
[Federal Register: February 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 30)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP78-123-000; CP80-435-000]


Alaskan Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company; Notice of
Effectiveness of Surrender of Certificate and Termination of Proceeding

February 6, 2009.
    On December 15, 2008, as supplemented on January 23, 2009, Alaskan
Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company (ANNGTC) \1\ submitted a
notice that it was surrendering the conditional certificate that the
Commission issued to ANNGTC in Docket Nos. CP78-123 and CP80-435,
authorizing the construction of the Alaskan pipeline segment of the
Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System (ANGTS) and the Alaska Gas
Conditioning Facility.\2\ ANNGTC's partners have concluded that ANNGTC
is no longer a viable entity and that ANNGTC cannot feasibly pursue the
ANGTS pipeline project conditionally authorized in Docket Nos. CP78-123
and CP80-435.
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    \1\ ANNGTC is a partnership, the sole remaining partners of
which are TransCanada Pipeline USA, Ltd. and United Alaska Fuels
Corporation.
    \2\ See Alcan Pipeline Company, 1 FERC ] 61,248 (1977); Alaskan
Northwest Natural Gas Transportation Company (formerly Alcan
Pipeline Company and Northwest Alaskan Pipeline Company), 3 FERC ]
61,290 (1978); 18 FERC ] 61,002 (1982); and Northwest Alaskan
Pipeline Company, et al., 19 FERC ] 61,078 (1982).
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    Because ANNGTC never perfected its conditional certificate and
never constructed any facilities or provided any services under the
Natural Gas Act (NGA), there are no facilities or services subject to
the abandonment provisions of NGA section 7(b), and no abandonment
authorization or other Commission action is required. Accordingly,
ANNGTC's surrender of the certificate issued in Docket Nos. CP78-123
and CP80-435 is accepted by the Commission and this proceeding is
terminated.

Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E9-3228 Filed 2-13-09; 8:45 am]

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