[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11882-11883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6253]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. TM98-3-4-000 and RP98-155-000]
Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.; Notice of Proposed Changes
in FERC Gas Tariff
March 5, 1998.
Take notice that on March 2, 1998, Granite State Gas Transmission,
Inc. (Granite State), tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas
Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, the following revised tariff sheets
listed below for effectiveness on April 1, 1998:
Eleventh Revised Sheet No. 21
Twelfth Revised Sheet No. 22
First Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334
According to Granite State, the foregoing revised tariff sheets
comprise the quarterly adjustment in its Power Cost Adjustment (PCA),
surcharge, a tracking mechanism to pass through to Granite State's firm
transportation customers certain electric power costs for which it is
obligated to reimburse Portland Pipe Line Corporation under the terms
of a lease of a pipeline. Granite State further states that the
foregoing revised tariff sheets include a revision in the
reconciliation procedure in the PCA tariff provision for past over and
under collections of electric power costs billed Granite State by
Portland Pipe Line. However, in the event that the Commission does not
accept the foregoing tariff sheets, Granite State has submitted the
alternate revised tariff sheets below for effectiveness on April 1,
1998:
Alternate Eleventh Revised Sheet No. 21
Alternate Twelfth Revised Sheet No. 22
According to Granite State, the PCA surcharge tariff provision was
accepted by the Commission in a filing in Docket No. RP97-300-000 and
approved as part of the settlement of Granite State's most recent rate
proceeding in Docket No. RP97-8-000. Granite State further states that
it proposes to change the reconciliation procedure in the tariff
provision to a quarterly sequence, beginning October 1, 1998, instead
of semi-annual sequence, each January and July. Granite State says that
it has had one year's experience with the present reconciliation
procedure and the semi-annual reconciliations result in erratic swings
in the PCA surcharge; it states that quarterly reconciliations of past
over and under collections for the reimbursement power costs due
Portland Pipe Line will result in surcharges that are more reflective
of
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actually incurred expenses for the power costs with less erratic swings
from quarter to quarter.
Granite State states that its preference is for acceptance of the
PCA surcharge for the quarter beginning April 1, 1998 derived using the
change in reconciliation procedure proposed in its filing but, in the
event that the Commission does not accept the change, Granite State has
filed alternate revised tariff sheets on which the quarterly surcharge
has been derived without any change in the reconciliation procedure.
Granite State further states that copies of its filing have been
served on its firm transportation customers and on the regulatory
agencies for the States of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said filing should
file a motion to intervene or protest with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in
accordance with Sections 385.211 and 385.214 of the Commission's Rules
and Regulations. All such motions or protests should be filed in
accordance with Section 154.210 of the Commission's Regulations.
Protests will be considered by the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will not serve to make Protestants
parties to the proceeding. Any person wishing to become a party must
file a motion to intervene. Copies of this filing are on file with the
Commission and are available for public inspection.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6253 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
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