[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10372-10373]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-5443]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-239-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Certificate 
Application

February 26, 1998.
    Take notice that on February 17, 1998, Texas Eastern Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 
77056-5310, filed an application pursuant to sections 7(b) and 7(c) of 
the Natural Gas Act, for authorization to abandon (by removal) a 
portion of Texas Eastern's Line No. 14, in Orange County, Texas, and 
for a certificate authorizing Texas Eastern to replace that pipeline 
segment, all as more fully set forth in the application, which is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Texas Eastern refers to its pipeline replacement project as its 
Vidor Project. The Vidor Project calls for the replacement of 
approximately 1,365 feet of Texas Eastern's 30-inch, Line No. 14, in 
Orange County, Texas, and the abandonment (by removal) of the existing 
30-inch pipeline segment to be replaced, as a safety upgrade of that 
pipeline segment (from Class 2 to Class 3 under the U.S. Department of 
Transportation's regulations 49 CFR Part 192). The 1,365-foot pipeline 
segment being replaced lies between MP 22.91 and MP 23.16 on Line No. 
14. The estimated total capital cost of the replacement is $924,000.
    Texas Eastern states that the replacement pipeline segment will not 
change the system's maximum daily design capacity, and that the 30-
inch, replacement pipeline segment will have a design delivery capacity 
equivalent to the facilities being replaced. Texas Eastern also states 
that the Vidor Project will require the disturbance of 3.53 acres of 
land (of which 1.85 acres will be temporary work space), that the 
project will require a 25-foot offset from the existing pipeline, and 
that (as a result) Texas Eastern plans to acquire a 0.67-acre strip of 
land as a new permanent right-of-way and relinquish the corresponding 
0.67-acre strip of its existing right-of-way.
    Any person desiring to participate in the hearing process or to 
make any protest with reference to said application should, on or 
before March 19, 1998, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C., 20426, a motion 
to intervene or 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 the proceeding, or to participate as a party in any 
hearing therein, must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules.
    A person obtaining intervenor status will be placed on the service 
list maintained by the Secretary of the Commission and will receive 
copies of all documents filed by the applicant and by every intervenor. 
An intervenor can file for rehearing of any Commission order and can 
petition for court review of any such order. However, an intervenor 
must submit copies of comments, or any other filing it makes with the 
Commission, to every other intervenor in the proceeding, in addition to 
the 14 copies it must file with the Commission.
    A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have 
comments considered. A person may submit two copies of comments to the 
Secretary of the Commission. Commenters will be placed on the 
Commission's environmental mailing list, will receive copies of 
environmental documents and will be able to participate in meetings 
associated with the Commission's environmental review process. 
Commenters will not be required to serve copies of filed documents on 
all other parties. However, commenters will not receive copies of all 
documents filed by other parties, or issued by the Commission, and will 
not have the right to seek rehearing or appeal the Commission's final 
order to a federal court. The Commission will consider all comments and 
concerns equally, whether filed by commenters or those requesting 
intervenor status.
    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 of 
this application, if no motion to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that permission and approval for the proposed abandonment and a 
grant of the requested certificate are required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If a motion for leave to

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intervene is timely filed, or the Commission on its own motion believes 
that a 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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-5443 Filed 3-2-98; 8:45 am]
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