[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31457-31458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15229]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. TM98-4-4-000 and RP98-155-001]
Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.; Notice in Proposed Changes
in FERC Gas Tariff
June 3, 1998.
Take notice that on May 29, 1998, Granite State Gas Transmission,
Inc. (Granite State) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas
Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, the revised tariff sheets below for
effectiveness on July 1, 1998:
Fourteenth Revised Sheet No. 21
Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 22
Substitute First Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334
According to Granite State, the foregoing tariff sheets propose a
revised quarterly Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) surcharge for the third
quarter of 1998, together with a reconciliation factor for prior period
undercollections of reimbursable electric power costs for which Granite
State is charged by Portland Pipe Line Corporation under the provisions
of a lease of a pipeline and which Granite State recovers through the
PCA.
Granite State further states that it filed a quarterly adjustment
under its PCA tariff tracking provision on March 2, 1998 for
effectiveness on April 1, 1998,
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together with a reconciliation for prior period undercollections. It is
said that the proposed reconciliation was rejected in an order issued
April 1, 1998 on the grounds that the reconciliation procedure appeared
to recover reimbursable power costs incurred prior to the date that the
PCA became effective on April 1, 1997.
Granite State says that the April 1, 1998 order established a
Technical Conference in the proceeding which was held May 19, 1998,
during which the Staff made certain recommendations concerning the PCA
tracking procedure and particularly the reconciliation methodology for
undercollections of the electric power costs. According to Granite
State, the revised tariff sheets listed above incorporate Staff
suggested revisions in the PCA procedure to establish separate
surcharge components for the projected electric power costs in each
quarterly filing and a separate surcharge component for the recovery of
uncollected costs in prior periods. Granite State further states that
the foregoing revised tariff sheets and surcharge calculations also
reflect Granite State's understanding of its authorization to collect
prior period undercollections through the reconciliation procedure in
the PCA.
Granite State also states that during the Technical Conference the
Staff disagreed with granite State's interpretation of the
authorization to collect prior period undercollections of the electric
power costs billed by Portland Pipe Line, particularly such costs
incurred prior to April 1, 1997. Granite State has also tendered in
this filing the alternate revised tariff sheets listed below for
effectiveness on July 1, 1998:
Alternate Fourteenth Revised Sheet No. 21
Alternate Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 22
Alternate Substitute Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334
Acccording to Granite State the foregoing alternate revised tariff
sheets reflect in the PCA reconciliation methodology and calculation of
the PCA surcharge the Staff's view of Granite State's authorization to
recover prior period reimbursable electric power costs.
According to Granite State, copies of its filing have been served
on its firm customers, Bay State Gas Company and Northern Utilities,
Inc., and on the regulatory agencies of the states of Maine,
Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this filing should
file a motion to intervene or a protest with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, in
accordance with Sections 385.214 and 385.211 of the Commission's Rules
and Regulations. All such motions or protests must be filed as provided
in 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15229 Filed 6-8-98; 8:45 am]
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