[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 54 (Friday, March 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13645-13646]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7253]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-203-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

March 16, 1998.
    Take notice that on January 27, 1998, as supplemented on March 13, 
1998, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia), 12801 Fair 
Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia 22030, filed a request with the 
Commission in Docket No. CP98-203-000 pursuant to Section 7(c) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA) for authorization to construct and operate six 
delivery points in West Virginia to serve existing customers, all as 
more fully set forth in the application which is open to the public for 
inspection.
    Columbia proposed to construct and operate six delivery points in 
Cabell, Lewis, Roane, and Wayne counties to serve one commercial and 
five residential customers of Mountaineer Gas Company (MGC). Columbia 
states that it would deliver a total of up to 9 dekatherms equivalent 
of natural gas per day and up to 900 dekatherms equivalent of natural 
gas annually at the six proposed delivery points for the account of MGC 
under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP86-240-000. 
Columbia also states that MGC has not requested an increase in its peak 
day entitlements in conjunction with this request for the herein 
proposed six new delivery points. Columbia further states that it would 
treat the estimated $900 total construction cost for this proposal as 
an operational and maintenance expense.
    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, 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 
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 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-7253 Filed 3-19-98; 8:45 am]
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