97-21754. Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 159 (Monday, August 18, 1997)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-686-000]


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

August 12, 1997.
    Take notice that on August 7, 1997, Williston Basin Interstate 
Pipeline Company (Williston), 200 North Third Street, Suite 300, 
Bismarck, ND 58501, filed in Docket No. CP97-686-000 a request pursuant 
to Sections 157.205 and 157.216(b) of the Commission's Regulations 
under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216) for approval to 
abandon 4,280 feet of four-inch lateral pipeline located in Richland 
County, MT, under Wiliston's blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP82-487-000 et al., pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act 
(NGA), all as more fully set forth in the request which is on file with 
the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Williston asserts that the pipeline proposed to be abandoned herein 
was originally constructed in 1978 to allow the receipt of gas from a 
supplier at the Petrolane-Perry Gas Processing Company Plant (Plant) 
and/or to deliver natural gas to the supplier to be used as field fuel. 
Williston further asserts that the Plant was shut down in the early 
1980's and that Williston has not received natural gas from the Plant 
since 1983 or made deliveries of natural gas through this pipeline 
since 1993. Williston thus proposes to purge this pipeline and abandon 
it in place.
    Any person or the Commission's Staff may, within 45 days of the 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 
385.214), a motion to intervene and pursuant to Section 157.205 of the 
regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205), a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
the proposed activities 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and not withdrawn within 30 days after the time allowed for filing a 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-21754 Filed 8-15-97; 8:45 am]
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