[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 18, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 13241]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6928]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-263-000]


Louisiana-Nevada Transit Company; Notice of Application

March 12, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 4, 1998, Louisiana-Nevada Transit Company 
(LNT), 16415 Addison Road, Suite 610, Dallas, Texas 75248-2661 77002, 
filed an application with the Commission in Docket No. CP98-263-000 
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for permission 
and approval to abandon its pipeline facilities in Arkansas and 
Louisiana by sale to Arkla, a division of NorAm Energy Corp. (Arkla), 
all as more fully set forth in the application on file with the 
Commission and open to public inspection.
    LNT proposes to abandon approximately 78 miles of 8-inch diameter 
pipe between Cotton Valley, Webster Parish, Louisiana, and Okay, 
Hampstead County, Arkansas, and approximately 17 miles of 6-inch 
diameter pipe that extends from Haynesville, Claiborne Parish, 
Louisiana, to an interconnection with the 8-inch diameter pipe in 
Webster Parish. LBT states that Arkla would buy the pipeline facilities 
for $226,500. LNT also states that Arkla is LNT's sole jurisdictional 
customer and that LNT also makes certain nonjurisdictional direct sales 
in Arkansas and Louisiana.
    LNT states that it has filed for bankruptcy protection under 
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. LNT also states that 
Arkla would concurrently file a petition for a declaratory order that 
the facilities it would acquire from LNT would not be subject to the 
Commission's jurisdiction. LNT further states that Arkla would blind-
plate the pipeline facilities at the Arkansas-Louisiana state line and 
operate the separated segments as reconfigured parts of Arkla's local 
distribution systems in Arkansas and Louisiana.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before March 23, 1998, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
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 
NGA (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 NGA 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.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for LNT to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6928 Filed 3-17-98; 8:45 am]
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