[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 232 (Thursday, December 3, 1998)]
[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: 98-32162]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-80-000]


Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Application

November 27, 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. CP99-80-000 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 6-inch platform 
measuring facility located in Vermilion Block 214A, offshore Louisiana 
(VR 214A), all as more fully set forth in the application on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Natural states the facilities were originally constructed to allow 
Natural to measure system supply gas that it had purchased in VR 214A, 
which gas Stingray 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. Natural 
further states that said facilities no longer hold sufficient value to 
natural to warrant the expenditures required to maintain them and 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 18, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
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 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 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 Natural to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-32162 Filed 12-2-98; 8:45 am]
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