[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 238 (Friday, December 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68445-68446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-32919]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-90-000]
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Application To Abandon
December 7, 1998.
Take notice that on November 24, 1998, Tennessee Gas Pipeline
Company (Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252, filed an
application in Docket No. CP99-90-000 pursuant to Section 7(b) of the
Natural Gas Act for authority to abandon 7,000 Dth/day of firm
transportation service for New England Power Company (NEPCO) under
Tennessee's Rate Schedule NET and Part 157 of the Commission's
regulations. Tennessee further requests that the Commission grant such
abandonment authorization retroactively effective April 1, 1996.
Tennessee's proposal is more fully set forth in the application which
is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Tennessee states that on April 1, 1996, Tennessee and NEPCO amended
the Rate Schedule NET contract to reduce the transportation, quantity
from 60,000 Dth/day to 53,000 Dth/day. In addition, Tennessee and NEPCO
entered into a new contract which provided that 7,000 Dth/day would be
transported pursuant to Tennessee's Rate Schedule NET-284 and Part 284
of the Commission's regulations.
Tennessee explains that 7,000 Dth/day of NEPCO's part 157 service
was converted to Part 284 service after posting, from March 14, 1996
through December 31, 1996, on Tennessee's EBB of an offer to waive the
deadline for
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notice by a Rate Schedule NET shipper of its election to convert,
contained in Section 1(b) of Rate Schedule NET-284. Tennessee states
that the wavier was made pursuant to Article XXXIII (formerly Article
XXXI) of the General Terms and Conditions of Volume No. 1 of
Tennessee's FERC gas tariff which provides that Tennessee may waive
such provisions without seeking the Commission's approval if the waiver
is uniformly applicable to all affected customers. Tennessee further
states that all Rate Schedule NET shippers were given the opportunity
to elect to convert all or a portion of their NET transportation
quantity to service under Rate Schedule NET-284.
On August 21, 1998, Tennessee filed an application in Docket No.
CP98-739-000 requesting authorization to abandon 53,000 Dth/day of
service to NEPCO under the amended NET contract and to permit USGen New
England, Inc. to assume NEPCO's service entitlement pursuant to a new
firm transportation agreement under Rate Schedule NET. By letter dated
November 6, 1998, in Docket No. CP98-739-000, the Director of the
Commission's Office of Pipeline Regulation informed Tennessee that it
must file an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas
Act for authority to abandon part of NEPCO's Part 157 service earlier
converted to Part 284 service.
Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with reference
to said application should on or before December 28, 1998, file with
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 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 no motion to intervene is filed within the time
required, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds
that permission and approval of the proposed abandonment are 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 Tennessee to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-32919 Filed 12-10-98; 8:45 am]
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