Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 193 / Monday, October 6, 1997 / Notices 52095

CIG states that it proposes to construct

the Campo Lateral from an interconnect

with CIG’s 10-inch diameter Picketwire

Lateral in Las Animas County, Colorado

to an interconnect with CIG’s Campo

Regulator Station in Baca County,

Colorado. The proposal consists of

approximately 115 miles of 16-inch

diameter pipeline and will increase

CIG’s capacity out of the Raton Basin

Area in Colorado and New Mexico. The

capacity of the proposed lateral is

approximately 110,000 Mcf per day,

with an estimated cost of approximately

$20.6 million.

CIG states that it has existing and

incremental firm transportation

commitments increased to 73 percent of

the capacity of the proposed lateral in

August, 2000. CIG has further requested

an advance determination that these

facilities be given rolled-in rate

treatment.

CIG also requests appropriate

Commission authority required to

increase the Picketwire lateral

maximum allowable operating pressure

to 1308 psig.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before October

21, 1997, file with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, Washington,

D.C. 20426, a motion to intervene or a

protest in accordance with the

requirement 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.

A person obtaining intervenor status

will be placed on the service list

maintained by the Secretary of the

Commission and will receive copies of

all documents filed by the applicant and

by every one of the intervenors. An

intervenor can file for rehearing of any

Commission order and can petition for

court review of any such order.

However, an intervenor must submit

copies of comments or any other filing

it makes with the Commission to every

other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as 14 copies with the Commission.

A person does not have to intervene,

however, in order to have comments

considered. A person, instead, may

submit two copies of comments to the

Secretary of the Commission.

Commenters will be placed on the

Commission’s environmental mailing

list, will receive copies of

environmental documents and will be

able to participate in meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Commenters will not be required to

serve copies of filed documents on all

other parties. However, commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

filed by the other parties or issued by

the Commission and will not have the

right to seek rehearing or appeal the

Commission’s final order to a federal

court.

The Commission will consider all

comments and concerns equally,

whether filed by commenters or those

requesting intervenor status.

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 a grant of the

certificate is 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 CIG to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP97–776–000]

Koch Gateway Pipeline Company;

Notice of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

September 30, 1997.

Take notice that on September 26,

1997, Koch Gateway Pipeline Company

(Koch Gateway), P.O. Box 1478,

Houston, Texas 77251–1478, filed in

Docket No. CP97–776–000 a request

pursuant to Sections 157.205 and

157.216 of the Commission’s

Regulations under the Natural Gas Act

(18 CFR 157.205, 157.216) for

authorization to abandon eleven

delivery taps in Hancock, Harrison and

Jackson Counties, Mississippi, under

Koch Gateway’s 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 that is on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Koch Gateway requests authorization

to abandon eleven (11) farm taps on its

Index 276 transmission pipeline in

Hancock, Harrison and Jackson Counties

Mississippi. Koch Gateway states that it

is taking steps to implement the order

issued on June 21, 1994 in FERC Docket

No. CP94–76–000 to abandon by sale to

Koch Pipeline, Inc., a subsidiary of

Koch Industries, Inc., its Index 276

transmission pipeline. In its application

for abandonment Koch Gateway

indicated that is would make prior

notice filings to abandon existing

delivery taps on the Index 276 and that

this instant filing is one of those filings.

Koch Gateway proposes to plug each

tap and remove all valves and aboveground appurtenances at the various

locations. Koch Gateway states that

these farm taps were originally

certificated in FPC Docket No. G–232,

and that the taps are inactive and no

services will be affected by the proposed

abandonment. Koch Gateway states that

Entex, Inc. (Entex), the local distribution

company through which these farm tap

services were previously provided, has

removed its metering facilities at each

farm tap location, and that Entex has

agreed to the proposed abandonment.

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.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–26367 Filed 10–3–97; 8:45 am]

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