[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 179 (Thursday, September 14, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55515-55516]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23595]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-451-000]


Texas-Ohio Pipeline, Inc.; Notice of Application

September 8, 2000.
    Take notice that on August 31, 2000, Texas-Ohio Pipeline, Inc. 
(Texas-Ohio), 1331 Seventeenth Street, Suite 601, Denver Colorado 
80202, filed in Docket No. CP00-419-000 an application pursuant to 
Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to 
abandon all of its remaining jurisdictional facilities and services, 
all as more fully set forth in the application 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/htm (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance).
    Texas-Ohio proposes to abandon in place or by removal all of its 
remaining jurisdictional facilities in Garrard County, Kentucky 
including 600 feet of above-ground 10-inch pipeline, related values and 
piping and appurtenant facilities. It is stated that it received 
authorization in Docket No. CP00-419-000 to abandon a rental compressor 
unit. Texas-Ohio indicates that it has had no contracts for firm 
service since 1997 and that requests for interruptible service has been 
insignificant for more than three years. Texas-Ohio states that its 
facilities interconnected the facilities of Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee) and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation (Texas 
Eastern) to eliminate bottlenecks on their respective systems. It is 
now indicated that that in 1998, Tennessee placed into operation an 
interconnecting facility with Texas Eastern which would further 
eliminate any further markets for Texas-Ohio's facilities. Accordingly, 
Texas-Ohio requests abandonment of its currently-effective Part 157 
certificate and its Part 284 transportation certificate.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to James 
D. Albright, Associate General Counsel of Xcel Energy Services, Inc., 
at (303) 294-2753.

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    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before September 29, 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 385.214 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 not 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 Texas-Ohio to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-23595 Filed 9-13-00; 8:45 am]
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