[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 243 (Tuesday, December 17, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 66270-66271]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31901]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-138-000]


Columbia Gulf Transmission Company; Notice of Application

December 11, 1996.
    Take notice that on December 5, 1996, Columbia Gulf Transmission 
Company (CGT), 2603 Augusta, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77210-4621, 
filed in Docket No. CP97-138-000, an application pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon an 
exchange interconnection and related facilities with Tennessee Gas 
Pipeline Company (Tennessee), which were authorized in Docket No. CP64-
141, all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    CGT proposes to abandon an exchange interconnection with Tennessee 
located in La Salle Parish, Louisiana. CGT states that the facilities 
proposed for abandonment were constructed in 1965 as an emergency

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interconnection between the pipeline systems of CGT and Tennessee. CGT 
asserts that as a result of existing operations of the pipeline systems 
and the existence of a similar emergency interconnection located in 
Rowan County, Kentucky, the facilities proposed for abandonment are no 
longer needed. CGT further asserts that the proposed abandonment will 
have no impact on any existing customer.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to said application should on or before January 2, 1997, 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 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 therein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment 
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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will 
be unnecessary for CGT to appear or be represented at the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-31901 Filed 12-16-96; 8:45 am]
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