[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 3, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 161]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-00028]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP96-106-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation and Texas Eastern 
Transmission Corporation; Notice of Application

December 27, 1995.
    Take notice that on December 15, 1995, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia), 1700 MacCorkle Avenue, S.E., Charleston, West 
Virginia 25314-1599, and Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation, 5400 
Westheimer Court, Houston, Texas 77056-5310, jointly filed in Docket 
No. CP96-106-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural 
Gas Act and Part 157 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's 
Regulations for permission and approval to abandon transportation and 
exchange services, all as more fully set forth in the application which 
is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    The transportation and exchange services for which abandonment is 
sought, were authorized by the Commission in separate orders issued 
August 8, 1978 (Docket No. CP78-162, 4 FERC para. 61,123 [1978]) and 
March 21, 1979 (Docket No. CP79-86, 6 FERC para. 61,247 [1979]), and 
involve services made pursuant to Texas Eastern Rate Schedule Nos. X-92 
and X-95 and Columbia Rate Schedule No. X-82.
    Columbia and Texas Eastern state that service under Rate Schedule 
Nos. X-82 and X-92 last occurred in 1983, while service under Rate 
Schedule No. X-95 was last performed prior to 1985.
    Columbia and Texas Eastern also state that the contracts underlying 
the transportation and exchange services were terminated in an order 
issued September 13, 1993 by the United States Bankruptcy Court for the 
District of Delaware in Case Nos. 91-803 and 91-804.
    Columbia and Texas Eastern submit that the proposed abandonment is 
required by the present and future public convenience and necessity, as 
it will eliminate transportation services no longer needed and will 
permit these companies to cancel their corresponding rate schedules in 
Volume No. II of their FERC Gas Tariff.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said application should on or before January 17, 1996, 
file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at 888 First 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 385.211) 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 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 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 or Texas Eastern to appear or be 
represented at the hearing.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-00028 Filed 1-2-96; 8:45 am]
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