[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15882-15883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8465]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-304-000]


Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

March 28, 1997.
    Take notice that on March 24, 1997, Questar Pipeline Company 
(Questar), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in 
Docket No. CP97-304-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act, for permission and approval to abandon, a compressor 
and related facilities located at the Horseshoe Draw Compressor Station 
in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, all as more fully set forth in the 
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Questar requests authority to abandon one 1,085 horsepower gas 
turbine compressor, the Horseshoe Draw compressor, and associated flow-
control and automation equipment, two 24 MMcf/d dehydration units, two 
generator sets, a 2 MMBtu/d line heater and miscellaneous valves, yard 
and station piping located at the junction of Questar's Jurisdictional 
Lateral No. 6 and Questar's Main Line No. 22 in southwestern Wyoming. 
It is indicated that those facilities have not been used during the 
past five years.
    Questar states that, upon receipt of the requested abandonment 
authority, the Horseshoe Draw compressor will be physically removed 
from its present location, restaged and installed at Questar's existing 
Nightingale-Kanda-Coleman Compressor Complex also located in Sweetwater 
County, Wyoming. (Questar indicates its intent to install the Horseshoe 
Draw compressor at the Nightingale Station pursuant to 18 CFR 2.55(b). 
It is stated that related flow control and automation equipment will 
also be relocated to the Nightingale-Kanda-Coleman Compressor Complex, 
while the balance of the facilities at Questar's Horseshoe Compressor 
site will be abandoned, physically removed and scrapped. It is stated 
that the gross book and net book value of the facilities to be 
abandoned, total $782,570 and $457,804 respectively.
    Further, Questar explains that the removal of the above-described 
facilities will have no adverse impact on transmission services 
provided by Questar. Questar asserts that its abandonment project does 
not constitute a major Federal action that could significantly affect 
the quality of the human environment, since all principal facilities to 
be removed are skid-mounted, and all abandonment activities will take 
place within the confines of the existing Horseshoe Draw Compressor 
Station yard.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before April 14, 1997, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20426, a 
motion to intervene or a

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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 Questar to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-8465 Filed 4-2-97; 8:45 am]
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