[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 7 (Friday, January 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1449-1450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-599]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-171-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

January 7, 1997.
    Take notice that on December 27, 1996, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston Texas, 
77056-5310, filed in the above docket, a request pursuant to Sections 
157.205 and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act for authorization to abandon M&R Station No. 70531 
located at approximate Mile Post 294.47 on Texas Eastern's Line 1 in 
Jackson County, Arkansas, all as more fully set forth in the request 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Texas Eastern states that this Meter Station has not been used 
since 1967 and that it anticipates no future use of this facility. 
Texas Eastern states that this Meter Station was authorized in Docket 
No. G-15076 pursuant to Federal Power Commission Order No. 240 issued 
August 27, 1958.
    Texas Eastern states that because all abandonment activity will 
take place on Texas Eastern's permanent right-of-way

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(ROW), Texas Eastern submits that the abandonment of M&R Station No. 
70531 will not result in any significant environmental impact.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commissions Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214) 
a motion to intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 
157.205 of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a 
protest to the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed 
therefor, the proposed activity is deemed to be authorized effective on 
the day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is 
filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for 
filing a protest, the instant request shall be treated as an 
application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas 
Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-599 Filed 1-9-97; 8:45 am]
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