Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Platte Pipe Line Company; Notice of Alternative Dispute Resolution Process

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 121 (Thursday, June 24, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 33856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-16045]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. OR99-4-000]


Sinclair Oil Corporation v. Platte Pipe Line Company; Notice of 
Alternative Dispute Resolution Process

June 18, 1999.
    Take notice that pursuant to the Commission's ``Order on 
Complaint'' issued on June 1, 1999 in this proceeding, 87 FERC para. 
61,259 (1999), the parties have met with the Director of the 
Commission's Office of Dispute Resolution Services (Director), and have 
agreed upon an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) process to resolve 
certain issues raised in the complaint of Sinclair Oil Corporation 
(Sinclair).
    A principal goal of the ADR process is to determine whether, and 
how, to address the impact on Platte Pipe Line Company's (Platte's) 
common stream shippers who tender crude petroleum that is not mixed 
with natural gasoline, from receiving deliveries containing crude 
petroleum tendered by shippers that have mixed natural gasoline into 
their crude petroleum.
    The parties have agreed upon a mediation process and will work 
toward resolution of this issue through mediation efforts commencing in 
June 1999 and concluding by the end of August 1999. Pursuant to the 
parties' agreement, Judge William J. Cowan has been appointed mediator.
    At the conclusion of the ADR process, if successful, the parties 
will submit a settlement incorporating revised rules and regulations in 
pro forma tariff sheets that would, upon Commission approval, be 
submitted to the Commission as compliance filings, with general 
application on Platte's system.
    Any person having both an interest in participating in the ADR 
process and an interest in Platte's rules and regulations within the 
standards established by 18 CFR 343.2(b) must notify the Director and 
other parties, in writing, no later than July 2, 1999 in order to 
participate.\1\ Persons joining the ADR process will do so subject to 
the procedures already established by the mediator and this order.
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    \1\ The Director is Richard L. Miles, who can be contacted at 
(202) 208-0702.
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David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-16045 Filed 6-23-99; 8:45 am]
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