[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 60276]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30248]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-83-000]


Trunkline Gas Company; Notice of Application

November 20, 1996.
    Take notice that on November 5, 1996, Trunkline Gas Company 
(Trunkline), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket 
No. CP97-83-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon by transfer to PanEnergy 
Field Services, Inc. (Field Services), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 
PanEnergy Corp, under a transfer agreement dated October 15, 1996, 
certain offshore and onshore gathering facilities located in Beauregard 
Parish, Louisiana, and Jim Wells, Bee, Goliad, Jackson, Dewitt, 
Victoria, Colorado, Wharton, Harris, Montgomery, Newton and Austin 
Counties, Texas, and Vermilion, Ship Shoal, South Timbalier, South 
Pelto, Ewing Bank and Grand Isle, Offshore Louisiana, all as more fully 
set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.\1\
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    \1\ Field Services has filed a related petition for declartory 
Order in Docket No. CP97-84-000.
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    Trunkline states that the utilization of its gathering facilities 
is changing as a result of Order No. 636 and the required unbundling of 
its transportation and gathering rates together with its customers' 
elections to cease purchasing natural gas from Trunkline. Therefore, 
Trunkline is proposing to transfer its gathering facilities to Field 
Services for operation as a stand alone gathering system on an open 
access, nonjurisdictional basis. Trunkline advises that Field Services 
would assume all future investment, operational and economic 
responsibilities for these facilities. Thus, Trunkline continues, the 
potential for these facilities to become stranded assets of Trunkline 
would be avoided, and Trunkline would not experience the attendant 
transition and abandonment costs under Order No. 636. Trunkline asserts 
that the Commission's approval of Trunkline's application is necessary 
to allow Field Services to compete for gathering business on a level 
playing field.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 11, 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) and the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(18 CFR 157.10). All protests field 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 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 
this 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 permission and approval for the proposed abandonment are 
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 Trunkline to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-30248 Filed 11-26-96; 8:45 am]
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