[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 14 (Wednesday, January 22, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3274-3275]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-1445]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-188-000]


Mississippi River Transmission Corporation; Notice of Request 
Under Blanket Authorization

January 15, 1997.
    Take notice that on January 9, 1997, Mississippi River Transmission 
Corporation (MRT) 1600 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in the 
above docket a request pursuant to Secs. 157.205 and 157.212 of the 
Regulations under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-
489-000 to operate certain facilities in Arkansas as jurisdictional 
facilities to provide transportation services under Subpart G of Part 
284 of the Commission's Regulations, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Specifically, MRT requests authority to operate one 2-inch I-shape 
meter station under Subpart G of Part 284 of the Commission's 
Regulations, located no MRT's Mainline 1 in Ashley County, Arkansas. 
MRT states that these facilities were initially constructed solely to 
provide transportation of natural gas under section 311 of the Natural 
Gas Policy Act and Subpart B of the Commission's Regulations to Arkla, 
a distribution division of NorAm Energy Corporation (ARKLA).
    MRT states that the estimated volumes being delivered through these 
facilities are approximately 80,000 MMBtu annually and 216 MMBtu on a 
peak day. The cost of construction is estimated to be $9,167 and MRT 
will be reimbursed by Arkla for the total cost of construction.
    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 Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 
385.214) a motion to intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant 
to Sec. 157.205 of the Regulations

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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 If a protest is filed and not withdrawn 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-1445 Filed 1-21-97; 8:45 am]
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