[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 143 (Monday, July 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40111-40112]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-19961]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. GP98-39-000]


Finney-Kearny County Gas Venture and Westgate Greenland, L.P.; 
Notice of Petition for Extension of Time Pending Verification of Extent 
of Refund Liability

July 21, 1998.
    Take notice that, on July 7, 1998, Finney-Kearny County Gas Venture 
(Finney-Kearny) and Westgate Greenland, L.P. (Westgate) filed a 
petition requesting an extension of time to make Kansas ad valorem tax 
refunds to K N Interstate Gas Transmission Company (KNI). Finney-Kearny 
and Westgate assert that KNI has certain factual data that they have 
requested and that they need to verify whether they owe KNI any Kansas 
ad valorem tax refunds. Finney-Kearny and Westgate do not describe the 
information that they seek from KNI, but state simply that KNI has not 
provided the ``full factual data'' they previously requested. 
Therefore, Finney-Kearny and Westgate request that they be granted an 
extension of time to make refunds until the later of: 1) 90 days; or 2) 
30 days after the date that KNI submits the full factual data sought by 
Finney-Kearny and Westgate. Finney-Kearny and Westgate's petition is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.

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    The Commission, by order issued September 10, 1997, in Docket No. 
RP97-369-000,\1\ on remand from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals,\2\ 
required First Sellers to refund Kansas ad valorem tax reimbursements 
to pipelines, with interest, for the period from 1983 to 1988, by March 
9, 1998. In its January 28, 1998 Order Clarifying Procedures [82 FERC 
para. 61,059 (1998)], the Commission stated that producers (i.e., First 
Sellers) could file dispute resolution requests with the Commission, 
asking the Commission to resolve the dispute with the pipeline over the 
amount of Kansas ad valorem tax refunds owed.
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    \1\ See 80 FERC para. 61,264 (1997); order denying rehearing 
issued January 28, 1998, 82 FERC para. 61,058 (1998).
    \2\ Public Service Company of Colorado v. FERC, 91 F.3d 1478 
(D.C. 1996), cert. denied, Nos. 96-954 and 96-1230 (65 U.S.L.W. 3751 
and 3754, May 12, 1997).
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    Any person desiring to comment on or make any protest with respect 
to the above-referenced petition should, on or before August 11, 1998, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, 
N.E., Washington, D.C., 20426, a motion to intervene or protest in 
accordance with the requirements of the Commission's Rules of Practice 
and Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211). 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-19961 Filed 7-24-98; 8:45 am]
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