[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 170 (Wednesday, September 2, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46782-46783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-23640]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-737-000]


Midcoast Interstate Transmission, Inc.; Notice of Request Under 
Blanket Authorization

August 28, 1998.
    Take notice that on August 21, 1998, Midcoast Interstate 
Transmission, Inc. (Midcoast) 3230 Second Street, Muscle Shoals, 
Alabama 35661, filed in Docket No. CP98-737-000 a request pursuant to 
Sections 157.205 and 157.211 of the Commission's Regulations under the 
Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.211) for authorization to 
install and operate two new delivery points in Limestone County, 
Alabama, under Midcoast's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP85-359-000 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more 
fully set forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and 
open to public inspection.
    Midcoast proposes to install and operate the facilities to 
accommodate natural gas deliveries to the City of Athens Utilities 
Department (Athens). Transportation service for Athens will be provided 
pursuant to Rate Schedule FT of Midcoast's FERC Gas Tariff, Second 
Revised Volume No. 1. The two new delivery points will be known as 
Athens #2 and Athens #3. Midcoast will install, own and operate all 
facilities.
    Midcoast states that this addition is not prohibited by its 
existing tariff, that there is sufficient capacity to accomplish 
deliveries without detriment or disadvantage to other customers, that 
its peak day and annual deliveries will not be affected and that the 
total volumes delivered will not exceed the total volumes authorized 
prior to this request.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of

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the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 214 of the 
Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to intervene or 
notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of the 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the 
request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, the 
proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day 
after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and 
not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-23640 Filed 9-1-98; 8:45 am]
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