[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 109 (Friday, June 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31090-31091]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14826]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-531-000]


Mississippi Valley Gas Company; Notice of Application

June 2, 1997.
    Take notice that on March 19, 1997, Mississippi Valley Gas Company 
(MVGC), Post Office Box 3348, Jackson, Mississippi 39207-3348, filed in 
Docket No. CP97-531-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon MVGC's 
certificate of public convenience and necessity, which was authorized 
in Docket No. CP82-41-000,

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all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    MVGC states that it is seeking to abandon its certificate and 
related service because it is not now conducting any such Natural Gas 
Policy Act of 1978 Section 311 transportation service, and has not 
conducted any such services during the past six years. MVGC further 
states that it has no contracts for, and no plans to provide, any such 
services and therefore no longer has any use for the certificate.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to said application should on or before June 23, 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 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 provided for, unless 
otherwise advised, it will be unnecessary for MVGC to appear or be 
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-14826 Filed 6-5-97; 8:45 am]
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