[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 190 (Wednesday, October 1, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 51463]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-25959]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-763-000]


Koch Gateway Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

September 25, 1997.
    Take notice that on September 19, 1997, Koch Gateway Pipeline 
Company (Koch Gateway), Post Office Box 1478, Houston, Texas 77251-
1478, filed in Docket No. CP97-763-000 a request pursuant to Sections 
157.205 and 157.216 of the Commission's Regulations under the Natural 
Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205 and 157.216) for permission and approval to 
abandon a 1-inch tap and meter station used to serve Venture Oil 
Company (Venture) located in Jasper County, Mississippi. Koch Gateway 
makes such request under its blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 
CP82-430 pursuant to Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as more 
fully set forth in the request on file with the Commission and open to 
public inspection.
    It is stated that the tap is located entirely within Koch Gateway's 
existing right-of-way. Koch Gateway proposes to plug the tap and to 
remove all associated above ground facilities.
    Koch Gateway indicates that the facilities were installed sometime 
in 1952, at an estimated cost of somewhere between $200-$400,\1\ to 
provide interruptible transportation service of up to 1,000 Mcf per 
day. However, Koch Gateway was able to cite a Commission order, where 
Koch Gateway was granted authority to provide transportation service to 
this delivery tap in conjunction with direct sales service to Exxon Co. 
U.S.A., Inc.\2\ Since then, Tenneco Oil Company and then Venture 
acquired the Exxon facilities.
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    \1\ Koch Gateway states that after a diligent search of its 
records, it was unable to report the complete certificate history of 
the tap, or locate the accounting entry for the installation of the 
tap.
    \2\ Koch Gateway Pipeline Company, 41 FERC para. 61,306 (1987) 
in Docket No. CP87-432-000.
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    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 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. 97-25959 Filed 9-30-97; 8:45 am]
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