[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 236 (Friday, December 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 64737]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-31023]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-116-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application To
Abandon Service
December 2, 1996.
Take notice that on November 22, 1996, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Applicant), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West
Virginia 25314-1599 filed in Docket No. CP97-116-000 under Section 7(b)
of the Natural Gas Act to abandon its interest in the Boldman
Extraction Plant to MarkWest Hydrocarbon, Inc. (Mark West), and to sell
its Cobb Extraction Plant to MarkWest.
This application is filed contingent upon approval of a proposed
settlement of Applicant's Section 4 rate proceeding in Docket No. RP95-
408-000. In accordance with the proposed settlement, Applicant proposes
to cancel its lease of the Boldman Extraction Plant in Pike County,
Kentucky (which is owned by MarkWest) and abandon the products
extraction service performed there to MarkWest. Applicant also proposes
to sell the Cobb Extraction Plant to MarkWest in Kanawha County, West
Virginia, at net book value and abandon the services performed there to
MarkWest.
Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with reference
to said application should on or before December 23, 1996, 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 (1 8 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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-31023 Filed 12-5-96; 8:45 am]
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