[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 64 (Thursday, April 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15882-15883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8465]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-304-000]
Questar Pipeline Company; Notice of Application
March 28, 1997.
Take notice that on March 24, 1997, Questar Pipeline Company
(Questar), 79 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84111, filed in
Docket No. CP97-304-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the
Natural Gas Act, for permission and approval to abandon, a compressor
and related facilities located at the Horseshoe Draw Compressor Station
in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, all as more fully set forth in the
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
Questar requests authority to abandon one 1,085 horsepower gas
turbine compressor, the Horseshoe Draw compressor, and associated flow-
control and automation equipment, two 24 MMcf/d dehydration units, two
generator sets, a 2 MMBtu/d line heater and miscellaneous valves, yard
and station piping located at the junction of Questar's Jurisdictional
Lateral No. 6 and Questar's Main Line No. 22 in southwestern Wyoming.
It is indicated that those facilities have not been used during the
past five years.
Questar states that, upon receipt of the requested abandonment
authority, the Horseshoe Draw compressor will be physically removed
from its present location, restaged and installed at Questar's existing
Nightingale-Kanda-Coleman Compressor Complex also located in Sweetwater
County, Wyoming. (Questar indicates its intent to install the Horseshoe
Draw compressor at the Nightingale Station pursuant to 18 CFR 2.55(b).
It is stated that related flow control and automation equipment will
also be relocated to the Nightingale-Kanda-Coleman Compressor Complex,
while the balance of the facilities at Questar's Horseshoe Compressor
site will be abandoned, physically removed and scrapped. It is stated
that the gross book and net book value of the facilities to be
abandoned, total $782,570 and $457,804 respectively.
Further, Questar explains that the removal of the above-described
facilities will have no adverse impact on transmission services
provided by Questar. Questar asserts that its abandonment project does
not constitute a major Federal action that could significantly affect
the quality of the human environment, since all principal facilities to
be removed are skid-mounted, and all abandonment activities will take
place within the confines of the existing Horseshoe Draw Compressor
Station yard.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before April 14, 1997, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20426, a
motion to intervene or a
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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 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 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 Questar to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-8465 Filed 4-2-97; 8:45 am]
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