[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 49797]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-426-000]


ONEOK Midstream Pipeline Inc.; Notice of Application

August 9, 2000.
    Take notice that on August 1, 2000, ONEOK Midstream Pipeline, Inc. 
(ONEOK Midstream), 100 West Fifth Street, Tulsa, P.O. Box 871, Oklahoma 
74102, filed an application in Docket No. CP00-426-000, pursuant to 
section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for permission and approval 
to abandon all of its jurisdictional facilities and services, 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).
    ONEOK Midstream proposes to abandon its entire pipeline system 
which consists of 27-miles of 16-inch pipeline in Garvin county, 
Oklahoma. It is stated that the facilities extend downstream of the 
Rodman Plant to interconnects with Williams Gas Pipelines Central, Inc. 
(Williams), ONEOK Gas Transportation, L.L.C. (OGT), Transok, Inc. 
(Transok), and Reliant Interstate Gas Transmission Company. It is 
indicated that OGT and Transok are intrastate pipelines. ONEOK 
Midstream submits that its facilities qualify as a gathering system 
exempt from Commission jurisdiction under section 1(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act. ONEOK Midstream points out that the Commission previously 
determined in an order issued in Docket No. CP92-351-000 that the 
Rodman Plant and the facilities upstream of the plant were gathering 
facilities, and cites several Commission cases in which the Commission 
determined that facilities downstream of a processing plant were 
likewise gathering facilities.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to said application should on or before August 30, 2000, 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 
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. The Commission's rules require that protestors provide 
copies of their protests to the party or parties directly involved. 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 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 a grant of the certificate is 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 ONEOK Midstream to appear or be represented 
at the hearing.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-20634 Filed 8-14-00; 8:45 am]
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