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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RP94-293-000]

 

Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.; Proposed Changes in FERC 
Gas Tariff

June 21, 1994.
    Take notice that on June 15, 1994, Granite State Gas Transmission, 
Inc. (Granite State) tendered for filing with the Commission the 
original and revised tariff sheets listed below in its FERC Gas Tariff, 
Second Revised Volume No. 1, containing changes in rates and other 
tariff provisions for effectiveness on July 1, 1994:

Third Revised Sheet No. 20
Original Sheet No. 35
Original Sheet Nos. 36-99

    According to Granite State, its filing is a limited Section 4 
filing to direct bill its former bundled sales customers, Bay State Gas 
Company (Bay State) and Northern Utilities, Inc. (Northern Utilities) 
for unreimbursed transportation charges paid to upstream pipeline 
transporters prior to the effectiveness of its restructured operations 
on November 1, 1993. Granite State further states that, prior to 
restructuring, it had assembled a system supply of natural gas to 
provide its sales services which included purchases of Canadian gas 
from Boundary Gas, Inc. (Boundary Gas) and Shell Canada, Limited, 
(Shell). It is further stated that Granite State purchased these 
supplies at the U.S.-Canadian border and arranged for transportation 
services on upstream transporters for the delivery of these supplies to 
its market area.
    According to Granite State it was authorized to pass through the 
upstream transportation charges in a Transportation Cost Adjustment 
added to its sales rates during the period prior to the commencement of 
its restructured operations. The Transportation Cost Adjustment was 
approved by the Commission in Boundary Gas, Inc., et al., 26 FERC 
61,114 (1984) and initially reflected only the transportation charges 
incurred under Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company's Rate Schedule CGT-NE 
for the transportation of Granite State's Boundary Gas purchases to its 
market area. Later, according to Granite State, the transportation 
charges incurred for the delivery of its Shell purchases over the 
combined facilities of Iroquois Gas Transmission System (Rate Schedule 
RTS-1), Tennessee (Rate Schedule NET-NE) and Algonquin Gas Transmission 
Company (Rate Schedule AFT-2) were included in the derivation of the 
Transportation Cost Adjustment.
    According to Granite State, the Transportation Cost Adjustment was 
essentially a tracking mechanism; however, revisions in the Adjustment 
often lagged changes in the upstream transporters rates. Granite State 
further states that it has made a complete review of the transportation 
charges incurred under the upstream pipelines transportation rate 
schedules compared with the reimbursement through the Transportation 
Cost Adjustment for the period from July, 1989, through October 31, 
1993. According to Granite State, during this period it incurred 
$505,080 of unreimbursed demand and commodity transportation charges 
which it proposes to direct bill to Bay State and Northern Utilities, 
as shown on Original Sheet No. 35 in the instant filing.
    Granite State further states that Third Revised Sheet No. 20, an 
Index, and Original Sheet Nos. 36-99, Reserved Sheets, are included for 
the editorial revisions in the tariff necessitated by the addition of 
Original Sheet No. 35.
    According to Granite State, copies of its filing were served upon 
its customers, Bay State and Northern Utilities, and the regulatory 
commissions of the States of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to make any protest with 
reference to said filing should file a motion to intervene or protest 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 825 North Capitol 
Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426 in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 
385.214). All such motions or protests should be filed on or before 
June 28, 1994. 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 proceeding. Any person wishing to 
become a party to the proceeding or to participate as a party in any 
hearing therein must file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules. Copies of this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 94-15459 Filed 6-24-94; 8:45 am]
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