[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 164 (Thursday, August 24, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 44028]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20981]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-683-000]
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation and Florida Gas
Transmission Company; Notice of Application
August 18, 1995.
Take notice that on August 10, 1995, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line
Corporation (Transco), P.O. Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251, and Florida
Gas Transmission Company (Florida) (Transco and Florida are referred to
jointly as Applicants), 1400 Smith Street, P.O. Box 1188, Houston,
Texas 77251-1188, filed in Docket No. CP95-683-000 an application
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and
approval to abandon a jointly owned meter facility,\1\ all as more
fully set forth in the application on file with the Commission and open
to public inspection.
\1\ It is stated that the meter facility was originally
constructed by Transco as part of the Mobile Bay Lateral pursuant to
Section 311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1987 and Section
284.3(c) of the Commission's regulations. Further, by order issued
October 20, 1992, in Docket No. CP92-405-000 (61 FERC para. 61,073
(1992)), the Commission granted Transco certificate authority under
Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act to operate the Mobile Bay
Lateral; and Florida acquired its ownership interest in the facility
pursuant to the authorizations granted in Docket Nos. CP92-182, et
al. See 62 FERC para. 61,024 (1993); 63 FERC para. 61,093 (1993);
and 66 FERC para. 61,160 (1994).
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Applicants propose to abandon a certain meter facility by sale to
Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast Inc. (MOEPSI). It is stated
that the meter facility is located at the interconnection between
MOEPSI's gas treatment facility and Applicants' jointly owned Mobile
Bay Lateral (also referred to sometimes as the Onshore Mobile Bay
Pipeline) near Coden in Mobile County, Alabama.
Applicants state that the public interest would be served by the
requested abandonment because the abandonment would result in the most
economically efficient utilization of the meter facility. Specifically,
Applicants state that the meter facility is currently classified for
rate purposes on Transco's system as a gathering facility, and,
therefore, shippers moving gas through Transco's capacity in the meter
facility must pay Transco's separately stated gathering charge under
its transportation rate schedules. (Florida does not have a separately
stated gathering charge for services rendered through the meter
facility.) Applicants understand that after the transfer of ownership
of the meter facility to MOEPSI, the meter facility would be considered
as part of MOEPSI's gas treatment plant operations and MOEPSI would
absorb the cost of the meter facility into its current infrastructure
charges for the plant. As a result, it is stated, Transco's shippers no
longer would incur Transco's separately stated gathering charge for
transportation service from the plant, and, because the cost of the
meter facility would be absorbed into the plant charges, the producers
would not incur any separate charge for MOEPSI's measurement of the gas
at the meter facility.
Applicants state that the purchase price to be paid by MOEPSI for
the meter facility would be the net book value of the meter facility as
of the closing of the purchase and sale.
Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with
reference to said application should on or before September 8, 1995,
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.
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
the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be
held without further notice before the Commission or its designee on
this application if no motion to intervene 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 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 Transco or Florida to appear or be
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-20981 Filed 8-23-95; 8:45 am]
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