[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 98 (Thursday, May 21, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27940-27941]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-13493]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-522-000]


Texas Gas Transmission Corporation Columbia Gulf Transmission 
Company; Notice of Application

May 15, 1998.
    Take notice that on May 5, 1998, Texas Gas Transmission Corporation 
(Texas Gas) P.O. Box 20008, Owensboro, Kentucky 42304, and Columbia 
Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia Gulf) P.O. Box 683, Houston, Texas 
77001-0683, filed a joint application for Texas Gas to abandon by 
transfer, to Columbia Gulf, Texas Gas' interest in certain jointly-
owned supply lateral facilities, and appurtenances, in the Eugene 
Island and Vermilion Areas, Offshore Louisiana, and for Columbia Gulf 
to acquire and own Texas Gas' interest in such facilities, all as more 
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open 
to public inspection.
    Texas Gas states that the facilities were originally constructed 
and operated jointly with Columbia Gulf to support its merchant 
function; however, due to the termination of the related third-party 
transportation agreements, Texas Gas no longer has a firm 
transportation commitment involving the facilities. As such, Texas Gas 
wishes to abandon these facilities to streamline its transmission 
operations. Columbia Gulf states that any shippers desiring access to 
the supplies attached to these laterals will be able to obtain 
transportation service from Columbia Gulf, thus none of the 
interruptible shippers currently utilizing the Texas Gas' capacity in 
the subject facilities will be subject to a diminution or termination 
of service.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said

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application should on or before June 5, 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 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 Texas Gas and Columbia Gulf to appear or be 
represented at the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-13493 Filed 5-20-98; 8:45 am]
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