[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 31588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15039]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP94-817-000]


Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Request to 
Vacate

June 4, 1997.
    Take notice that on May 7, 1997, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 
America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148-5072, 
filed in Docket No. CP94-817-000 a letter stating that the facilities 
authorized in its May 26, 1995 order,\1\ have not been constructed, and 
are no longer warranted. The Commission will treat Natural's letter as 
a request to vacate, all as more fully set forth in the request filed 
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
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    \1\ See 71 FERC para. 62,148 (1995).
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    By order issued May 16, 1995, in the referenced docket, Natural 
received Commission authorization to construct and operate 
approximately 2.86 miles of 36-inch loop line on Natural's Gulf Coast 
Mainline in Effingham County, Illinois. The loop line would have 
extended northward (downstream) from the outlet of Natural's Loudon 
Storage Field, and would have formed part of the 36-inch No. 3 Line of 
Natural's Gulf Coast Mainline.
    The May 26, 1995 order required that construction be completed and 
the facilities be placed in operation within one year. By petition 
filed on April 18, 1996, Natural requested that such one-year period be 
extended by an additional year. That extension was granted, under the 
delegated authority, on April 30, 1996.
    By the filing of the May 7, 1997 letter, Natural states that such 
construction is not warranted, in light of generally reduced Gulf Coast 
Mainline utilization levels.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said request should on or before June 25, 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15039 Filed 6-9-97; 8:45 am]
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