[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 113 (Friday, June 12, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 32198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15665]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-579-000]


Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Application

June 8, 1998.
    Take notice that on June 1, 1998, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 
America (Natural), 747 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148, filed 
in Docket No. CP98-579-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon, by sale to 
Timberland Gathering & Processing Company, Inc. (Timberland), a Texas 
corporation, certain certificated facilities located near the town of 
Hooker, Texas County, Oklahoma. Natural proposes to abandon 
approximately 3.64 miles of Natural's 26-inch Hooker Lateral, a meter 
station consisting of four 10-inch meters, a 12-inch check meter, and 
approximately 4,748 feet of 20-inch line, all as more fully set forth 
in the application on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Natural states that the 3.64-mile segment of pipe is located at the 
western end of the Hooker Lateral. It is further stated that all of the 
other facilities proposed to be abandoned are, in turn, near the 
western end of the 3.64-mile segment. Natural indicates that Timberland 
proposes to cut the 3.64-mile segment away from the Hooker Lateral and 
then to interconnect it with another existing line owned by Timberland. 
It is averred that the 3.64-mile segment, in conjunction with the other 
line, will then be used to move unprocessed gas from the Hooker 
Gathering System to Timberland's Tyrone Processing Plant which is about 
13.25 miles north of the Hooker Lateral. Natural states that based on 
the facts presented in this proceeding, that it requests that the 
Commission find that all of the facilities will be non-jurisdictional, 
following their abandonment and transfer to Timberland.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before June 29, 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. 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 Natural to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15665 Filed 6-11-98; 8:45 am]
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