[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 69 (Tuesday, April 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15797-15798]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-8741]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-284-000]
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Application
April 3, 1996.
Take notice that on March 28, 1996, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Corporation (TGPL), P.O. Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, filed in
Docket No. CP96-284-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon certain firm
sales service provided to Elizabethtown Gas Company (Elizabethtown),
under TGPL's Rate Schedule FS, which was authorized in Docket No. CP88-
391 et al., all as more fully set forth in the application on file with
the Commission and open to public inspection.
TGPL states that it entered into two firm sales agreements with
Elizabethtown on August 1, 1991, under which TGPL sells gas to
Elizabethtown under Rate Schedule FS with Daily Sales Entitlements of
10,000 Mcf/day, and 14,702 Mcf/day (as amended, ``FS Agreements''). The
FS Agreements were amended effective April 1, 1995.
TGPL states that, in accordance with Paragraph 1 of Article IV of
the FS Service Agreements, TGPL delivers gas to Elizabethtown at
various upstream points of delivery. TGPL states that it acts as agent
for Elizabethtown for the purpose of arranging for the transportation
of gas purchased from the points of delivery to the points of
redelivery identified in each of Elizabethtown's FS Agreements.
TGPL states that, by this application, TGPL seeks authorization to
abandon the FS Agreement for Daily Sales Entitlement of 10,000 Mcf
effective March 31, 1996, pursuant to
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Elizabethtown's election to terminate that agreement.
TGPL states that Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreement
between TGPL and Elizabethtown provides that at the end of the primary
term, and on each anniversary date thereafter, the term of the Service
Agreement will be extended by successive one Contract Year periods
unless either party notifies the other in writing not less than two
Contract Years prior to the end of the primary term or two Contract
Years prior to any anniversary date thereafter, as the case may be, of
its election not to extend the term of the Service Agreement. TGPL
states that Paragraph 1 of Article II of the FS Agreement provides that
for purposes of the FS Agreement, ``Contract Year'' is defined as the
period from the effective date (specified as November 30, 1990) through
March 31, 1991, and each twelve month period thereafter for the term of
the agreement.
TGPL further states that the primary term of the 10,000 FS
Agreement ended July 31, 1994, but its term was extended in accordance
with Paragraph 2 of Article II of the FS Agreement. TGPL states that,
by letter dated March 28, 1994, Elizabethtown provided TGPL with its
two-year notice to terminate the FS Agreement, effectively terminating
the FS Agreement as of March 31, 1996.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before April 24, 1996, 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 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 TGPL to appear or be represented at the
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-8741 Filed 4-8-96; 8:45 am]
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