LEXSEE 52 F.E.R.C. 61268Natural Gas Transportation Agreement • July 5th, 2006
Contract Type FiledJuly 5th, 2006Applicants in the above--captioned dockets have requested the Commission to grant permission, pursuant to section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act (NGA), to abandon certain natural gas facilities and/or to declare that certain natural gas facilities are exempt from the Commission's NGA jurisdiction by operation of the "production and gathering" exemption contained in section 1(b) of the NGA. n1 In this order we discuss the Commission's methodology for determining whether natural gas facilities are exempt from the Commission's NGA jurisdiction under the section 1(b) exemption generally, and resolve the above--captioned requests for abandonment authorization and jurisdictional determinations.