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[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3888-3889]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1870]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-173-000]

Texas Gas Transmission Corporation Southern Natural Gas Company; 
Notice of Application

January 21, 1998.
    Take notice that on January 8, 1998, Texas Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Texas Gas) P.O. Box 20008, Owensboro, Kentucky 42304 and 
Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern) P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, 
Alabama 35202 (jointly referred to as Applicants) filed in Docket No. 
CP98-173-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas 
Act for permission and approval to abandon a natural gas exchange 
service between Texas Gas and Southern which was authorized in Docket 
No. G-11138, all as more fully set forth in the application on file 
with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Applicants propose to abandon the exchange service between Texas 
Gas and Southern provided under Texas Gas' Rate Schedule X-7 and 
Southern's Rate Schedule 11. The Applicants state that this exchange 
service is no longer required and has been terminated by Texas Gas 
giving notice to Southern by letter dated April 19, 1996, of its intent 
to terminate the Exchange Agreement effective July 19, 1996.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before February 11, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 
20426, a motion to

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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 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 jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulation 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 abandonment 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 Applicants to appear or be represented at 
the hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-1870 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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