[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 24, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38443-38444]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18745]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-634-000]
Mississippi River Transmission Corporation; Texas Gas
Transmission Corporation; Notice of Joint Application
July 18, 1996.
Take notice that on July 11, 1996, Mississippi River Transmission
Corporation (MRT), 1600 Smith, Houston, Texas 77002 and Texas Gas
Transmission Corporation (Texas Gas), 3800 Frederica Street, Owensboro,
Kentucky 42301, filed a joint application pursuant to Section 7(b) of
the Natural Gas Act requesting authority to abandon two exchange
agreements, represented by MRT's Rate Schedules X-3 and X-10 and Texas
Gas' Rate Schedules X-39 and X-60 and one transportation service
represented by MRT's Rate Schedule X-22, all as more fully set forth in
the application which is on file with the Commission and open to public
inspection.
MRT's Rate Schedule X-3 and Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-39 were
originally certificated by an order issued by the Commission in Docket
No. CP72-97. This exchange agreement covered the exchange of natural
gas at the outlets of the gasoline plants of Union Texas Petroleum in
Bossier Parish, Louisiana and of Southwest Gas Producing Company in
Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, where both MRT and Texas Gas received gas
produced in fields in northern Louisiana.
MRT's Rate Schedule X-10 and Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-60 were
originally certificated in Docket No. CP74-243. This exchange covered
the delivery from one party to the other at one of two exchange points
located at the intersections of MRT's and Texas Gas' pipelines near
Texas Gas' Bastrop, Louisiana, compressor station and MRT's Unionville,
Louisiana compressor station. This exchange allowed MRT to inject
maximum volumes of gas into its West and East Unionville Storage Fields
during the summer injection period to help meet its winter season
requirements.
MRT's Rate Schedule X-22 was originally certificated in Docket No.
CP86-87. This transportation agreement allowed MRT to transport up to
10,000 Mcf/day on an interruptible basis for Texas Gas. Texas Gas was
to purchase gas from Amoco Production Company's (Amoco) Woodlawn field
in Harrison County, Texas to be delivered into an interconnection to
MRT at the outlet side of Damson Gas Processing Company's Woodlawn
field processing plant. MRT would then redeliver equivalent quantities
of gas to Texas Gas by reducing amounts delivered to MRT by Union Texas
Petroleum and by Kerr-McGee Corporation from their plants in Bossier
and Lincoln Parishes, Louisiana.
MRT and Texas Gas state that these arrangements are no longer
necessary or beneficial to the parties and have been terminated
pursuant to mutual written agreement of the parties. Neither MRT or
Texas Gas propose to abandon or rearrange any of their facilities as a
result of the proposed abandonment.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make a protest with reference
to said application should, on or before August 8, 1996, file with the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (888 First Street, NE.,
Washington, DC. 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
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held
without further notice before the Commission 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
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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 MRT or Texas Gas to appear or be represented
at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-18745 Filed 7-23-96; 8:45 am]
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