[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 151 (Thursday, August 6, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 42015]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-20981]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP98-684-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application for 
Abandonment

July 31, 1998.
    Take notice that on July 22, 1998, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 12801 Fair Lakes Parkway, Fairfax, Virginia 
22030-0146, filed in Docket No. CP98-684-000 an application pursuant to 
Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to 
abandon by sale to Blazer Energy Corporation (Blazer), a wholly owned 
subsidiary of Statoil Energy, Inc., certain certificated natural gas 
facilities, to abandon the service provided through the facilities to 
be sold, and to abandon an exchange service with CNG Transmission 
Corporation (CNG) and permission to amend the related exchange 
agreement to remove that point, all as more fully set forth in the 
application on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Columbia states that Columbia and Blazer entered into a Purchase 
and Sale Agreement dated July 15, 1997, which provides that Columbia 
will sell to Blazer all of its interest in certain pipeline facilities 
located in Fayette, Raleigh, and Kanawha Counties, West Virginia. 
Columbia proposed (i) to abandon, by sale to Blazer, Columbia's 
interest in certificated facilities designed as Lines KA-7, KA-12, KA-
13, and the Carbon Compressor Station, located in West Virginia; (ii) 
to abandon the services provided through the facilities to be sold; and 
(iii) to abandon a point of exchange with CNG Transmission Corporation 
and permission to amend Columbia's Exchange Agreement X-35 to remove 
that point.
    Concurrently with this application, Blazer filed a petition for a 
declaratory order in Docket No. CP98-683-000 requesting that the 
Commission declare that certain facilities Blazer proposes to acquire 
from Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation (Columbia) are gathering 
facilities exempt from Commission jurisdiction under Section 1(b) of 
the Natural Gas Act (NGA).
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before August 21, 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 385.214 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 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 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-20981 Filed 8-5-98; 8:45 am]
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