[Federal Register: April 30, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 83)] [Notices] [Page 23290] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr30ap99-61] [[Page 23290]] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. CP99-290-000] Boundary Gas, Inc., Notice of Application April 15, 1999. Take notice that on April 7, 1999, Boundary Gas, Inc. (Boundary), 100 Cummings Center, Suite 457G, Beverly, Massachusetts 01915-6132, filed an application in Docket No. CP99-290-000 pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Part 157 of the Commission's Regulations, for authority to abandon gas service to Yankee Gas Services Company (Yankee) effective July 2, 19998, 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 http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call (202) 208-2222 for assistance). Boundary states that by letter dated June 26, 1997, Boundary and Yankee reached an agreement permitting Yankee to terminate its contractual relationship with Boundary and to enter into a separate agreement to purchase directly from TransCanada Pipelines Limited (TransCanada), Boundary's supplier, the volumes of gas Yankee has previously taken from Boundary, effective the date that Yankee was to specify in a Notice of Termination (Notice). Boundary also states that Yankee served the Notice on June 25, 1998 to Boundary stating that Yankee was terminating its contract effective July 1, 1998. Boundary further states that Yankee implemented its termination on July 2, 1998. Boundary says that on January 28, 1999, Boundary and TransCanada entered into a letter agreement. Boundary and all of the other Repurchasers \1\ entered into the Amendment to Phase 2 Gas Sales Agreement and the Eighth Amendment to Memorandum of Agreement (copies are included in Exhibit U of the application), all of which provide, inter alian, for the departure of Yankee effective July 2, 1998. Boundary also says that prior to Yankee's withdrawal, its stock ownership in Boundary was 10.23 percent, which entitled it to purchase 9,463 Mcf per day. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ Boundary is a close corporation wholly owned by its fourteen stockholders who are referred to as Repurchasers and all of them are local distribution companies located in New York, New Jersey and New England, plus they are Boundary's only customers. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with reference to said application should on or before May 6, 1999, file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 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 385.214) 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 in any 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 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 procedures herein provided for, unless otherwise advised, it will be unnecessary for Boundary to appear or be represented at the hearing. Linwood A. Watson, Jr., Acting Secretary. [FR Doc. 99-10928 Filed 4-29-99; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-M