[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 8 (Monday, January 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1744-1745]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-760]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-173-000]


Truckline Gas Company; Notice of Application

January 8, 1997.
    Take notice that on December 30, 1996, Trunkline Gas Company 
(Trunkline), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket 
No. CP97-173-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act (NGA) for permission and approval to abandon by transfer to 
PanEnergy Field Services, Inc. (Field Services), a wholly-owned 
subsidiary of PanEnergy Corp, under a transfer agreement dated December 
20, 1996, certain pipeline and measuring facilities with appurtenances, 
located in Hidalgo, Brooks and Jim Wells Counties, Texas, all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    By this application, Trunkline is seeking abandonment of 
approximately 105 miles of various diameter pipeline (ranging from 4 
inches to 20 inches), measurement facilities and appurtenances, 
referred to as the South Texas Facilities, locate din Hidalgo, Brooks, 
and Jim Wells Counties, Texas. The South Texas Facilities are located 
upstream of Field Services' LaGloria Processing Plant in Jim Wells 
County, Texas, situated approximately 80 miles south of Trunkline's 
Beeville Compressor Station in Bee County, Texas.
    Trunkline states that the utilization of its facilities is changing 
as a result of Order No. 636 and the required unbundling of its 
transportation and gathering rates together with its customers' 
elections to cease purchasing natural gas from Trunkline. Trunkline 
states that it is proposing to transfer the facilities to Field 
Services for operation on an open access, non-jurisdictional basis. 
Trunkline states that Field Services will assume all future investment, 
operational and economic responsibilities for these facilities.
    Trunkline states that coincident with this application for 
abandonment authority, Field Services is filing a Petition for 
Declaratory Order \1\ seeking an affirmative declaration that the

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facilities behind the LaGloria Processing Plant and their subsequent 
ownership and operation by Field Services are gathering and thus exempt 
from NGA jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of the NGA.
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    \1\ Field Services has filed a related petition for declaratory 
order in Docket No. CP97-174-000.
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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before January 29, 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 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 Trunkline to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-760 Filed 1-10-97; 8:45 am]
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