[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 94 (Tuesday, May 14, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 24301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11981]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. CP96-488-000]


El Paso Natural Gas Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket 
Authorization

May 8, 1996.
    Take notice that on May 3, 1996, El Paso Natural Gas Company (El 
Paso), P.O. Box 1492, El Paso, Texas, 79978, filed in Docket No. CP96-
488-000 a request pursuant to Section 157.205, and 157.216(b) of the 
Commission's Regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.205, and 
157.216) for approval to abandon certain miscellaneous tap and meter 
facilities and the service rendered by means thereof, under the blanket 
certificate issued in Docket No. CP82-435-000, pursuant to Section 7(c) 
of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), all as more fully set forth in the 
request which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection.
    El Paso states that the certificate authorizations for the 
construction and operation of the miscellaneous tap and meter 
facilities for which El Paso now seeks abandonment authorization were 
issued in Docket Nos. G-2363, CP69-23, CP70-78, CP74-119, and CP84-243, 
or installation and service was permitted under Section 2.55(c) of the 
Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure. El Paso indicates that 
these facilities were required to facilitate, generally, the delivery 
and/or measurement and sale of natural gas from its interstate 
transmission pipeline system to certain customers for resale.
    The request for authorization further states that with respect to 
these miscellaneous tap and meter facilities, El Paso periodically 
reviews, inter alia, the operating status of such facilities located on 
its interstate pipeline system. El Paso indicates that such review has 
show that there are twelve miscellaneous tap and meter facilities 
located in various counties in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas that are 
eligible for abandonment for which El Paso now seeks abandonment.
    El Paso asserts that it proposes to abandon such facilities and to 
thereafter remove and place in stock the salvable materials and scrap 
the nonsalvable items, without material change in its average cost-of-
service. It is further asserted that the proposed abandonments will not 
result in or case any interruption, reduction, or termination of 
natural gas service presently rendered El Paso to any of its customers.
    Any person or the Commission's Staff may, within 45 days of the 
issuance of the instant notice by the Commission, file pursuant to Rule 
214 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 
385.214), a motion to intervene and pursuant to Section 157.205 of the 
regulations under the Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.295), a protest to 
the request. If no protest is filed within the time allowed therefor, 
the proposed activities shall 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 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.
Linwood A. Watson. Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-11981 Filed 5-13-96; 8:45 am]
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