Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Application To Abandon

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 238 (Friday, December 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68445-68446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-32919]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-90-000]


Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Application To Abandon

December 7, 1998.
    Take notice that on November 24, 1998, Tennessee Gas Pipeline 
Company (Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston, Texas 77252, filed an 
application in Docket No. CP99-90-000 pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for authority to abandon 7,000 Dth/day of firm 
transportation service for New England Power Company (NEPCO) under 
Tennessee's Rate Schedule NET and Part 157 of the Commission's 
regulations. Tennessee further requests that the Commission grant such 
abandonment authorization retroactively effective April 1, 1996. 
Tennessee's proposal is more fully set forth in the application which 
is on file with the Commission and open to public inspection.
    Tennessee states that on April 1, 1996, Tennessee and NEPCO amended 
the Rate Schedule NET contract to reduce the transportation, quantity 
from 60,000 Dth/day to 53,000 Dth/day. In addition, Tennessee and NEPCO 
entered into a new contract which provided that 7,000 Dth/day would be 
transported pursuant to Tennessee's Rate Schedule NET-284 and Part 284 
of the Commission's regulations.
    Tennessee explains that 7,000 Dth/day of NEPCO's part 157 service 
was converted to Part 284 service after posting, from March 14, 1996 
through December 31, 1996, on Tennessee's EBB of an offer to waive the 
deadline for

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notice by a Rate Schedule NET shipper of its election to convert, 
contained in Section 1(b) of Rate Schedule NET-284. Tennessee states 
that the wavier was made pursuant to Article XXXIII (formerly Article 
XXXI) of the General Terms and Conditions of Volume No. 1 of 
Tennessee's FERC gas tariff which provides that Tennessee may waive 
such provisions without seeking the Commission's approval if the waiver 
is uniformly applicable to all affected customers. Tennessee further 
states that all Rate Schedule NET shippers were given the opportunity 
to elect to convert all or a portion of their NET transportation 
quantity to service under Rate Schedule NET-284.
    On August 21, 1998, Tennessee filed an application in Docket No. 
CP98-739-000 requesting authorization to abandon 53,000 Dth/day of 
service to NEPCO under the amended NET contract and to permit USGen New 
England, Inc. to assume NEPCO's service entitlement pursuant to a new 
firm transportation agreement under Rate Schedule NET. By letter dated 
November 6, 1998, in Docket No. CP98-739-000, the Director of the 
Commission's Office of Pipeline Regulation informed Tennessee that it 
must file an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas 
Act for authority to abandon part of NEPCO's Part 157 service earlier 
converted to Part 284 service.
    Any person desiring to be heard or make any protest with reference 
to said application should on or before December 28, 1998, file with 
the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 385.214 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 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, or if the Commission on its own review of the matter finds 
that permission and approval of 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 Tennessee to appear or be represented at the 
hearing.
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-32919 Filed 12-10-98; 8:45 am]
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