[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 60 (Friday, March 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14895-14896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7849]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-262-000]


Ashland Exploration, Inc.; Notice of Application

March 24, 1997.
    Take notice that on March 21, 1997, Ashland Exploration, Inc. 
(Ashland), 14701 Saint Mary's Lane, Houston, Texas 77079, completed the 
filing of an application for abandonment pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act initially submitted on February 24, 1997. Ashland 
requests authorization to abandon, by sale, its jurisdictional 
facilities in the Martha Field to Meridian Exploration Corp. and Abarta 
Oil & Gas Company, Inc., all as more fully set forth in the application 
which is on file with the Commission and open to the public for 
inspection.
    The facilities to be abandoned consist of approximately 29.6 miles 
of 6-inch and 8-inch diameter pipeline extending from the outlet of 
Ashland's gas processing plant in Lawrence County, Kentucky to the 
point where those facilities intersect with the facilities of Tennessee 
Gas Pipeline Company near Burnaugh, Kentucky, and three associated 
field taps.
    Any persons desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before

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April 14, 1997, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, N.E., 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 and 18 CFR 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 the 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 the request should be granted. 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 Ashland to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-7849 Filed 3-27-97; 8:45 am]
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