[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 227 (Tuesday, November 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 62764]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30884]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-83-000]


Koch Gateway Pipeline Company; Texas Gas Transmission 
Corporation; Notice of Joint Application for Abandonment

November 19, 1997.
    Take notice that on November 12, 1997, Koch Gateway Pipeline 
Company (Koch), P.O. Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251 and Texas Gas 
Transmission Corporation (Texas Gas), P.O. Box 20008, Owensboro, 
Kentucky 42304 filed a joint application pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations 
requesting permission and approval to abandon a natural gas exchange 
service between Koch and Texas Gas which was authorized in Docket No. 
CP61-79,\1\ as amended, and provided under Koch's Rate Schedule X-12 in 
its FERC Gas Tariff, Original Volume No. 2 and Texas Gas's FERC Rate 
Schedule X-27, Original Volume No. 2. The application is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
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    \1\ See 24 FPC 1099 (1960).
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    Koch and Texas Gas state that this exchange service is no longer 
required and request that the Commission grant abandonment of this 
obsolete service commitment. By letter dated April 18, 1996, Texas Gas 
notified Koch of its desire to terminate the August 30, 1960 exchange 
agreement, effective July 18, 1996.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 10, 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 385.211 and 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 in any proceeding herein 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 motion 
to intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the 
Commission on its own review of the matter finds that permission and 
approval for the proposed abandonment are 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 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 and Texas Gas to appear or to be 
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-30884 Filed 11-24-97; 8:45 am]
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