[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 111 (Wednesday, June 10, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31762-31763]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15367]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-572-000]


NorAm Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Application for 
Abandonment

June 4, 1998.
    Take notice that on May 29, 1998, NorAm Gas Transmission Company 
(NGT), 1111 Louisiana, Houston, Texas 77002 filed an application 
pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the 
Commission's Regulations requesting permission and approval to abandon 
exchange services with Arkansas Oklahoma Gas Company (AOG). The 
application is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    NGT states that Arkla Energy Resources Company, now NGT, entered 
into exchange transactions in 1973 and 1979 with AOG. NGT states that 
the 1973 and 1979 exchange agreements were certificated in Docket No. 
CP87-458 by Order Issuing Certificate and Authorizing Abandonment 
issued June 8, 1989 (47 FERC para. 61,342). As of July 1, 1990 the 1973 
and 1979 exchanges

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were combined into one agreement for administrative convenience. NGT 
states that there is no longer a need for these transactions which have 
been terminated by the written consent of both parties. No facilities 
are proposed to be abandoned in connection with the authorization 
requested.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before June 25, 1998, 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 385.211 and 
385.214) and the regulations under the National 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. And person wishing 
to become a party in any proceeding herein 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 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 permission and 
approval for the proposed abandonment are 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 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 NGT to appear or to be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15367 Filed 6-9-98; 8:45 am]
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