[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 176 (Thursday, September 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47806-47807]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-24071]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-721-000]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request 
Under Blanket Authorization

September 5, 1997.
    Take notice that on September 2, 1997, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP97-721-000 a 
request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 18 CFR 
157.216) for authorization to abandon four farm taps, located in 
Burleigh and Morton Counties, North Dakota, under Williston Basin's 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-487-000, pursuant to Section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the request that 
is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Williston Basin proposed to abandon four farm taps:

--Farm tap at Station 9399+37 located on the Cabin Creek-Bismarch 
transmission line in Burleigh County, North Dakota;
--Farm tap at Station 5439+92 located on the Minot-Bismarch 
transmission line in Burleigh County, North Dakota;
--Farm tap at Station 651+58 located on the Cabin Creek-Bismarck 
transmission line in Morton County, North Dakota;
--Farm tap at Station 9061+27 located on the Cabin Creek-Bismarck 
transmission line in Morton County, North Dakota.

    Williston Basin states that Montana-Dakota Utilities Company, a 
local distribution company, now serves the customers previously served 
by these farm taps through its distribution system and consents to the 
proposed abandonment.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR

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385.214) a motion to intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant 
to Section 157.205 of the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 
157.205) a protest to the request. If no protest is filed within the 
time allowed therefor, the proposed activity shall be deemed to be 
authorized effective the day after the time allowed for filing a 
protest. If a protest is filed and not withdrawn within 30 days after 
the time allowed for filing a protest, the instant request shall be 
treated as an application for authorization pursuant to Section 7 of 
the Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-24071 Filed 9-10-97; 8:45 am]
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