[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 4 (Tuesday, January 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-202]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-166-000]


Southern Natural Gas Company, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; 
Notice of Application

December 31, 1996.
    Take notice that on December 23, 1996, Southern Natural Gas Company 
(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563 and Tennessee 
Gas Pipeline Company (Tennessee) (jointly referred to as Applicants), 
1010 Milam Street, P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas, 77252-2511, filed in 
Docket No. CP97-166-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon an exchange 
service between Applicants, which was authorized in Docket No. G-4715, 
all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    Applicants propose to abandon an exchange service between 
themselves under Southern's Rate Schedule X-8 and Tennessee's Rate 
Schedule X-2. Applicants state that the exchange service was last 
utilized in May, 1993. Applicants assert that there is no outstanding 
imbalance. Applicants further state that by letter agreement, both 
parties to the exchange service have agreed to terminate the exchange.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to said application should on or before January 21, 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 18 CFR 
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 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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will 
be unnecessary for Applicants to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-202 Filed 1-6-97; 8:45 am]
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