[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 79 (Friday, April 24, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20391-20392]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10899]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-349-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application

April 20, 1998.
    Take notice that on April 14, 1998, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), 2800 Post Oak Blvd., Houston, Texas 77056, filed 
in Docket No. CP98-340-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act, for permission and approval to abandon certain 
firm sales service provided to Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corporation 
(Owens-Corning) and the City of Lexington (Lexington), all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Transco states that it entered into firm sales agreements with 
Owens-Corning and Lexington on August 1, 1991, under which Transco 
sells gas to Owens-Corning and Lexington under Transco's Rate Schedule 
FS. It is stated that one agreement is with Owens-Corning with a Daily 
Sales Entitlement of 3,000 Mcf per day, and that two of the agreements 
are with Lexington each with a daily Sales Entitlement of 1,000 Mcf per 
day.
    In accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article IV of its FS Agreement, 
Transco states that it delivers gas to Owens-Corning and Lexington at 
various upstream points of delivery. Transco indicates that it acts as 
agent for Owens-Corning and Lexington, for the purpose of arranging for 
the transportation of gas purchased from the points of delivery to the 
points of redelivery identified in both Owens-Corning and Lexington's 
FS Agreement with Transco.
    Transco seeks authorization to abandon the FS Agreements with Daily 
Sales Entitlement of 3,000 Mcf daily to Owens-Corning, and a total of 
2,000 Mcf daily to Lexington, effective March 31, 1999, pursuant to the 
election of Owens-Corning and Lexington to terminate their respective 
FS Agreements with Transco.
    Transco states that Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreements 
that Transco has with Owens-Corning and Lexington provides that at the 
end of the Primary Term, and on each anniversary date thereafter, the 
term of the service agreement will be extended by successive one 
Contract Year periods, unless either party notifies the other in 
writing not less than two Contract Years prior to the end of the 
Primary Term or two Contract Years prior to any anniversary date 
thereafter, of its election not to extend the term of the service 
agreement. Transco further states that Paragraph 1 of Article II of the 
FS Agreements define ``Contract Year'' as the period from the effective 
date (specified as November 1, 1990) through March 31, 1991, and each 
twelve month period thereafter for the term of the agreement.
    It is stated that the Primary Term of the Owens-Corning Agreement 
ended on March 31, 1996, and that the Primary Term of the two Lexington 
FS Agreements ended March 31, 1994 and March 31, 1996, respectively. 
Transco avers that the Primary Terms of the FS Agreements were extended 
in accordance with Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreements. 
Owens-Corning, by letter dated March 31, 1997, and Lexington by letter 
also dated March 31, 1997, provided Transco with two-years notice to 
terminate their respective FS Agreements as of March 31, 1999.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before May 11, 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

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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.
    Under the procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-10899 Filed 4-23-98; 8:45 am]
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