[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 193 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52095]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26367]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-776-000]


Koch Gateway Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

September 30, 1997.
    Take notice that on September 26, 1997, Koch Gateway Pipeline 
Company (Koch Gateway), P.O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-1478, filed 
in Docket No. CP97-776-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205, 157.216) for authorization to abandon eleven delivery taps 
in Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties, Mississippi, under Koch 
Gateway's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-430, pursuant 
to Section 7 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.
    Koch Gateway requests authorization to abandon eleven (11) farm 
taps on its Index 276 transmission pipeline in Hancock, Harrison and 
Jackson Counties Mississippi. Koch Gateway states that it is taking 
steps to implement the order issued on June 21, 1994 in FERC Docket No. 
CP94-76-000 to abandon by sale to Koch Pipeline, Inc., a subsidiary of 
Koch Industries, Inc., its Index 276 transmission pipeline. In its 
application for abandonment Koch Gateway indicated that is would make 
prior notice filings to abandon existing delivery taps on the Index 276 
and that this instant filing is one of those filings.
    Koch Gateway proposes to plug each tap and remove all valves and 
above-ground appurtenances at the various locations. Koch Gateway 
states that these farm taps were originally certificated in FPC Docket 
No. G-232, and that the taps are inactive and no services will be 
affected by the proposed abandonment. Koch Gateway states that Entex, 
Inc. (Entex), the local distribution company through which these farm 
tap services were previously provided, has removed its metering 
facilities at each farm tap location, and that Entex has agreed 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 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-26367 Filed 10-3-97; 8:45 am]
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