[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 152 (Thursday, August 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 42536]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20813]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-642-000]


Duke Energy Field Services, Inc.; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order

August 1, 1997.
    Take notice that on July 16, 1997, Duke Energy Field Services, Inc. 
(Field Services), 370, Seventeenth Street, Suite 900, Denver, CO 80202, 
filed in Docket No. CP97-642-000 a petition for a declaratory order 
under Rule 207 of the FERC's Rules of Practice and Procedure, wherein 
Field Services sought a declaratory order from the FERC finding that 
Field Services' proposed acquisition, ownership and operation of 
certain natural gas facilities currently owned by Texas Eastern 
Transmission Corporation (Texas Eastern), nor any of Field Services' 
facilities or services related thereto will subject Field Services or 
any portion of its facilities, services or rates to the jurisdiction of 
the FERC under the Natural Gas Act.
    It is stated that the facilities to be sold by Texas Eastern and 
purchased by Field Services consist of the Bethany-Longstreet Lateral 
(Line 11-B) located in DeSoto and Caddo Parishes, Louisiana, and the 
Salem Field Lateral (Line 21-F, 21-F-1, 21-F-3, 21-F-4, 21-F-5, 21F-5-A 
and 21-F-6), Provident City Line (Line 23), Bonorden Lateral (Line 21-
A) and North Morales Lateral (Line 21-E) located in Victoria, Lavaca 
and Jackson Counties, Texas, (collectively the ``Facilities'') as more 
fully set forth in the petition which is on file with the FERC and open 
to public inspection.
    Field Services submits that the Facilities, as currently owned and 
operated by Texas Eastern, are underutilized. Field Services 
anticipates tying-in additional production to the Facilities, thereby 
increasing the utilization of these assets and promoting competition 
for gathering services in these producing areas. This in turn will 
increase the volume of natural gas available for delivery into the 
interstate pipeline grid. Field Services proposes to either arrange for 
the purchase of production of natural gas from those wells currently 
attached to the Facilities, or in the alternative, to enter into gas 
gathering agreements that will have no adverse rate impact on the 
existing production of those producers and shippers currently utilizing 
these assets.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said Application should on or before August 22, 1997, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 385.211 or 18 CFR 385.214) 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 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 petition 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 abandonment 
is required by the public convenience and necessity. If a petition 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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-20813 Filed 8-6-97; 8:45 am]
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