Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Application

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 119 (Tuesday, June 22, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 33278]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15762]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. CP99-553-000]


Reliant Energy Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Application

June 16, 1999.
    Take notice that on June 11, 1999, Reliant Energy Gas Transmission 
Company (REGT), P.O. Box 21734, Shreveport, Louisiana 71151, filed in 
Docket No. CP99-553-000 an application pursuant to Section 7(b) of the 
Natural Gas Act for permission and approval to abandon certain 
facilities in Kay County, Oklahoma, all as more fully set forth in the 
application which is on file with the Commission and open to public 
inspection. This filing may be viewed on the web at 
www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
    REGT proposes to abandon and reclaim a deteriorated delivery 
lateral line, Line A-3-C, comprised of approximately 2,814 feet of 2-
inch dresser-coupled pipe, and a 1-inch rural domestic tap, located in 
Kay County, Oklahoma, because of safety and economic reasons. REGT 
states that Line A-3-C has functioned only to deliver gas to one rural 
customer served by Reliant Energy-Arkla, a distribution division of 
Reliant Energy Resources Corporation (Arkla). REGT declares that Line 
A-3-C is deteriorated and exposed, and REGT has experienced annual gas 
losses of approximately 576 dth (when priced at current gas prices 
equates to an annual value of $1,354). REGT asserts that comparatively, 
in 1998, REGT delivered approximately 123 dth annually to Arkla and 
received annual revenues of approximately $26. REGT states that to 
continue safe and reliable service through Line A-3-C and eliminate the 
loss of gas, REGT would have to replace this lien at an estimated cost 
of $22,558, which does not take into account the future cots to operate 
and maintain such line.
    REGT states that Line A-3-C delivers gas to Arkla for further 
deliveries to a single rural customer, Mr. Elbert Urban. REGT asserts 
that it has offered $1,500 as compensation to Mr. Urban for converting 
his existing gas service to an alternate source of fuel. REGT declares 
that Mr. Urban has rejected their offer. REGT states that 
alternatively, Mr. Urban requested that REGT relocate his meter and 
purchase, at its sole expense, an inactive plastic line along a county 
road adjacent to Mr. Urban's property. REGT declares that this 
alternative is unacceptable and uneconomical, due to the addition of 
the unknown cost of purchasing the pipe, two road crossings would have 
to be constructed, requiring the purchase of new pipe, at an estimated 
cost of $7,403. Despite the lack of agreement, REGT requests authority 
to abandon the pipe for safety and economic reasons.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said Application should on or before July 7, 1999, 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 385.211 or 18 CFR 385.214) 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 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 petition to 
intervene is filed within the time required herein, if the Commission 
on its own review of the matter finds that a grant of the abandonment 
is required by the public convenience and necessity. If a petition 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-15762 Filed 6-21-99; 8:45 am]
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