[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 7 (Tuesday, January 11, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 1621]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-540]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP00-60-000]


Associated Natural Gas Company, a division of Arkansas Western 
Gas Company; Notice of Application

January 5, 2000.
    Take notice that on December 22, 1999, Associated Natural Gas 
Company, a division of Arkansas Western Gas Company (ANG), 1083 Sain 
Street, P.O. Box 1408, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72703, filed in Docket 
No. CP00-60-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(f) of the Natural 
Gas Act, for approval of a revised service area determination as a 
result of a sale of facilities in the state of Missouri to Atmos Energy 
Corporation (Atmos) and a request for continuation of its waiver of the 
Commission's accounting and reporting requirements ordinarily 
applicable to natural gas companies, 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.us/
online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222).
    ANG states that it presently has a section 7(f) service area 
determination which allows it to move gas across the Arkansas-Missouri 
state line without becoming subject to the comprehensive jurisdiction 
of the Commission. It is stated that ANG has agreed to sell its 
Missouri facilities, except for two fifty-foot stub lines to Atmos. ANG 
states that, while the Missouri assets of the ANG system will be sold 
to Atmos, there will be a continuing need for ANG and Atmos to deliver 
gas to each other's systems. ANG states that, after the sale of 
facilities, it will use the stub lines to receive gas from Atmos or 
deliver gas to Atmos, depending on the circumstances. It is stated that 
Atmos has filed in Docket No. CP00-56-000 for a blanket certificate 
under Section 284.224 of the Commission's Regulations.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before January 26, 2000, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 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 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.
    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 motion 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 and permission for 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 procedure herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, 
it will be unnecessary for ANG to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-540 Filed 1-10-00; 8:45 am]
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