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[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 74 (Thursday, April 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 18768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9896]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP97-313-000]

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Petition for 
Declaratory Order and Request for Certificate of Public Convenience and 
Necessity

April 11, 1997.
    Take notice that on April 3, 1997, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25314-1599, filed in Docket No. CP97-313-000 a petition 
pursuant to Section 16 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Rule 207(a)(2) 
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 
385.207(a)(2)), for a declaratory order requesting that an existing 
facility, located in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, be refunctionalized 
from gathering to transmission. Further, Columbia, pursuant to Section 
7(c) of the NGA, requests authorization that this facility 
refunctionalized to transmission be certificated as a jurisdictional 
transmission facility, all as more fully set forth in the petition 
which is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Columbia states that as a result of a detailed facility review 
completed in association with preparation of its spin-off application 
filed in Docket No. CP97-127-000, Columbia determined that its Line 
12206, an existing facility which is presently functionalized as 
gathering, serves a transmission function. Columbia states that Line 
12206, consisting of approximately 6,041 feet of 8-inch-diameter 
pipeline, is located between facilities to be sold to Somerset 
Exploration Corporation and Columbia's transmission facilities.
    Columbia states that it noted in its application filed in Docket 
No. CP97-127-000, that it would spin-off certain of its gathering 
facilities to various purchasers by public auction, and that it would 
be filing the instant petition to refunctionalize gathering facilities 
to transmission.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said petition should on or before May 2, 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 384.214 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.
    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 Columbia to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-9896 Filed 4-16-97; 8:45 am]
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