from the 
Commission's jurisdiction under Section 1(b), all as more fully set 
forth in the petition, which is on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    Applicant states that the proposed lateral will consist of 47 miles 
of 24-inch line. The lateral will run from the Bullwinkle platform in 
Green Canyon Block 65, to its system end at the Ship Shoal Block 207 
platform. Throughput capacity of the new lateral will be 300,000 Mcf 
per day.
    Applicant states that the proposed lateral is needed to accommodate 
deep water reserves being dedicated to it in the Green Canyon area and 
to access interstate capacity. Applicant states further, that it 
determined that it needs new capacity in this area and that the lateral 
will allow maximum use of its existing system.
    Accordingly, any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest 
with reference to said petition should on or before September 27, 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 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-24667 Filed 9-25-96; 8:45 am]
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