97-15184. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 112 (Wednesday, June 11, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31810-31811]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-15184]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-547-000]


Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request 
Under Blanket Authorization

June 5, 1997.
    Take notice that on May 27, 1997, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston Basin), Suite 300, 200 North Third Street, 
Bismarck, North Dakota 58501, filed in Docket No. CP97-547-000 a 
request pursuant to Sections 157.205 and 157.216 of the Commission's 
Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, 157.216) for 
authorization to abandon a farm tap at Station 154+90 on the Cleveland-
Grafton pipeline in Stutsman County, North Dakota, under Williston 
Basin's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-487-000 et al. 
pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully set 
forth in the request that is on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    Williston Basin proposes to remove the tap and riser and the below-
ground valve will be accessed by backhoe excavation of an area almost 
10 feet in diameter. The valve will be shut in and the excavated area 
on existing right-of-way will be backfilled and leveled. The owner will 
cultivate the area and seeding is unnecessary. The farm tap is located 
in NE\1/4\, Section 18, TWP140N, RGE67W, Stutsman County, North Dakota. 
Williston Basin states that Montana-Dakota, a local distribution 
company, has requested that this tap be abandoned since the only end-
use customer no longer requests service there. The tap's abandonment 
will not affect Williston Basin's peak day or annual transportation to 
Montana-Dakota and the total volumes delivered will not exceed total 
volumes authorized prior to this request.
    Any person or the Commission's staff may, within 45 days after 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Procedural Rules (18 CFR 385.214) a motion to 
intervene or notice of intervention and pursuant to Section 157.205 of 
the Regulations under the

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Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a protest to the request. If no 
protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, the proposed 
activity shall be deemed to be authorized effective the day after the 
time allowed for filing a protest. If a protest is filed and not 
withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a protest, 
the instant request shall be treated as an application for 
authorization pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-15184 Filed 6-10-97; 8:45 am]
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