[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 141 (Wednesday, July 23, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 39508]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-19281]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-631-000]


Koch Gateway Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

July 17, 1997.
    Take notice that on July 11, 1997, Koch Gateway Pipeline Company 
(Koch Gateway), Post Office Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-1478, filed 
in Docket No. CP97-631-000, an application for a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas 
Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
(Commission) Regulations, requesting authority to revise the cushion 
gas and working gas parameters of its Bistineau Storage Facility 
(Bistineau) located in Bienville and Bossier Parishes, Louisiana, and 
to increase Bistineau's protective acreage by 160 acres, all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Specifically, Koch Gateway seeks authorization to reduce the 
cushion gas in Bistineau by 5 Bcf and to increase the working gas 
volume by the same amount. No change in the total certificated capacity 
or maximum shut-in pressure is proposed. Koch Gateway also seeks to 
expand the protective acreage for Bistineau by 160 acres to the 
immediate west of the existing protective acreage. Finally, Koch 
Gateway seeks to operate the Koch Fee #1 test well as a injection/
withdrawal well at Bistineau. Koch Gateway states that the Koch Fee #1 
well will be an observation well from which withdrawals will be made 
only to the extent necessary to capture gas which is migrating from 
Bistineau.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before August 7, 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 procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Koch Gateway to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-19281 Filed 7-22-97; 8:45 am]
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