[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 81 (Monday, April 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22923-22924]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-10805]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-331-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application

April 22, 1997.
    Take notice that on April 9, 1997, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), Post Office Box

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1396, Houston, Texas 77251, filed in Docket No. CP97-331-000, an 
abbreviated application pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas 
Act, for a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing 
Transco's 1998 Cherokee Expansion Project, an expansion of Transco's 
pipeline system to provide 87,070 dekatherms per day of new firm 
incremental transportation capacity for two shippers, all as more fully 
set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Transco proposes to construct and operate the following facilities 
to create the firm transportation capacity for the Cherokee Expansion:
    1. 11.22 miles of 48-inch pipeline loop from milepost 826.30 to 
milepost 837.52 on Transco's mainline in Marengo County, Alabama;
    2. A new 15,000 HP compressor station, located at milepost 1007.65 
on Transco's mainline in Coweta County, Georgia;
    3. A new 8,000 HP compressor at Station 125, including a separate 
compressor building and an electrical substation, in Walton County, 
Georgia;
    4. Uprate of Transco's existing ``Georgia Extension,'' consisting 
of approximately 27 miles of 16-inch pipeline in Walton and Gwinnett 
Counties, Georgia, from 780 psig to 960 psig; and
    5. Other appurtenant facilities.
    Transco also seeks authorization to abandon in place a 0.13 mile 
segment of the Georgia Extension, from milepost 26.96 to milepost 
27.09. Transco states that after installation of the facilities 
proposed herein, the segment of pipe will no longer be needed. Transco 
estimates that the proposed facilities will cost $68,000,000.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before May 13, 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 a grant of the certificate is 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 procedures herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Losi D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-10805 Filed 4-25-97; 8:45 am]
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