[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 230 (Tuesday, December 1, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 66151]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31877]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-81-000]


Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Application

November 24, 1998.
    Take notice that on November 17, 1998, Natural Gas Pipeline Company 
of America (Natural), 747 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois, 60148, 
filed in Docket No. CP99-81-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) 
of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon, by sale 
to Stingray Pipeline Company (Stingray) a dual 4-inch platform 
measuring facility located in East Cameron Block 286, offshore 
Louisiana (EC 286), all as more fully set forth in the application on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Natural states that the facilities were originally constructed to 
allow Natural to measure system supply gas that it had purchased in EC 
286, which gas Stingray had received for Natural's account and 
transported and redelivered to Natural onshore at Holly Beach in 
Cameron Parish, Louisiana. Natural states that its gas purchase and 
transportation agreements related to these facilities have been 
terminated and that currently the facilities are used to measure gas 
that stingray receives and transports onshore for the accounts of 
Stingray's shippers. Moreover, Natural states that said facilities no 
longer hold sufficient value to Natural to warrant the expenditures 
required to maintain them as a result, Natural intends to sell said 
facilities to Stingray.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before December 15, 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 385.214 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 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 on this application 
if no motion 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 
motion 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 provide 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. 98-31877 Filed 11-30-98; 8:45 am]
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