[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 30 (Thursday, February 13, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6766]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3553]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-227-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

February 7, 1997.
    Take notice that on February 4, 1997, El Paso Natural (El Paso), 
Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed a request with the 
Commission in Docket No. CP97-227-000, pursuant to Sections 157.205, 
and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas 
Act (NGA) for authorization to abandon certain miscellaneous tap and 
meter facilities and the service rendered by means thereof authorized 
in blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000, all as more 
fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    El Paso proposes to abandon 34 miscellaneous facilities, with 
associated appurtenances and related natural gas service rendered by 
such facilities. The facilities consist of 32 taps and two meter 
stations, and were required by El Paso to facilitate, generally, the 
delivery and/or measurement and sale of natural gas from its interstate 
transmission pipeline system to certain customers for resale. El Paso 
states that they would remove such facilities and place in stock the 
salvable materials and scrap the nonsalvable items, without material 
change in its average cost-of-service. El Paso also states that they 
have examined the abandonment action proposed and anticipates no 
adverse environmental effects of each action that might be incurred, 
and should any occur, they would be minor and of a temporary nature.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after the 
Commission has issued this notice, file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 
Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene or 
notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of the 
Regulations under the NGA (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If 
no protest is filed within the allowed time, the proposed activity 
shall be deemed to be authorized effective 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 If a protest is filed and not withdrawn 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 NGA.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-3553 Filed 2-12-97; 8:45 am]
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