[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 136 (Thursday, July 16, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 38396]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-18918]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-650-000]


Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Application

July 10, 1998.
    Take notice that on July 2, 1998, Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans) 
located at 3500 Park Lane, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15275 filed in the 
referenced docket an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act (NGA), as amended and Part 157 of the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission's Regulations thereunder (18 CFR Sections 157.7 
and 157.18), requesting issuance of a Commission order authorizing 
Equitrans to effect the sale and transfer to Tri-County Oil & Gas 
Company (Tri-County) certain of its natural gas gathering facilities 
comprising the North Littleton gathering system, located in Wetzel and 
Monongalia Counties, West Virginia, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    Equitrans seeks a determination that once conveyed, these 
facilities will be gathering facilities exempt from the Commission's 
jurisdiction.
    Specifically, Equitrans proposes to abandon and transfer to Tri-
County, the North Littleton gathering system consisting of 216 segments 
of pipe totaling 214,028 feet and ranging from 2 to 16 inches in 
diameter with each segment less than 2 miles in length and 13 metering 
stations. Equitrans proposes to sell these facilities to Tri-County for 
the negotiated amount of $238,744.
    Currently, Equitable Gas Company (Equitable), the predominant 
shipper on the North Littleton system and an affiliate of Equitrans, 
serves the communities of Burton, Eastview and Hundred, West Virginia 
as well as 92 rural distribution customers from taps on the system. In 
addition, Equitable and other third parties ship local production on 
the system for delivery to Carnegie Interstate Pipeline Company or the 
transmission system of Equitrans. Equitrans indicates that Tri-County 
has agreed that none of these arrangements with Equitrans, Equitable 
and other third party shippers will be discontinued, and that for a 
period of two years, Tri-County has agreed that the gathering charge to 
shippers will not exceed the maximun rate for gathering which Equitrans 
is authorized to charge under its FERC Gas Tariff.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before July 31, 1998, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 385.211 and 385.214) 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 proceedings. 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 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 with the time required herein or if the 
Commission on its own review of the matter, finds that a grant of the 
certificate for the proposal is required by the public convenience and 
necessity. If the Commission 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 Equitrans to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-18918 Filed 7-15-98; 8:45 am]
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