[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 25 (Friday, February 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6164-6165]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-2927]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-199-000]


Midcoast Interstate Transmission Inc.; Notice of Application for 
Abandonment

February 2, 1998.
    Take notice that on January 23, 1998, Midcoast Interstate 
Transmission, Inc. (Midcoast), 3230 Second Street, Muscle Shoals, 
Alabama 35662, filed in Docket No. CP98-199-000, an application 
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the 
Commission's Regulations for an order permitting and approving the 
abandonment by sale to the City Of Florence, Florence, Alabama, of 
certain certificated meter, measuring and regulating station facilities 
and appurtenances, as more fully set forth in the application, which is 
on file with the Commission and open for public inspection.
    Specifically, Midcoast wants to abandon by sale to the City of 
Florence, the facilities known as Midcoast's Florence #2 Meter Station 
and appurtenances which were installed in 1983 pursuant to a Commission 
order in Docket No. CP81-155. Midcoast indicates that the only customer 
utilizing or being served through these facilities is the City of 
Florence, and that the facilities are utilized solely as a secondary 
delivery point for gas received from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 
(Tennessee) and delivered to the City of Florence pursuant to 
Midcoast's Firm Transportation Agreement No. 6006. Midcoast says if the 
facilities are not abandoned and sold to the City of Florence, the 
facilities could become inactive. Midcoast states that all current 
volumetric requirements for service to the City of Florence pursuant to 
the FT agreement will be provided through other existing facilities.
    Midcoast states that the proposed abandonment will permit Midcoast 
to avoid underutilization of the facilities, while the City of Florence 
will be able to receive gas directly from Tennessee without the 
needless construction of duplicative facilities. Midcoast and the City 
of Florence has agreed to the sale and purchase of the facilities for 
the amount of $50,000.00.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before February 23, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20426, a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance

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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 Midcoast to appear or to be represented at 
the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-2927 Filed 2-5-98; 8:45 am]
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