[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 75 (Wednesday, April 19, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19577-19578]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-9596]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP95-317-000]


Williams Natural Gas Co.; Notice of Application

April 13, 1995.
    Take notice that on April 11, 1995, Williams Natural Gas Company 
(WNG), Post Office Box 3288, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74101, filed an 
application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act for an 
order permitting the abandonment of approximately 25.8 miles of 26-inch 
pipeline and appurtenant facilities located in Texas County, Oklahoma, 
by conveyance to Williams Gas Processing--Mid-Continent Region Company 
(WGP-MCR), all as more fully set forth in the application which is on 
file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    WNG will convey approximately 25.8 miles of its 26-inch Straight to 
Blackwell pipeline and appurtenant facilities. WNG states that Williams 
Field Services Company (WFS), an affiliate of WGP-MCR, has begun 
construction of a processing plant, the Baker Plant, adjacent to WNG's 
26-inch Straight to Blackwell pipeline at a location approximately one 
mile east of the Interconnection between the Liberal-Baker sub-system 
and WNG's 26-inch Straight to Blackwell line and approximately 25.8 
miles east of the Straight compressor station. WNG states that the 
plant will process gas from both the Straight sub-system and the 
Liberal-Baker sub-system. WNG asserts that after the construction of 
the WFS processing plant, WNG's 26-inch Straight to Blackwell pipeline 
will function as the final segment of gathering facilities, delivering 
gas from both the Straight sub-system and the Liberal-Baker sub-system 
as well as gas from third-party gathering systems to the new processing 
plant.
    WNG notes that the Commission issued a Preliminary Determination on 
Abandonment Application and on Jurisdictional Status of Facilities in 
Docket No. CP94-196-000 and held that it would not make a determination 
that a similar pipeline located upstream of the Hobart Ranch Plant was 
gathering until the plant was operational. WNG states that it waited to 
file this application until construction began on the Baker Plant, to 
avoid those concerns. WNG claims that the Baker Plant is scheduled to 
be operating by November 1, 1995 pursuant to requirements in the 
construction contract. WNG requests that the Commission process this 
abandonment application but it does not request an order until the 
Baker Plant is operating.
    WNG states that the total original cost of the pipeline was 
approximately $713,771, with a depreciated net book value of 
approximately $21,077 as of January 31, 1995. WNG proposes to convey 
the subject pipeline to WGP-MCR effective on the last day of the 
calendar month following the calendar month in which the Commission 
issues a final order, acceptable to WNG and WGP-MCR, approving the 
abandonment.
    WNG does not believe that a separate Section 4 filing seeking 
authority to terminate services on this line segment is required. WNG 
states that this line segment which will be transferred to WGP-MCR is 
currently part of the Production Area portion of WNG's transmission 
system and, upon abandonment, will become part of WGP-MCR's gathering 
facilities. Therefore, WNG states that the line segment will be subject 
to the Section 4 filing WNG is required to make in Docket No. CP94-196-
000.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make a protest with reference 
to said application should, on or before May 3, 1995, file with the 
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol Street, N.E., 
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 the jurisdiction conferred upon the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission by Section 7 and 15 of the Natural Gas Act and 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, a hearing will be held 
without further notice before the [[Page 19578]] Commission 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 Applicant to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 95-9596 Filed 4-18-95; 8:45 am]
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