[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 116 (Friday, June 16, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 31707]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-14743]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-543-000]
Northern Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Application for Abandonment
June 12, 1995.
Take notice that on June 5, 1995, Northern Natural Gas Company
(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, Omaha, Nebraska 68124-1000, filed,
in Docket No. CP95-543-000, an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of
the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations
for permission and approval to abandon, as non-jurisdictional
facilities, by sale to Highlands Gathering and Processing Company
(Highlands), certain compression, pipeline facilities, and delivery
points, with appurtenances, located in Crockett, Schleicher, Sutton,
and Val Verde Countries, Texas, as more fully set forth in the
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
Northern states that it has entered into an April 21, 1995, Asset
Purchase Agreement with Highlands pursuant to which Highlands will
acquire from Northern approximately 128 miles of pipeline with pipe
diameters ranging between four to sixteen inches in Crockett,
Schleicher, Sutton and Val Verde Counties, Texas, and seven
transmission lateral compressor stations located in Crockett,
Schleicher, and Sutton Counties, Texas. Additionally, Northern proposes
to abandon and convey to Highlands all farm taps, interconnecting
points, and delivery points located on the subject facilities. Northern
relates that the facilities which it proposes to abandon and convey to
Highlands include the following segments: Highlands include the
following segments: Hulldale Segment, Hullidale Loop Segment, Hunt-
Baggett Segment, and Vinegarone Segment. Northern states that the
segment facilities will be conveyed to Highlands for $3.1 million.
Northern says that the subject facilities were constructed as gas
supply facilities in order for Northern to fulfill its merchant sales
obligation but are no longer needed by Northern as its role in the
marketplace has changed from a merchant or natural gas to a transporter
of natural gas.
Northern notes that Highlands will file a companion filing, a
Petition for Declaratory Order, which will seek a determination that
the subject facilities of this abandonment application, once conveyed
to Highlands, are gathering facilities, not subject to the Commission's
jurisdiction pursuant to NGA Section 1(b). The petition was filed June
6, 1995, in docket No. CP95-547-000.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before July 3, 1995, file
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. 20426,
a motion to intervene or a protest in accordance with the requirements
to the Commission's Rules and Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214
and 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 in any proceeding herein 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 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 designed on this application if no motion
to intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the
Commission on its own review of the matters 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 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 Northern to appear or to be represented at
the hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-14743 Filed 6-15-95; 8:45 am]
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