[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 6, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 864]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-257]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-132-000]


Midwestern Gas Transmission Company, Texas Gas Transmission 
Corporation, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Application

December 31, 1998.
    Take notice that on December 22, 1998, Midwestern Gas Transmission 
Company (Midwestern), 1001 Louisiana, P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 
77252-2511, Texas Gas Transmission Corporation (Texas Gas), P.O. Box 
20008, Owensboro, Kentucky 42304, and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 
(Tennessee), 1001 Louisiana, P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252-2511 
(jointly referred to as Applicants) filed a joint application pursuant 
to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and the Commission's 
Regulations thereunder, requesting authority to abandon a natural gas 
exchange service between Midwestern and Texas Gas which was authorized 
in Docket No. G-20520,1 all as more fully described in the 
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
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    \1\ See, 23 FPC 765 (1960).
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    Specifically, Applicants propose to abandon the exchange service 
between Midwestern and Texas Gas provided under Midwestern's Rate 
Schedule EX-3 and Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-25. Tennessee also 
requests authorization to abandon its certificate in connection with 
the exchange service. In that regard, Tennessee was issued a 
certificate in Docket No. G-20520 because the proposed exchange of gas 
between Midwestern and Texas Gas contemplated the possible use of 
Tennessee's pipeline facilities in order to effectuate deliveries. The 
Applicants state that this exchange service is no longer required by 
Midwestern and Texas Gas, and has been terminated by mutual agreement.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before January 21, 1999, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 
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 Protesters 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 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 or its designee on 
this application if no petition to intervene is filed within the time 
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter 
finds that a grant of the certificate is required by the public 
convenience and necessity. If a petition for leave 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 Applicants to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-257 Filed 1-5-99; 8:45 am]
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