[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 95 (Wednesday, May 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Page 27088]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-12287]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP01-183-000]


Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application

May 10, 2001.
    Take notice that on April 25, 2001, Southern Natural Gas Company 
(Southern) P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed an 
abbreviated application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas 
Act, as amended, and Section 157.7 and 157.14 of the Commission's 
regulations for approval of Southern's abandonment of capacity by sale 
to Cypress Natural Gas Company, L.L.C. (Cypress), all as more fully set 
forth in the application that is on file with the Commission and open 
for public inspection.
    Southern proposes to abandon by sale to Cypress an undivided 
interest in two parallel 30-inch pipelines owned and operated by 
Southern equal to 310,000 Mcf per day of capacity from the tailgate of 
the liquefied natural gas facility of Southern LNG, Inc., on Elba 
Island in Chatham County, Georgia (LNG Facility) to an interconnection 
to be constructed with the pipeline facilities of Cypress at Cypress' 
meter station at Port Wentworth in Chatham County, Georgia (Pipelines). 
Southern states that this sale of capacity in the Pipeline is being 
proposed in conjunction with an overall project by Cypress to construct 
a pipeline system from the LNG Facility to Clay County, Florida, 
pursuant to an application Cypress filed concurrently with the 
Commission. Southern states that the capacity of the pipelines of 
approximately 1250 Mmcf/d greatly exceeds the maximum daily 
vaporization quantity of the LNG Facility. Southern further states that 
this demonstrates that even after the sale of 310 Mmcf/d of capacity to 
Cypress, Southern will still retain more than enough capacity in the 
Pipelines for Southern to take the entire deliverability from the LNG 
Facility that its downstream facilities are capable of accepting. 
Southern states it will continue to operate the Pipelines.
    Any questions regarding the application should be directed to 
Patrick B. Pope, General Counsel, Southern Natural Gas Company, P.O. 
Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563 at 205-325-7133.
    There are two ways to become involved in the Commission's review of 
this project. First, any person wishing to obtain legal status by 
becoming a party to the proceedings, for this project should, on or 
before May 31, 2001, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, a motion to 
intervene 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 
status will be placed on the service list maintained by the Secretary 
of the Commission and will receive copies of all documents filed by the 
applicant and by all other parties. A party must submit 14 copies of 
filings made with the Commission and must mail a copy to the applicant 
and to every other party in the proceeding. Only parties to the 
proceeding can ask for court review of Commission orders in the 
proceeding.
    However, a person does not have to intervene in order to have 
comments considered. The second way to participate is by filing with 
the Secretary of the Commission, as soon as possible, an original and 
two copies of comments in support of or in opposition to this project. 
The Commission will consider these comments in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but the filing of a comment alone will 
not serve to make the filer a party to the proceeding. The Commission's 
rules require that persons filing comments in opposition to the project 
provide copies of their protests only to the party or parties directly 
involved in the protest.
    Comments, protests and interventions may be filed electronically 
via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and 
the instructions on the Commission's web site at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.
    If the Commission decides to set the application for a formal 
hearing before an Administrative Law Judge, the Commission will issue 
another notice describing that process. At the end of the Commission's 
review process, a final Commission order approving or denying a 
certificate will be issued.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-12287 Filed 5-15-01; 8:45 am]
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