96-29981. El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 228 (Monday, November 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 59872-59873]
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[FR Doc No: 96-29981]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-90-000]


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

November 19, 1996.
    Take notice that on November 12, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company 
(El Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas 79978, filed in Docket No. 
CP97-90-000 a request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 
157.216) for authorization to abandon four delivery points and the 
service related thereto located in Cochise County, Arizona under El 
Paso's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000 pursuant 
to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set forth in the 
request that is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    El Paso proposes to abandon by removal four metering and/or tap 
facilities located in Cochise County, Arizona. The four facilities are 
the Campbell Shaft Delivery Point (Meter No. 20-152), Douglas Smelter 
Delivery Point (Meter No. 30-071), Douglas Smelter House No. 1 Meter 
Station (Meter No. 20-154-01) and the Douglas Smelter House No. 2 Tap 
(Meter No. 20-155-01). El Paso states that these facilities enabled it 
to sell and deliver, on a direct sale basis, natural gas to Phelps 
Dodge Mining Company, a Division of Phelps Dodge Corporation (Phelps 
Dodge), for use in its mining, smelting and metallurgical operations in 
southern Arizona.
    El Paso understands that the mining and smelting operations that 
received natural gas at the subject facilities are no longer 
functioning and therefore no longer in need of natural gas service. El

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Paso states that, in recognition of these circumstances, Phelps Dodge 
has requested that El Paso abandon and remove the facilities and 
service at the four delivery points.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, 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 Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
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 Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-29981 Filed 11-22-96; 8:45 am]
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