Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Proposed Changes In FERC Gas Tariff

[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 
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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