[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 69 (Monday, April 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 18985]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-8753]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-162-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

April 4, 2000.
    Take notice that on March 29, 2000, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), Post Office Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed a request with 
the Commission in Docket No. CP00-162-000, pursuant to Section 
157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA) for authorization to abandon by removal the Belen City Gate Meter 
Station authorized in blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-
435-000, all as more fully set forth in the request 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).
    El Paso proposes to abandon by removal the Belen City Gate Meter 
Station, serving PNM Gas Services, a division of Public Service Company 
of New Mexico (PNMGS). El Paso states that authorization for a budget-
type sales facilities and services, including the Belen City Gate Meter 
Station, with appurtenances was received by order issued on December 
14, 1967 in Docket No. CP68-88-000. El Paso reports that the facility 
was required by El Paso to facilitate the delivery, measurement and 
sale of natural gas from its interstate transmission pipeline system to 
PNMGS for resale. El Paso continues that due to load growth in the 
Belen and Los Lunas, New Mexico areas PNMGS has expanded its 
distribution system, and that PNMGS has requested El Paso to construct, 
install and operate a new delivery point, the Belen North Delivery 
Point, near its newly expanded system.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after the 
Commission has issued this notice, 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If 
no protest is filed within the allowed time, 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 NGA.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-8753 Filed 4-7-00; 8:45 am]
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