[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 37 (Friday, February 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6988-6989]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4044]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-185-000]
ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of Application
February 16, 1996.
Take notice that on February 12, 1996, ANR Pipeline Company
(``ANR''), 500 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243, filed an
abbreviated application (``Application'') pursuant to Section 7(b) of
the Natural Gas Act (``NGA''), as amended, for an order granting
permission and approval to abandon by sale (``spinoff'') to GPM Gas
Corporation (``GPM'') certain gathering facilities and a 15.1 mile
pipeline segment which is currently functionalized as transmission, all
as more fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission
and open to public inspection.
ANR has requested that the Commission issue an order to be
effective July 1, 1996.
ANR states that it has entered into a Purchase and Sale Agreement
(Agreement) wherein ANR has agreed, subject to necessary Commission
authorizations, to sell the GPM certain of ANR's gathering facilities
and the 15.1 mile segment of transmission pipeline. These facilities
are comprised of five discrete areas in northwest Oklahoma: (i)
Laverne; (ii) Lovedale; (iii) Woodward; (iv) Korfman; and (v)
Weatherford. GPM, in turn, will assume all operations of these
facilities and provide gathering services through them.
In addition, GPM has requested of ANR that ANR request the FERC to
provide confidential treatment to the following information otherwise
to have been included in the public filing of this application.
1. The price to be paid by GPM to ANR for the assets being
abandoned and the terms relating to those payments, which are contained
in the Agreement and in Exhibit Y to the abandonment application; and
2. The price and term for which GPM will provide gas gathering
service to ANR as to gas ANR is obliged to purchase or otherwise
controls for a period from the date of the abandonment and continuing
for an agreed time beyond expiration of the ``default contract'' (the
two year period following the abandonment and transfer), which is
contained in exhibits to the Agreement (Schedule F, Tab 1).
With respect to its remaining southwest gathering facilities, in an
application filed contemporaneously with this Application in Docket No.
CP96-186-000, ANR states that it is proposing to: (1) Abandon such
facilities by transfer or ``spindown'' to ANR Field Services Company;
or (2) refunctionalize them to transmission. ANR states that due to the
bulk and nature of the documents involved and the large service list in
this case certain material has been omitted from certain of the filed
copies and the service copies of the filing. ANR states that these
materials will be available for public inspection at the following
locations:
ANR Pipeline Company, 500 Renaissance Center, Detroit, Michigan 48243,
Contact: Bruce C. Hopper, Telephone: 313/496-2492
ANR Pipeline Company, 2000 M Street, N.W. #300, Washington, DC 20036,
Contact: Jens Faaborg, Telephone: 202/331-4612
ANR Pipeline Company, Nine Greenway Plaza, Houston, Texas 77046,
Contact: Steven R. Anderson, Telephone: 713/877-7625
GPM Gas Services Company, B. J. Miller, 210 Park Avenue #2500, Oklahoma
City, OK 73102-5627, Telephone: 405/270-8192
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before March 8, 1996, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426,
a petition 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 filed a petition 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 petition to intervene is filed within the time
required herein, if the Commission on its own review of the matter
finds that a grant of the certificate is required by the public
convenience and necessity. If a petition for leave 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 provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will
be unnecessary for ANR to appear or be represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
FR Doc. 96-4044 Filed 2-22-96; 8:45 am]
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