[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 23, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17890-17891]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9887]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-311-000]
Williams Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application To Amend
Certificate
April 17, 1996.
Take notice that, on April 11, 1996, Williams Natural Gas Company
(Williams), P.O. Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed an abbreviated
application, pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, to amend the
certificate issued on September 24, 1958, in Docket No. G-10956 (20 FPC
390) by expanding the storage area of its Elk City Storage Field, all
as more fully set forth in the application, which is on file with the
Commission and open to public inspection.
The certificate issued in Docket No. G-10956 authorized Williams
(formerly: Cities Service Gas Company) to construct and operate the Elk
City Storage Field, in Elk, Chautauqua, and Montgomery Counties,
Kansas, as an underground gas storage field. Williams now requests the
Commission to authorize it to extend the Elk City Storage Field's
buffer zone north and west of its current location, by acquiring gas
storage rights under approximately 2,740 acres of land in Elk and
Montgomery Counties, Kansas. As proposed, the extension would add the
following parcels of land to the storage area:
Montgomery County, Kansas
The west half of Section 2 in T31S, R13E.
Elk County, Kansas
All of Section 3 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 4 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 9 in T31S, R13E.
All of Section 10 in T31S, R13E.
The north half of the north half of Section 15 in T31S, R13E.
The south half of the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter of
Section 15 in T31S, R13E.
The east half of Section 16 in T31S, R13E.
Williams would acquire the subject acreage by lease, purchase, or
through the exercise of eminent domain under the Natural Gas Act.
Williams states that the gas wells located on the property to be
acquired will be converted into observation wells. Williams also states
that it believes the extension will increase the effectiveness of the
storage area, enhance the overall efficiency of its storage operations,
and reduce the risk of storage gas migrating to producing wells outside
the present storage area boundary. Williams further asserts that
extending the storage area boundary, as proposed, is both reasonable
and required by the present and future public convenience and
necessity.
Any person desiring to be heard, or to make any protest with
reference to said application should, on or before May 8, 1996, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., 20426,
a motion to intervene or 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 the 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 same
required herein, or 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 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 Williams to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-9887 Filed 4-22-96; 8:45 am]
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