[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 83 (Friday, April 30, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 23290]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-10928]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-290-000]


Boundary Gas, Inc., Notice of Application

April 15, 1999.
    Take notice that on April 7, 1999, Boundary Gas, Inc. (Boundary), 
100 Cummings Center, Suite 457G, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915-6132, 
filed an application in Docket No. CP99-290-000 pursuant to Section 
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's 
Regulations, for authority to abandon gas service to Yankee Gas 
Services Company (Yankee) effective July 2, 19998, 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/rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222 for 
assistance).
    Boundary states that by letter dated June 26, 1997, Boundary and 
Yankee reached an agreement permitting Yankee to terminate its 
contractual relationship with Boundary and to enter into a separate 
agreement to purchase directly from TransCanada Pipelines Limited 
(TransCanada), Boundary's supplier, the volumes of gas Yankee has 
previously taken from Boundary, effective the date that Yankee was to 
specify in a Notice of Termination (Notice). Boundary also states that 
Yankee served the Notice on June 25, 1998 to Boundary stating that 
Yankee was terminating its contract effective July 1, 1998. Boundary 
further states that Yankee implemented its termination on July 2, 1998.
    Boundary says that on January 28, 1999, Boundary and TransCanada 
entered into a letter agreement. Boundary and all of the other 
Repurchasers \1\ entered into the Amendment to Phase 2 Gas Sales 
Agreement and the Eighth Amendment to Memorandum of Agreement (copies 
are included in Exhibit U of the application), all of which provide, 
inter alian, for the departure of Yankee effective July 2, 1998. 
Boundary also says that prior to Yankee's withdrawal, its stock 
ownership in Boundary was 10.23 percent, which entitled it to purchase 
9,463 Mcf per day.
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    \1\ Boundary is a close corporation wholly owned by its fourteen 
stockholders who are referred to as Repurchasers and all of them are 
local distribution companies located in New York, New Jersey and New 
England, plus they are Boundary's only customers.
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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before May 6, 1999, 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 385.211 or 385.214) and the regulations under the NGA 
(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 in any 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 Commission by 
Sections 7 and 15 of the NGA 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 procedures herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for Boundary to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-10928 Filed 4-29-99; 8:45 am]
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