[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 246 (Friday, December 20, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67327-67328]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-32290]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-149-000]
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application
December 16, 1996.
Take notice that on December 11, 1996, Texas Eastern Transmission
Corporation (Texas Eastern), P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 77251-1642
filed in Docket No. CP97-149-000, an application pursuant to Section
7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an order granting permission and
approval to abandon a certain exchange service which was once required
for exchange of gas between Texas Eastern and Consolidated System LNG
Company (Consolidated). Texas Eastern requests that the abandonment be
effective on the date of issuance of the Commission order.
It is stated that on February 22, 1978, the Commission issued an
order in Docket No. CP77-418-000 granting Texas Eastern and
Consolidated authorization to exchange natural gas. Texas Eastern
states that such service was rendered between Texas Eastern and
Consolidated pursuant to the terms and conditions of the exchange
agreement dated May 20, 1977 (Agreement), which is included as Rate
Schedule X-86 in Texas Eastern's FERC Gas Tariff, Original Volume No.
2.
Pursuant to the Agreement, Consolidated states that it transported
vaporized natural gas from its LNG regasification facility at Cove
Point, Maryland, through its pipeline in Loudoun, Virginia for delivery
to Texas Eastern's pipeline system at points of interconnection near
Chambersburg and Perulack, Pennsylvania. It is further stated that
Texas Eastern would concurrently exchange an equivalent quantity of gas
at existing delivery points connecting Texas Eastern's pipeline system
to the pipeline system of Consolidated Gas Supply Corporation as set
forth in the Agreement.
Texas Eastern further states that the volume of gas authorized to
be exchanged was a total maximum daily quantity of 365,000 Dth per day
of vaporized natural gas, plus a maximum day surge allowance of up to
20% above such average daily quantity as authorized by the Order.
It is also stated that Consolidated's corresponding authorization
for the exchange service with Texas Eastern was previously abandoned
pursuant to the Commission's Order Approving Contest Settlement issued
January 28, 1988 (42 F.E.R.C. para.61,078).
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before January 6, 1997 file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 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
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application if no motion to intervene is filed within the time required
herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds that
permission and approval for 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 Texas Eastern to appear or be represented at
the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-32290 Filed 12-19-96; 8:45 am]
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