[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 37 (Thursday, February 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9326-9327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4622]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-83-002]
Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in
FERC Gas Tariff
February 19, 1999.
Take notice that on February 16, 1999, Eastern Shore Natural Gas
Company (Eastern Shore) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas
Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1), the following revised tariff
sheets, with a proposed effective date of November 2, 1998:
2nd Sub 3rd Rev. Sheet No. 160A
First Revised Sheet No. 162
Original Sheet No. 162A
Eastern Shore states that the filing is being made in compliance
with the Commission's letter order issued on February 9, 1999 (February
9 Order) in the referenced docket
Eastern Shore states that on October 9, 1998, it submitted a filing
to comply with the Commission's Order No. 587-H issued July 15, 1998 in
Docket No. RM96-1-008 (the Order). The Order required pipelines to
adopt Version 1.3 of the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) standards
dealing with intraday nominations and nomination and scheduling
procedures. In addition, the Order established November 2, 1998 as the
date for implementation of the regulations regarding intraday
nominations.
Eastern Shore states that the commission, in a letter order issued
on November 6, 1998, found that, although Eastern Shore had generally
complied with Order No. 587-H, it (i) incorrectly changed the GISB
version number from 1.2 to 1.3 for several GISB Standards previous
incorporated into Eastern Shore's tariff, (ii) failed to incorporate
verbatim or by reference GISB Standards 1.3.2(v), 1.3.2(vi), and 1.2.8
through 1.2.12, (iii) filed to include bumping notice procedures
consistent with those in its OFO provisions, and (iv) did not address
the issue of waiver of daily ``non-critical'' penalties.
Eastern Shore states that on December 1, 1998, it submitted a
filing to comply with items (i), (ii) and (iii) above. With respect to
item (i) above, no action was necessary as the Commission rejected such
proposed tariff sheets as moot. With respect to item (ii) Eastern Shore
added appropriate language to Sheet No. 160A to incorporate by
reference GISB Standards 1.3.2(v), l.3.2(vi) and 1.2.8 through 1.2.12.
With respect to item (iii) Eastern Shore revised Sheet Nos. 155A and
155B, respectively, to include bumping notice procedures consistent
with those in its OFO provisions. In regard to item (iv) above, waiver
of ``non-critical'' penalties, Eastern Shore requested an additional
fifteen days within which to complete a review of its tariff and
respond to this item.
In a letter order issued on February 9 Order, the Commission found
that Eastern Shore's Substitute Third Revised Sheet No. 160A
incorporated by reference Version 1.3 of GISB Standards 1.3.2 (v),
1.3.2 (vi), and 1.2.8 through 1.2.12. However, this tariff sheet also
deleted GISB Standard 1.3.23 of Version 1.2 and left in effect both
Version 1.2 and 1.3 of GISB Standard 1.3.32. The Commission thus
directed Eastern Shore to file a revised tariff sheet to delete Version
1.2 of GISB Standard 1.3.32, and leave in effect Version 1.2 of GISB
Standard 1.3.23. Second Substitute Revised Tariff Sheet No. 160A is
submitted herewith to comply with the Commission's directive.
Eastern Shore also states that in response to the Commission's
February 9 Order, Eastern Shore has completed a review of its gas
tariff and has identified only one situation where a non-critical daily
penalty would apply to a bumped interruptible shipper, namely Section
22 of the General Terms and Conditions which addresses Unauthorized
Daily Overruns. In the absence of the issuance of an Operational Flow
Order (``OFO''), Eastern Shore would view these daily penalties as non-
critical and would therefore waive any penalties against Buyers whose
scheduled and flowing IT quantities were bumped as a result of firm
intra-day nomination changes. Eastern Shore has made appropriate
revisions on First Revised Sheet No. 162, submitted herewith, to comply
with the Commission's directive.
Eastern Shore states that copies of its filing has been mailed to
all firm customers, interruptible customers, and affected state
commissions.
Any person desiring to protest this filing should file a protest
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E.,
Washington, D.C. 20426, in accordance with Section 385.211 of the
commission's Rules and Regulations. All such protests must be filed as
provided in Section 154.210 of the Commission's Regulations. Protests
will be considered by the Commission
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in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve
to make protestants parties to the proceedings. Copies of this filing
are on file with the Commission and are available for public inspection
in the Public Reference Room. This filing may be viewed on the web at
http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for
assistance).
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4622 Filed 2-24-99; 8:45 am]
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