[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49127-49128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23839]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RM96-1-000]
Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas
Pipelines; Notice Clarifying Procedures for Filing of Pro Forma Tariff
Sheets
September 12, 1996.
The Commission's July 17, 1996 order in this docket,\1\ requires
pipelines to file pro forma tariff sheets to comply with the business
practice standards adopted by the Commission. This notice clarifies the
procedures pipelines should follow in making the pro forma filings.
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\1\ Standards For Business Practices Of Interstate Natural Gas
Pipelines, order No. 587, 61 FR 39053 (Jul. 26, 1996), III FERC.
Stats. & Regs. Regulations Preambles Sec. 31,039 (Jul. 17, 1996).
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To reduce the burden required to convert the pro forma tariff
sheets to final sheets, the pro forma sheets should be filed as if
they are proposed revisions of sheets in the existing tariff volume
(with changes identified as provided in Section 154.201 of the
Commission's regulations) with the words ``Pro Forma'' before the
volume name, e.g., Fourth Revised Sheet No. 150, FERC Gas Tariff, Pro
Forma Third Revised Volume No. 1. For the electronically filed tariff
sheets, ``Pro Forma'' should be inserted at the beginning of the name
field (VolumeID) in the Tariff Volume Record, i.e., the TF02 record.
When the pipeline files the final tariff sheets, it need only remove
the phrase pro forma for any unchanged sheets.
In addition, Section 154.7 of the Commission's regulations requires
pipelines to include in their filing a statement of the nature, the
reasons, and the basis of the filing that includes a detailed
explanation of the need for each tariff change. To ease the processing
of these filings by the Commission and other parties, pipelines should
fulfill this requirement by including a table showing the Gas Industry
Standards Board (GISB) standard, the complying pro forma tariff
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sheet number, and an explanatory statement, if necessary, describing
any reasons for deviations from or changes to each GISB standard.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-23839 Filed 9-17-96; 8:45 am]
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