[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 47 (Thursday, March 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 12163]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-5996]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-231-00]


Northern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

March 5, 1999.
    Take notice that on March 1, 1999, Northern Natural Gas Company 
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68103-0330, filed 
in Docket No. CP99-231-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 
157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 
CFR 157.205 and 157.216) for authorization to abandon twenty-one small 
volume measuring stations located in Iowa and Minnesota. Northern makes 
such request under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-
401-00, pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully 
set forth in the request on file with the Commission. The filing may be 
viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-
208-2222 for assistance).
    Northern requests authority to abandon and remove twenty-one small 
volume measuring stations based on requests from twenty-one end-users, 
for the removal of the measuring stations from their property. It is 
stated that the facilities to be abandoned are jurisdictional 
facilities under the NGA and were constructed pursuant to superseded 
2.55 regulations, budget, or blanket authority, depending on the year 
the facilities were originally placed in-service.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
the proposed activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the 
day after the time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed 
and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 
protest, the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-5996 Filed 3-10-99; 8:45 am]
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