Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 242 / Wednesday, December 17, 1997 / Notices 66071

Any person desiring to participate in

the hearing process or to make any

protest with reference to said

application should on or before

December 22, 1997, 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. The Commission’s

rules require that protesters provide

copies of their protests to the party or

parties directly involved. 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 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

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 MIGC to appear or be

represented at the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–32843 Filed 12–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–116–000]

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation;

Notice of Request Under Blanket

Authorization

December 11, 1997.

Take notice that on December 4, 1997,

National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation

(National Fuel), 10 Lafayette Square,

Buffalo, New York, 14203, filed in

Docket No. CP98–116–000, a request,

pursuant to Sections 157.205 and

157.214 of the Commission’s

Regulations under the Natural Gas Act

(18 CFR 157.205 and 157.214), for

authorization to increase the storage

capacity at its Keelor Storage Field in

McKean County, Pennsylvania, under

its blanket certificate issued in Docket

No. CP83–4–000, pursuant to Section 7

of the Natural Gas Act, all as more fully

set forth in the request which is on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

National Fuel requests authorization

to increase the storage capacity from 3.3

Bcf (with 1.8 Bcf working gas) to 3.9 Bcf

(with 2.4 Bcf of working gas). National

Fuel asserts that the new capacity

resulting from this proposal will

support storage service to be offered to

its shippers. National Fuel states that

the increase in capacity at the Keelor

Storage Field will not require additional

facilities within the meaning of the

Commission’s regulations. National Fuel

indicates that the current and requested

maximum storage pressures are 625

psig.

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 therefore,

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. 97–32835 Filed 12–16–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–113–000]

Southern Natural Gas Company;

Florida Gas Transmission Company;

Notice of Application

December 11, 1997.

Take notice that on December 4, 1997,

Southern Natural Gas Company

(Southern) P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham,

Alabama, 35202–2563, and Florida Gas

Transmission Company (FGT) (jointly

referred to as Applicants) filed in

Docket No. CP98–113–000 an

abbreviated application pursuant to

Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act, as

amended, and Sections 157.7 and

157.18 of the Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission’s Regulations thereunder,

for permission and approval to abandon

from interstate service a natural gas

exchange service by and between

Applicant, all as more fully set forth in

the application which is on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Applicants state that the natural gas

exchange agreement dated June 28,

1972, was originally authorized in

Docket No. CP73–14. Applicants further

state that the agreement provided for the

exchange of natural gas by and between

themselves, up to 50,000 Mcf per day,

at a point of interconnection between

their respective pipeline systems in

Washington Parish, Louisiana.

Applicants assert that the abandonment