[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 18768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9896]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-313-000]
Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Petition for
Declaratory Order and Request for Certificate of Public Convenience and
Necessity
April 11, 1997.
Take notice that on April 3, 1997, Columbia Gas Transmission
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West
Virginia 25314-1599, filed in Docket No. CP97-313-000 a petition
pursuant to Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Rule 207(a)(2)
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR
385.207(a)(2)), for a declaratory order requesting that an existing
facility, located in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, be refunctionalized
from gathering to transmission. Further, Columbia, pursuant to Section
7(c) of the NGA, requests authorization that this facility
refunctionalized to transmission be certificated as a jurisdictional
transmission facility, all as more fully set forth in the petition
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Columbia states that as a result of a detailed facility review
completed in association with preparation of its spin-off application
filed in Docket No. CP97-127-000, Columbia determined that its Line
12206, an existing facility which is presently functionalized as
gathering, serves a transmission function. Columbia states that Line
12206, consisting of approximately 6,041 feet of 8-inch-diameter
pipeline, is located between facilities to be sold to Somerset
Exploration Corporation and Columbia's transmission facilities.
Columbia states that it noted in its application filed in Docket
No. CP97-127-000, that it would spin-off certain of its gathering
facilities to various purchasers by public auction, and that it would
be filing the instant petition to refunctionalize gathering facilities
to transmission.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said petition should on or before May 2, 1997, file with
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 384.214 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 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 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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-9896 Filed 4-16-97; 8:45 am]
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