[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 246 (Friday, December 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67327-67328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32290]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-149-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

December 16, 1996.
    Take notice that on December 11, 1996, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642 
filed in Docket No. CP97-149-000, an application pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an order granting permission and 
approval to abandon a certain exchange service which was once required 
for exchange of gas between Texas Eastern and Consolidated System LNG 
Company (Consolidated). Texas Eastern requests that the abandonment be 
effective on the date of issuance of the Commission order.
    It is stated that on February 22, 1978, the Commission issued an 
order in Docket No. CP77-418-000 granting Texas Eastern and 
Consolidated authorization to exchange natural gas. Texas Eastern 
states that such service was rendered between Texas Eastern and 
Consolidated pursuant to the terms and conditions of the exchange 
agreement dated May 20, 1977 (Agreement), which is included as Rate 
Schedule X-86 in Texas Eastern's FERC Gas Tariff, Original Volume No. 
2.
    Pursuant to the Agreement, Consolidated states that it transported 
vaporized natural gas from its LNG regasification facility at Cove 
Point, Maryland, through its pipeline in Loudoun, Virginia for delivery 
to Texas Eastern's pipeline system at points of interconnection near 
Chambersburg and Perulack, Pennsylvania. It is further stated that 
Texas Eastern would concurrently exchange an equivalent quantity of gas 
at existing delivery points connecting Texas Eastern's pipeline system 
to the pipeline system of Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation as set 
forth in the Agreement.
    Texas Eastern further states that the volume of gas authorized to 
be exchanged was a total maximum daily quantity of 365,000 Dth per day 
of vaporized natural gas, plus a maximum day surge allowance of up to 
20% above such average daily quantity as authorized by the Order.
    It is also stated that Consolidated's corresponding authorization 
for the exchange service with Texas Eastern was previously abandoned 
pursuant to the Commission's Order Approving Contest Settlement issued 
January 28, 1988 (42 F.E.R.C. para.61,078).
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before January 6, 1997 file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 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 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 
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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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-32290 Filed 12-19-96; 8:45 am]
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