[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8186-8187]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3935]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-153-004]


Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Petition To Amend

February 11, 1998.
    Take notice that on February 4, 1998, Southern Natural Gas Company 
(Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed in 
Docket No. CP96-153-004 a petition to amend the authorization issued on 
May 30, 1997 in Docket No. CP96-153-000, et al. pursuant to Section 
7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, as amended, all as more fully set forth in 
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Southern seeks authorization to modify the route of the 
northernmost segment of the North Alabama Pipeline to conform to the 
policy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for crossing the Wheeler 
National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge).
    Southern states that commencing at M.P. 91.35 of the route approved 
in the certificate order, the modified route would proceed in a 
generally northern direction parallel to Interstate Highway 65 (I-65). 
It is said that where I-65 crosses the Refuge, the pipeline right-of-
way would be immediately adjacent to the I-65 right-of-way, following 
this existing corridor through the Refuge. It is further said that a 
short distance thereafter, the new route would turn in a northeasterly 
direction to a point of termination at the new location for the 
Huntsville Meter Station.
    Any person desiring to be heard or any person desiring to make any 
protest with reference to said application should on or before March 4, 
1998, 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 385.214 or 385.211) 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 Federal Energy 
Regulatory 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 a grant of the certificate is 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 a formal 
hearing is required, further notice of such hearing will be duly given.

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    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Southern to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-3935 Filed 2-17-98; 8:45 am]
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