[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 161 (Thursday, August 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44612-44613]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22373]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-720-000]


Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Application

August 14, 1998.
    Take notice that on August 11, 1998, Florida Gas Transmission 
Company (Applicant), 1400 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, filed in 
Docket No. CP98-720-000 an abbreviated application pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, as amended, and Section 157.18 of the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) regulations 
thereunder, for permission and approval to authorize Applicant to 
abandon by sale to Denbury Resources, Inc., as non-jurisdictional 
facilities, the Lake Facilities consisting of 1.5 miles of ten-inch 
Lake Chicot Lateral from the Denbury Production Platform to the 
connection of the Lake Mongoulois Lateral, 4.7 miles of the eight-inch 
Lake Mongoulois Lateral, 7.3 miles of the eight-inch Lake Fausse Point 
Lateral, and miscellaneous piping and valves connecting the field 
compressor site at Milepost 15.2, all located in St. Martin and Iberia 
Parishes, Louisiana and all as more fully set forth in the application 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.

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    Applicant states that upon abandonment and sale to Denbury, the 
capital and operating costs of the facilities will be removed from 
Applicant's rate base and cost-of-service, and there will be no 
stranded facility costs associated with the proposed abandonment. 
Applicant further states that it will analyze the economic advantages 
and disadvantages of repairing the remaining portions of the Lake 
Chicot Lateral at Bayou Sorrel and take the appropriate action at a 
later date.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before August 24, 1998, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, 
Washington, DC 20426, a petition 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 the proceeding or to 
participate as a party in any hearing therein must file a petition 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 on this application 
if no petition to intervene is filed within the time required herein, 
and if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that the 
abandonment is required by the public convenience and necessity. If a 
petition for leave to intervene is timely filed, or if the Commission 
on its 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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-22373 Filed 8-19-98; 8:45 am]
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