[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 230 (Wednesday, November 27, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 60269]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-30255]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-89-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

November 21, 1996.
    Take notice that on November 12, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company 
(El Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket 
No. CP97-89-000, a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of 
the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 
and 157.216) for authorization to abandon a delivery point (Chamberino 
Meter Station) and the service related thereto in Dona Ana County, New 
Mexico, under the blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-
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.
    El Paso states that it provides firm transportation service for the 
City of Las Cruces, New Mexico (Las Cruces) at the Chamberino Meter 
Station pursuant to the terms and conditions of a Transportation 
Service Agreement dated August 15, 1991.
    El Paso further states that by letter dated June 3, 1996, Las 
Cruces notified El Paso of its desire to cease the receipt of natural 
gas service at the Chamberino Meter Station because Las Cruces has 
completed the construction of its Afton Transmission Line and is 
therefor able to receive all of the natural gas requirements formerly 
received at the Chamberino Meter Station at El Paso's existing Afton 
Meter Station. Subsequently, by letter agreement dated July 3, 1996, El 
Paso and Las Cruces agreed that the Chamberino Meter Station would be 
abandoned and the facilities removed upon receipt of the appropriate 
authorization from the Commission.
    El Paso says there will be no adverse environmental effects from 
the proposed abandonment. El Paso states that the metering facility 
will be removed with only minimal ground disturbance which will be 
limited to existing, previously-disturbed right-of-way.
    El Paso states that it has provided written notification of the 
proposed abandonment to the New Mexico Public Service Commission.
    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 to be 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 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-30255 Filed 11-26-96; 8:45 am]
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