99-8617. Receipt of Application for a Presidential Permit for Pipeline Facilities To Be Converted To Crude Oil Service on the Border of the United States

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 66 (Wednesday, April 7, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 17052]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-8617]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy, Sanctions, and 
Commodities
[Public Notice 3023]


Receipt of Application for a Presidential Permit for Pipeline 
Facilities To Be Converted To Crude Oil Service on the Border of the 
United States

AGENCY: Department of State.

SUMMARY: The Department of State has received an application from 
Portland Pipe Line Corporation requesting a Presidential permit, 
pursuant to Executive Order 11423 of August 16, 1968, as amended by 
Executive Order 12847 of May 17, 1993, authorizing Portland to return 
to crude oil service an existing 18-inch pipeline, and to connect, 
operate and maintain this pipeline crossing the international boundary 
between the United States and Canada at a point near North Troy, 
Vermont. The pipeline has been operated in interstate natural gas 
transmission service by Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc. under a 
lease from Portland Pipe Line Corporation since 1987. Portland Pipe 
Line Corporation is a Maine corporation with its principal place of 
business in South Portland, Maine. The applicant proposes to return the 
pipeline to crude oil service no later than October 1, 1999.

DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit, in duplicate, comments 
relative to this proposal on or before May 15, 1999.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matthew McManus, Division Chief, 
Energy Producing Countries, Department of State, Washington, DC. 20520. 
[phone].
Matthew McManus,
Division Chief, Energy Producing Countries, Bureau of Economic and 
Business Affairs.
[FR Doc. 99-8617 Filed 4-6-99; 8:45 am]
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