[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 60 (Friday, March 28, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 14896]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7850]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP97-263-000]


Ashland Exploration, Inc.; Notice of Application

March 24, 1997.
    Take notice that on March 21, 1997, Ashland Exploration, Inc. 
(Ashland), 14701 Saint Mary's Lane, Houston, Texas 77079, completed the 
filing of an abbreviated application for a certificate of public 
convenience and necessity pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural Gas 
Act initially submitted on February 24, 1997. Ashland requests 
authorization to modify its remaining Martha Field pipeline facilities 
to accept the interconnection of a tap with the facilities to be 
constructed by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (Tennessee) and to 
install and operate compression associated with the Tennessee tap. 
Ashland also requests modification of its current certificate authority 
to deliver gas from Kentucky to West Virginia for sale to Mountaineer 
Gas Company to permit it to deliver gas to any buyer, all as more fully 
set forth in the application which is on file with the Commission and 
open to the public for inspection.
    The remaining Martha Field pipeline facilities consist of 
approximately 6.9 miles of pipeline in the State of Kentucky which 
terminates in the State of West Virginia, approximately 6,000 feet from 
Ashland's Catlettsburg, Kentucky refinery.
    Any persons desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should, on or before April 14, 1997, 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 and 18 CFR 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 the 
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 the request should be granted. 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 Ashland to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-7850 Filed 3-27-97; 8:45 am]
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