[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 158 (Tuesday, August 15, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49797-49798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-20663]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RP98-52-038]


Williams Gas Pipeline-Central, Inc.; Notice of Superseding Offer 
of Settlement

August 9, 2000.
    Take notice that on August 7, 2000, the Missouri Public Services 
Commission, Williams Gas Pipelines-Central, Inc., formerly Williams 
Natural Gas Company, Missouri Gas Energy, a division of Southern Union 
Company, and forth-three working interest owners (collectively called 
Sponsoring Parties) filed a Superseding Offer of Settlement 
(Superseding Offer) under Rule 602 of the Commission's Rules of 
Practice and Procedure in the captioned docket. Sponsoring Parties 
state the purpose of the Superseding Offer is to facilitate settlement 
and mitigate administrative burdens resulting from the Commission's 
implementation of the decision of the United States Court of Appeals 
for the District of Columbia Circuit in Public Service Company of 
Colorado.\1\ The Sponsoring Parties further state the Superseding Offer 
replaces and supersedes the Offer of Settlement filed in Docket No. 
RP98-52-000 on October 1, 1999. A copy of the Superseding Offer is on 
file with the Commission and is available for public inspection in the 
Public Reference Room. The Offer of Settlement may be viewed on the web 
at http://

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www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
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    \1\ Public Service Co. of Colorado, et al., 80 FERC para. 61,264 
(1997), reh'g denied, 82 FERC para. 61,058 (1998). Appeal pending. 
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation v. FERC, Case No. 98-1227 et al.
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    The Superseding Offer would increase the credit towards the Kansas 
ad valorem tax refund liability from $50,000 to $100,000 and apply the 
credit to 309 working interest owners identified by certain operators 
as well as to each operator that has not provided working interest 
owner information. Sponsoring Parties state that the Superseding Offer 
would eliminate the claimed refund obligation for 289 working interest 
owners and 27 operators who have not provided working interest owner 
data.
    In accordance with section 385.602(f), initial comments on the 
Superseding Offer are due August 28, 2000, and any reply comments are 
due September 7, 2000.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-20663 Filed 8-14-00; 8:45 am]
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