[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 198 (Thursday, October 12, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60659-60660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26120]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP00-463-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation, Columbia Gas 
Transmission Corporation; Columbia Gulf Transmission Company, Notice of 
Application

October 5, 2000.
    Take notice that on September 15, 2000, Transcontinental Gas Pipe 
Line Corporation (Transco), 2800 Post Oak Boulevard, Houston, Texas 
77056; Columbia Gulf Transmission Company (Columbia Gulf), 2603 
Augusta, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77057-5637; and Columbia 
Transmission Corporation (Columbia), 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, 
Virginia, 22030-1046 (jointly referred to as Applicants), tendered for 
filing a joint application for a certificate of public convenience and 
necessity pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to 
abandon: (1) Certain transportation services which were once required 
to permit Transco to transport natural gas for Columbia in offshore 
Louisiana; (2) certain exchange services which were once required to 
permit the exchange of natural gas between Transco and Columbia in the 
Lake Hatch Field, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana; and (3) certain 
transportation and exchange of natural gas between Columbia, Columbia 
Gulf, and Transco in offshore, Louisiana, all as more fully set forth 
in the application, which is on file and open to public inspection. The 
application may be viewed on the web at www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm 
(call (202) 208-2222 for assistance).
    Applicants assert that no abandonment of any facility is proposed. 
Applicants also assert that the rate schedules for which Applicants

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seek abandonment authority are as follows:

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            Docket No.                   Company name      Rate schedule
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CP76-132..........................  Transco..............  X-97
CP79-199..........................  Columbia.............  X-89
CP79-199..........................  Transco..............  X-214
CP79-393..........................  Columbia.............  X-94
CP79-393..........................  Columbia Gulf........  X-72
CP79-393..........................  Transco..............  X-223
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    The contact person for Columbia is Victoria J. Hamilton, 1700 
MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., P.O. Box 1273, Charleston, West Virginia 25325-
1273 at (304) 357-2927. The contact person for Transco is Julie P. 
Baumgarten, Esquire, P.O. Box 1396, Houston, Texas 77251-1396 at (713) 
215-2344. The contact person for Columbia Gulf is Jacquelyne M. Rocan, 
Esquire, 2603 Augusta, Suite 125, Houston, Texas 77057-5637 at (713) 
267-4743.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make protest with reference 
to said application should on or before October 26, 2000, file with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
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 must file therein a motion to 
intervene in accordance with the Commission's rules.
    Take further notice that, pursuant to the authority contained in 
and subject to jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Section 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 that 
permission and approval for the proposed abandonments are required by 
the public convenience or 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 Applicants to appear or to be represented at 
the hearing.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 00-26120 Filed 10-11-00; 8:45 am]
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