[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 61 (Tuesday, March 31, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 15395]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-8328]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. SA98-69-000]


Pickrell Drilling Company, Inc.; Notice of Petition for 
Adjustment

March 25, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 10, 1998, Pickrell Drilling Company, Inc. 
(Pickrell) filed in Docket No. SA98-69-000 a petition for adjustment 
pursuant to Section 502(c) of the Natural Gas Policy Act 15 U.S.C. 
3412(c) and Rules 1101-1117 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and 
procedure (18 CFR 385.1101-385.1117) requesting that it be released of 
any refund liability of the Kansas ad valorem tax pertaining to the 
Statement of Refunds Due, all are more fully set forth in the petition 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Pickrell states that it was simply the operator of the wells for 
which two tax payments were made and that Pickrell owned no working 
interest in the leases or wells. Pickrell states that the working 
interest owners that received tax reimbursements have refunded their 
proportionate shares of the amount set out in the Statement of Refunds 
Due, and are requesting that they be relieved of any refund liability 
for the interest. Pickrell also states that some of the working 
interest owners are deceased and their estates have been closed, one is 
elderly and in poor financial condition, and two owners are not 
locatable. Pickrell believes that it is a hardship on the other owners 
and inequitable to require them to refund the interest where there is 
no chance of recouping anything further from production, and that any 
amounts attributable to these interest owners should be waived.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should, on or before 15 days after the date 
of publication in the Federal Register of this notice, file with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 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, 385.211, 385.1105, and 385.1106). 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-8328 Filed 3-30-98; 8:45 am]
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