[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 236 (Friday, December 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 64737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31023]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-116-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application To 
Abandon Service

December 2, 1996.
    Take notice that on November 22, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Applicant), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25314-1599 filed in Docket No. CP97-116-000 under Section 7(b) 
of the Natural Gas Act to abandon its interest in the Boldman 
Extraction Plant to MarkWest Hydrocarbon, Inc. (Mark West), and to sell 
its Cobb Extraction Plant to MarkWest.
    This application is filed contingent upon approval of a proposed 
settlement of Applicant's Section 4 rate proceeding in Docket No. RP95-
408-000. In accordance with the proposed settlement, Applicant proposes 
to cancel its lease of the Boldman Extraction Plant in Pike County, 
Kentucky (which is owned by MarkWest) and abandon the products 
extraction service performed there to MarkWest. Applicant also proposes 
to sell the Cobb Extraction Plant to MarkWest in Kanawha County, West 
Virginia, at net book value and abandon the services performed there to 
MarkWest.
    Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with reference 
to said application should on or before December 23, 1996, file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 (1 8 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 
this application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds 
that permission and approval of 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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-31023 Filed 12-5-96; 8:45 am]
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