Their plans, Their plans, however, were still in the developmental stages. Coastal States required an immediate contingency plan to minimize the effect of a natural gas curtailment on its multi plant, operations. The obvious question was, what operations should be curtained, and to what extent could the adverse effect upon profits be minimized? Coastal States had approval from the FPC and Cajan pipeline to specify which of its plants would bear the burden of the curtailment if such cutbacks were necessary. McNair of Cajan Pipeline, replied, "It's your pie': we don't care how you divide it if we make it smaller.