[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 101 (Tuesday, May 27, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 28690]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-13715]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-522-000]


Florida Gas Transmission Company and Southern Natural Gas 
Company; Notice of Joint Application To Abandon Transportation Service 
and Service Agreement

May 20, 1997.
    Take notice that on May 15, 1997, Florida Gas Transmission Company 
(Florida Gas), 1400 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77251-1188 and 
Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, 
Alabama 35202-2563, filed a joint application in Docket No. CP97-522-
000, requesting: (1) Permission and approval, pursuant to section 7(b) 
of the Natural Gas Act, to abandon the transportation service that 
Florida Gas used to provide to Southern under Florida Gas Rate Schedule 
X-18 along with the subject August 4, 1980 transportation service 
agreement (August 4 Agreement); and (2) any other authorizations deemed 
necessary to implement the abandonment (as proposed), all as more fully 
set forth in the application, which is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    The Applicants state that, under the terms of the August 4 
Agreement, Florida Gas transported Southern's 50 percent share of gas 
purchased in the Brazos Area, offshore Texas (up to 8,300 MMBtu/day) 
from an interconnection between facilities authorized in Docket No. 
CP80-211 \1\ and Florida Gas' Kain Lateral, in Matagorda County, Texas, 
to an interconnection between the pipeline facilities of Florida Gas 
and Southern, in Washington Parish, Louisiana. The August 4 Agreement 
had a primary term of 15 years and continued thereafter until Florida 
Gas or Southern provided the other with written notice to terminate. 
The Applicants state that, by letter agreement signed by Florida Gas on 
August 21, 1996, and by Southern on September 30, 1996, both parties 
have agreed to terminate the August 4 Agreement and to waive the notice 
of termination.
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    \1\ The CP80-211 facilities include, among other things, 15.5 
miles of 10-inch diameter pipeline, and 13.5 miles of 8-inch 
diameter pipeline that extends from an offshore platform in Brazos 
Block 340 to an interconnection with Florida Gas' Kain Lateral, near 
Wadsworth, in Matagorda County, Texas, plus 4.3 miles of 4-inch 
pipeline that connects Brazos Block 367 to Brazos Block 340.
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    The Applicants state that the implementation of open-access 
transportation services under Subpart G of Part 284 of the Commission's 
regulations, and the restructuring of their respective services under 
Order No. 636, has rendered the August 4 Agreement (i.e., Rate Schedule 
X-18) unnecessary and obsolete.
    The Applicants also state that no Florida Gas or Southern customer 
will be disadvantaged by the proposed abandonment, and that the 
proposed abandonment will not result in the abandonment of any of 
Florida Gas' or Southern's facilities or services.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before June 10, 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 party 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, or 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 Florida Gas and Southern to appear or be 
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-13715 Filed 5-23-97; 8:45 am]
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