[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 7 (Friday, January 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1445-1446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-555]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RP95-408-014]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Proposed Changes 
in FERC Gas Tariff

January 6, 1997.
    Take notice that on December 31, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas 
Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1, the tariff sheets set forth on 
Appendix A to the filing, to become effective February 1, 1997.
    Columbia states that on November 22, 1996, it filed an Offer of 
Settlement (Settlement) in this proceeding and in several other 
dockets. In submitting the Settlement, Columbia represented that it 
would seek Commission authorization to move the Settlement rates into 
effect pending evaluation of the Settlement by the Presiding 
Administrative Law Judge and the Commission.
    Columbia states further that the Settlement is supported, or not 
opposed, by all of Columbia's customers, as well as other parties of 
interest, including producers, industrial users, and representatives of 
consumer interests at the State level. Accordingly, the filing seeks to 
move the Settlement rates into effect on February 1, 1997, as to all 
customers. Columbia states that it is submitting this request at the 
urging of its customers, who desire to realize the

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benefits of their bargain as soon as possible.
    Any person desiring to protect this filing should file a protest 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Section 385.211 of the 
Commission's Rules and Regulations. All such protest must be filed in 
accordance with Section 154.210 of the Commission's Regulations. 
Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make protestants 
parties to the proceeding. Copies of this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection in the Public 
Reference Room.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-555 Filed 1-9-97; 8:45 am]
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