CNG Transmission Corporation; Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC Gas Tariff

[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 198 (Wednesday, October 14, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55103-55104]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27456]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. TM99-1-22-000]


CNG Transmission Corporation; Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC 
Gas Tariff

October 7, 1998.
    Take notice that on October 1, 1998, CNG Transmission Corporation 
(CNG), tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Second 
Revised Volume No. 1, the following tariff sheets:

Seventeenth Revised Sheet No. 31
Forty First Revised Sheet No. 32
Forty First Revised Sheet No. 33
Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 34
Eighteenth Revised Sheet No. 35

    CNG requests an effective date of November 1, 1998, for its 
proposed tariff sheets.
    CNG states that the purpose of this filing is to update CNG's 
effective Transportation Cost Rate Adjustment (TCRA), through the 
annual adjustment mechanism described in Section 15 of the General 
Terms and Conditions of CNG's Tariff and to update CNG's effective 
Electric Power Cost Adjustment (EPCA) as described in Section 17 of the 
General Terms and Conditions of CNG's Tariff.
    CNG's surcharge incorporates the balance in its Unrecovered Fuel 
Cost Reimbursement Subaccount, as set forth in Section 16.5 of the 
General Terms, as well as the balance in its Unrecovered EPC 
Reimbursement Subaccount, pursuant to Section 17.5 of the General 
Terms.

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    CNG requests the following waivers in the filing:
    (1) Include the projected undercollection level of $8.7 million in 
its current TCRA consistent with the base rate treatment of the Section 
16.4.C costs;
    (2) Consistent with the recovery of the Section 16.4.C amount 
through the reservation component of CNG's rates and consistent with 
the Commission-authorized treatment of CNG's filing in Docket No. TM98-
2-22, CNG requests a waiver of Section 16.5 of the General Terms to 
include these increased costs ($13.2 million) in the reservation 
surcharge portion of its TCRA;
    (3) Consistent with the Commission-authorized treatment of CNG's 
filing in Docket No. TM98-2-22, a waiver of Section 16.5 of the General 
Terms and Conditions in order to recover underrecovered electric fuel 
costs ($0.9 million) on an as-billed basis and;
    (4) A waiver of Section 16.5 of the General Terms and Conditions in 
order to attribute extraordinary underrecovered upstream transportation 
fuel costs ($11.8 million) to the reservation component of its 
transportation rates.
    CNG states that copies of its letter of transmittal and enclosures 
are being mailed to its customers and interested state commissions.
    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 385.214 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 Pubic 
Reference Room.
David P. Boergers.
Secretary,
[FR Doc. 98-27456 Filed 10-13-98; 8:45 am]
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