[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 240 (Tuesday, December 15, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 69064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-33145]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. SA99-7-000]


Charlotte Hill Gas Company; Notice of Petition for Adjustment

December 9, 1998.
    Take notice that on November 20, 1998, Charlotte Hill Gas Company 
(CHG), filed a petition for adjustment, pursuant to section 502(c) of 
the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA), for relief from paying 
approximately $48,418.29 in Kansas ad valorem tax refunds to Panhandle 
Eastern Pipe Line Company, under the Commission's September 10, 1997 
order in Docket No. RP97-369-000, et al. [80 FERC para. 61,264 (1997); 
rehearing denied, 82 FERC para. 61,058 (1998)]. The September 10 order 
directed First Sellers under the NGPA to make Kansas ad valorem tax 
refunds, with interest, for the period form 1983 to 1988. CHG's 
petition is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    CHG's attorney states that CHG was a corporation, that CHG no 
longer exists, and that CHG's assets were distributed to the 
corporation's former shareholders. CHG's attorney further states that 
these former shareholders are elderly, in ill health, and have no 
assets to pay the sums required under the Commission's September 10 
order. CHG's attorney also asserts that the payment of the refunds 
would leave the former shareholders destitute. CHG's attorney contends 
that refund relief should be granted to CHG (i.e., CHG's former 
shareholders) on the grounds: (1) that the former shareholder would 
suffer a special hardship if required to make the subject refunds; and 
(2) that it would be inequitable to require the former shareholders to 
make the subject refunds.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before 15 days after the date 
of publication in the Federal Register of this notice, file with the 
Federal Energy regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, 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, 385.211, 385.1105, and 385.1106). 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-33145 Filed 12-14-98; 8:45 am]
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