[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 241 (Friday, December 13, 1996)] [Notices] [Page 65566] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 96-31627] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY [Docket No. CP97-126-000] Southern Natural Gas Company; Notice of Application December 9, 1996. Take notice that on November 26, 1996, Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern), P.O. Box 2563, Birmingham, Alabama 35202-2563, filed an application with the Commission in Docket No. CP97-126-000 pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) for permission and approval to abandon its undivided interest in certain compression and dehydration facilities located on leased space on a production platform owned by Shell Offshore Inc. (SOI) in the Mississippi Canyon Block 311 field (MC Block 311), offshore Louisiana, all as more fully set forth in the application which is open to the public for inspection. Southern proposes to abandon its 44 percent undivided interest in a 4,000 horsepower compressor and appurtenant dehydration facilities located immediately upstream of the inlet flange of its receiving station facilities on the SOI Mississippi Canyon 311 platform. Southern and Florida Gas Transmission Company (FGT) received authorization to construct and operate the facilities in Docket No. CP80-257-000.\1\ Southern states that SOI would acquire its interest in the MC Block 311 compression and dehydration facilities by relieving Southern of its lease payment obligations under the platform space leases and by assuming responsibility, until decommissioning, for operation, maintenance, and repair expenses associated with the continued use of the said MC Block 311 facilities. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ 11 FERC para. 61,346 (1980). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before December 30, 1996, filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 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 NGA (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 NGA 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 own 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 Southern to appear or be represented at the hearing. Lois D. Cashell, Secretary. [FR Doc. 96-31627 Filed 12-12-96; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-M