[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 112 (Friday, June 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31565-31566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-14810]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-328-000]
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Proposed Changes In FERC Gas
Tariff
June 7, 1999.
Take notice that on June 2, 1999, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company
(Tennessee), pursuant to Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act and Part 154
of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's (Commission) Regulations,
tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Fifth Revised
Volume No. 1, Original and revised tariff sheets pertaining to Rate
Schedule NET 384. Tennessee requests that the tariff sheets be made
effective July 1, 1999.
Tennessee states that the purpose of the tariff filing is to (1)
revise Rate Schedule NET 284 to provide Rate Schedule NET shippers with
an additional opportunity to convert to Part 284 service under Rate
Schedule NET 284, (2) submit two pro forma service agreements under
Rate Schedule NET 284, (3) provide for Authorized Overruns (AO) under
Rate Schedule NET 284, (4) redefine the rights that NET 284 shippers
have to use secondary receipt and delivery points.
In particular, Tennessee proposes to revise Rate Schedule NET 284
to establish a window period in which Rate Schedule NET shippers will
have the opportunity to convert to Part 284 service under Rate Schedule
NET 284. Specifically, Tennessee proposes to revise Section 1(b) of
Rate Schedule NET 284 to permit NET shippers to convert to NET 284
service by providing notice of their election to Tennessee during the
period July 1-December 1, 1999. Tennessee states that the conversions
will be carried out under the newly modified terms of section 157.217
of the Commission's regulations.
Tennessee also proposes to include a provision for Authorized
Overruns under Rate Schedule NET 284. The AO tariff language will be
comparable to the AO provisions under Tennessee's other firm
transportation Rate Schedules, i.e., Rate Schedules FT-A, FT-G, FT-GS.
In particular, NET 284 shippers will be permitted to nominate
Authorized Overruns only upon Tennessee's advance approval through the
EBB. The per unit rate for Authorized Overruns will be the volumetric
derivative of the maximum applicable charge under the shipper's
contract and the NET 284 Rate Schedule designed on a 100 percent load
factor basis. Authorized Overruns will have the same scheduling and
allocation/curtailment priority as Authorized Overruns under other firm
transportation services, as set forth in Article III, Section 5 and 6
of the General Terms and Conditions of Tennessee's FERC Gas Tariff.
Tennessee's proposal will not result in any degradation of service to
firm shippers because AO quantities have a lower priority than firm
primary, secondary and tertiary service.
Tenesseee is revising the NET 284 Rate Schedule to provide that a
NET 284 shipper's use of secondary receipt and delivery points will be
limited to those points located in the NET 284 rate zone segment(s) in
which the shipper has reserved capacity. Currently, NET 284 shippers
have secondary rights to all points on [Tennessee's] system within
Shipper's transportation Path. Under the General Terms and Conditions
of Tennessee's FERC Gas Tariff, Transportation Path is defined as the
zone of primary receipt through the zone of primary delivery. However,
unlike Rate Schedule FT-A shippers, NET 284 shippers do not reserve
capacity by zones; they reserve capacity by rate zone segments.
Moreover, the NET 284 rate zone segments do not correspond to zone on
the Tennessee
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system. Under the existing tariff, a NET 284 shipper which reserves
capacity in a rate zone segment which includes only a portion of a
zone, has secondary rights to all points in the zone, including points
which are not located in the rate zone segment covered by the shipper's
reservation charges. In order to remedy this situation, Tennessee
proposes to revise Rate Schedule NET 284 to provide that NET 284
shippers will have secondary rights only to those points located in NET
rate zone segment(s) in which they have reserved capacity. Tennessee
states that the proposed tariff revision is consistent with the
Commission's general policy that shippers should only be able to access
secondary receipt and delivery points on portions of the system which
are covered by their reservation charges.
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said filing should
file a motion to intervene or a protest with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426,
in accordance with Sections 385.214 or 385.211 of the Commission's
Rules and Regulations. All such motions or protests must 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 proceedings. 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 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).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-14810 Filed 6-10-99; 8:45 am]
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