42016 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 151 /Thursday, August 6, 1998 / Notices

Any person or the Commission’s staff

may, within 45 days after issuance of

the instant notice by the Commission,

file pursuant to Rule 214 of the

Commission’s Procedural Rules (18 CFR

385.214) a motion to intervene or notice

of intervention and pursuant to Section

157.205 of the Regulations under the

Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205) a

protest to the request. If no protest is

filed within the time allowed therefor,

the proposed activity shall be deemed to

be authorized effective the day after the

time allowed for filing a protest. If a

protest is filed and not withdrawn

within 30 days after the time allowed

for filing a protest, the instant request

shall be treated as an application for

authorization pursuant to Section 7 of

the Natural Gas Act.

David P. Boergers,

Acting Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–20982 Filed 8–5–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP98–678–000]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Application

July 31, 1998.

Take notice that on July 21, 1998,

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

(Columbia) filed an abbreviated

application in Docket No. CP98–678–

000 pursuant to sections 7(b) and 7(c) of

the Natural Gas Act and Part 157 of the

Commission’s regulations for a

certificate of public convenience and

necessity authorizing the continued

operation of an existing natural gas

storage field and related facilities, an

order granting permission and approval

to abandon certain natural gas storage

field facilities and the conversion of two

active injection/withdrawal storage

wells to observation well status.

Columbia’s proposal is more fully

described in its application which is on

file with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

Specifically, Columbia seeks the

issuance of a certificate of public

convenience and necessity authorizing:

(a) the continued operation of the

Greenwood Storage Field in Steuben

County, New York, and related facilities

as presently constituted, as well as a

formal recognition of the protective

boundary surrounding the storage field

to assure Columbia’s right of eminent

domain for the gas storage easements in

the storage field under section 7(h) of

the Natural Gas Act.

(b) the abandonment of Storage Well

Lines 9008 and 9009 in their entirety

and the reclassification and conversion

of wells H–99 (the well tying into Line

9008) and H–114 (the well tying into

line 9009) from injection/withdrawal

wells to observation status, located in

the Greenwood Storage Field.

Any person desiring to be heard or to

make any protest with reference to said

application should on or before August

21, 1998, filed with the Federal Energy

Regulatory Commission, 888 First

Street, NE., Washington, DC 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

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. The Commission’s

Rules require that protestors provide

copies of their protests to the party or

parties against whom the protests are

directed. 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.

A person obtaining intervenor status

will be placed on the service list

maintained by the Secretary of the

Commission and will receive copies of

all documents filed by the applicant and

by every one of the intervenors. An

intervenor can file for rehearing of any

Commission order and can petition for

court review of any such order.

However, an intervenor must submit

copies of comments or any other filings

it makes with the Commission to every

other intervenor in the proceeding, as

well as an original and 14 copies with

the Commission.

A person does not have to intervene,

however, in order to have

environmental comments considered. A

person, instead, may submit two copies

of comments to the Secretary of the

Commission. Commenters will be

placed on the Commission’s

environmental mailing list, will receive

copies of environmental documents and

will be able to participate in meetings

associated with the Commission’s

environmental review process.

Commenters will not be required to

serve copies of filed documents on all

other parties. However, commenters

will not receive copies of all documents

filed by other parties or issued by the

Commission and will not have the right

to seek rehearing or appeal the

Commission’s final order to a federal

court.

The Commission will consider all

comments and concerns equally,

whether filed by commenters or those

requesting intervenor status.

Take further notice that, pursuant to

the authority contained in and subject to

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 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. 98–20985 Filed 8–5–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. TM98–6–34–000

Florida Gas Transmission Company;

Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC

Gas Tariff

July 31, 1998.

Take notice that on July 29, 1998,

Florida Gas Transmission Company

(FGT) tendered for filing to become part

of its FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised

Volume No. 1, the following tariff

sheets, effective September 1, 1998:

Twenty-Eighth Revised Sheet No. 8A

Nineteenth Revised Sheet No. 8A.01

Twentieth Revised Sheet No. 8A.02

FGT states that it is requesting waiver

of the Effective Dates prescribed in

Section 27.A.1 of its Tariff to make an

out-of-cycle filing to reset its base Fuel

Reimbursement Charge Percentage

(FRCP) for the current Summer Period at

2.96% effective September 1, 1998. This

is the same fuel percentage currently

being retained by FGT. FGT has

experienced an over recovery of fuel for

the three months ended June 30, 1998,

with its actual fuel usage and lost and

unaccounted for gas as a percentage of

deliveries averaging 2.81%. FGT