[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 151 (Thursday, August 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20981]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-684-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application for
Abandonment
July 31, 1998.
Take notice that on July 22, 1998, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia
22030-0146, filed in Docket No. CP98-684-000 an application pursuant to
Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to
abandon by sale to Blazer Energy Corporation (Blazer), a wholly owned
subsidiary of Statoil Energy, Inc., certain certificated natural gas
facilities, to abandon the service provided through the facilities to
be sold, and to abandon an exchange service with CNG Transmission
Corporation (CNG) and permission to amend the related exchange
agreement to remove that point, all as more fully set forth in the
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Columbia states that Columbia and Blazer entered into a Purchase
and Sale Agreement dated July 15, 1997, which provides that Columbia
will sell to Blazer all of its interest in certain pipeline facilities
located in Fayette, Raleigh, and Kanawha Counties, West Virginia.
Columbia proposed (i) to abandon, by sale to Blazer, Columbia's
interest in certificated facilities designed as Lines KA-7, KA-12, KA-
13, and the Carbon Compressor Station, located in West Virginia; (ii)
to abandon the services provided through the facilities to be sold; and
(iii) to abandon a point of exchange with CNG Transmission Corporation
and permission to amend Columbia's Exchange Agreement X-35 to remove
that point.
Concurrently with this application, Blazer filed a petition for a
declaratory order in Docket No. CP98-683-000 requesting that the
Commission declare that certain facilities Blazer proposes to acquire
from Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia) are gathering
facilities exempt from Commission jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of
the Natural Gas Act (NGA).
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before August 21, 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy
Regulation 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-20981 Filed 8-5-98; 8:45 am]
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