[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 91 (Tuesday, May 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 26172]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12467]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-331-001]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Amendment

May 6, 1998.
    Take notice that on April 27, 1998, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation (Transco), Post Office Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, 
filed in Docket No. CP97-331-001, an application as supplemented on May 
4, 1998, pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 
157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) 
regulations, to amend the certificate of public convenience and 
necessity issued in Docket No. CP97-331-000 on January 15, 1998, to 
authorize Transco to uprate two compressor units, all as more fully set 
forth in the petition on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Transco seeks to uprate compressor units 3 and 4 at its Station 100 
in Chilton County, Alabama, from 5,000 horsepower to 6,000 horsepower 
each. Transco states that the certificate authorized Transco, among 
other things, to re-wheel compressor units 3 and 4 at Station 100.
    Any person desiring to be heard or making any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before May 18, 1998, 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 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. The Commission's rules require that protestors provide 
copies of their protests to the party or person to whom the protests 
are directed. 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.
    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 issued by the Commission, filed by the 
applicant, or filed by all other intervenors. An intervenor can file 
for rehearing of any Commission order and can petition for court review 
of any such order. However, an intervenor must serve copies of comments 
or any other filing it makes with the Commission to every other 
intervenor in the proceeding, as well as filing an original and 14 
copies with the Commission.
    A person does not have to intervene, however, in order to have 
comments considered. A person, instead, may submit two copies of such 
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 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 these 
applications 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 Transco to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-12467 Filed 5-11-98; 8:45 am]
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