[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 111 (Tuesday, June 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 31588]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15039]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP94-817-000]
Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America; Notice of Request to
Vacate
June 4, 1997.
Take notice that on May 7, 1997, Natural Gas Pipeline Company of
America (Natural), 701 East 22nd Street, Lombard, Illinois 60148-5072,
filed in Docket No. CP94-817-000 a letter stating that the facilities
authorized in its May 26, 1995 order,\1\ have not been constructed, and
are no longer warranted. The Commission will treat Natural's letter as
a request to vacate, all as more fully set forth in the request filed
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
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\1\ See 71 FERC para. 62,148 (1995).
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By order issued May 16, 1995, in the referenced docket, Natural
received Commission authorization to construct and operate
approximately 2.86 miles of 36-inch loop line on Natural's Gulf Coast
Mainline in Effingham County, Illinois. The loop line would have
extended northward (downstream) from the outlet of Natural's Loudon
Storage Field, and would have formed part of the 36-inch No. 3 Line of
Natural's Gulf Coast Mainline.
The May 26, 1995 order required that construction be completed and
the facilities be placed in operation within one year. By petition
filed on April 18, 1996, Natural requested that such one-year period be
extended by an additional year. That extension was granted, under the
delegated authority, on April 30, 1996.
By the filing of the May 7, 1997 letter, Natural states that such
construction is not warranted, in light of generally reduced Gulf Coast
Mainline utilization levels.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said request should on or before June 25, 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 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.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15039 Filed 6-9-97; 8:45 am]
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