[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 46 (Wednesday, March 10, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11854-11855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5892]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-230-000]


Southwest Gas Storage Company; Notice of Application

March 4, 1999.
    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Southwest Gas Storage Company 
(Southwest), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642, filed in Docket 
No. CP99-230-000 an application pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural 
Gas Act (NGA) requesting a blanket certificate of public convenience 
and necessity and permission and approval to abandon, authorizing 
Southwest to engage in any of the activities specified in Subpart F of 
Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations, as may be amended from time 
to time, all as more fully set forth in the application which is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection. This filing may 
be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/htm (call 202-
208-2222 for assistance).
    It is stated that Southwest is a ``natural gas company'' withing 
the meaning of the NGA and as determined by the Commission in Docket 
No. CP79-490. Southwest asserts that it does not have any outstanding 
budget-type certificates or any ongoing storage field tests commenced 
under a budget-type certificate. Southwest states that it does have 
currently effective storage rate schedules, providing open access firm 
storage service under its Rate Schedule FSS and interruptible storage 
service under its Rate Scheduled ISS. Southwest further states that it 
has a storage blanket certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP90-1014-000.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before March 15, 1999, file 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 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 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 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 on this application 
if no petition 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 
petition 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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be

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unnecessary for Southwest to appear or be represented at the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-5892 Filed 3-9-99; 8:45 am]
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