Document ID: FERC-2013-1319-0001
Agency: ferc
Document Type: Notice
Title: Applications and Petitions: ONEOK, Inc. and ONE Gas, Inc.
Posted Date: 2013-10-08T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 8, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61954-61955]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-24395]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. CP13-550-000; RP13-1362-000]

ONEOK, Inc.; ONE Gas, Inc.; Notice of Application and Petition

    Take notice that on September 27, 2013, ONEOK, Inc. (ONEOK) and ONE 
Gas, Inc. (ONE Gas), 100 West Fifth Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103, 
jointly filed in Docket No. CP13-550-000 an application pursuant to 
sections 7(b), 7(c), and 7(f) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Parts 
157 and 284 of the Commission's regulations for authorizations required 
to implement the transfer certain natural gas distribution assets 
located in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas from ONEOK to

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ONE Gas pursuant to a corporate reorganization. ONEOK's natural gas 
distribution operating divisions to be transferred are Oklahoma Natural 
Gas Company, Texas Gas Service, and Kansas Gas Service. In the same 
document, ONEOK and ONE Gas jointly petition in Docket No. RP13-1362-
000, pursuant to section 385.207(a)(5) of the Commission's rules of 
practice and procedure, for the grant of temporary waiver of the 
Commission's capacity release rules.
    The authorizations requested by the applicants include: (1) 
Authorization pursuant to Section 7(b) of the NGA for ONEOK to abandon 
by transfer: (a) its Part 284 authority for interruptible interstate 
service; (b) its Section 7(c) limited jurisdiction certificate to 
transport natural gas on a no-fee basis; and (c) its Section 7(f) 
service area determination; and contemporaneously with such 
abandonment, (2) the necessary authorizations for ONE Gas to perform 
the same services as ONEOK's successor in interest, including: (a) Part 
284 authority for interruptible interstate service; (b) a limited 
jurisdiction certificate pursuant to Section 7(c) of the NGA for ONE 
Gas to transport natural gas pursuant to a No-Fee Gas Exchange 
Agreement; (c) a limited service area determination pursuant to Section 
7(f) of the NGA.
    In addition, ONE Gas requests: (1) Commission determination that 
the limited jurisdiction certificate will not affect the non-
jurisdictional status of the remainder of the natural gas distribution 
facilities it shall receive from ONEOK pursuant to the reorganization; 
and (2) Commission waiver of the requirements of part 154 of the 
Commission's regulations for as long as no fee is charged in connection 
with the No-Fee Exchange Agreement. Applicants also petition for a 
temporary waiver of the Commission's capacity release rules in order to 
permit the release of pipeline transportation service agreements from 
ONEOK to ONE Gas as necessary to implement orderly corporate 
restructuring and reorganization. Applicants request that the 
Commission consider the application and petition together and grant the 
authorizations, effective upon the closing of the transaction between 
ONEOK and ONE Gas, in an order issued by November 21, 2013.
    Any questions regarding the joint application should be directed to 
Vicky C. Benedict, Vice President and Associate General Counsel, 100 
West Fifth Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103, by phone at (918) 588-7949 or 
by email at Vicky.Benedict@oneok.com; or Lawrence G. Acker, Counsel for 
ONEOK, Inc. and ONE Gas, Inc., Van Ness Feldman, LLP, 1050 Thomas 
Jefferson Street NW., 7th Floor, Washington, DC 20007, by phone at 
(202) 298-1915, or by email at lga@vnf.com.
    There are two ways to become involved in the Commission's review of 
this project. First, any person wishing to obtain legal status by 
becoming a party to the proceedings for this project should, on or 
before the comment date stated below, file with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, a 
motion to intervene 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 NGA (18 CFR 157.10). A person 
obtaining party 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 all other parties. A party must 
submit an original and 7 copies of filings made with the Commission and 
must mail a copy to the applicant and to every other party in the 
proceeding. Only parties to the proceeding can ask for court review of 
Commission orders in the proceeding.
    However, a person does not have to intervene in order to have 
comments considered. The second way to participate is by filing with 
the Secretary of the Commission, as soon as possible, an original and 
two copies of comments in support of or in opposition to this project. 
The Commission will consider these comments in determining the 
appropriate action to be taken, but the filing of a comment alone will 
not serve to make the filer a party to the proceeding. The Commission's 
rules require that persons filing comments in opposition to the project 
provide copies of their protests only to the party or parties directly 
involved in the protest.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filings of comments, 
protests and interventions in lieu of paper using the ``eFiling'' link 
at http://www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file electronically should 
submit an original and 7 copies of the protest or intervention to the 
Federal Energy regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 
Washington, DC 20426. This filing is accessible on-line at http://www.ferc.gov, using the ``eLibrary'' link and is available for review 
in the Commission's Public Reference Room in Washington, DC. There is 
an ``eSubscription'' link on the Web site that enables subscribers to 
receive email notification when a document is added to a subscribed 
docket(s). For assistance with any FERC Online service, please email 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 208-3676 (toll free). For 
TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
    Comment Date: October 16, 2013.

    Dated: October 1, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2013-24395 Filed 10-7-13; 8:45 am]
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