[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 134 (Thursday, July 11, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36555-36556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-17621]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RP96-291-000]


Mid Louisiana Gas Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in FERC Gas 
Tariff

July 5, 1996.
    Take notice that on June 28, 1996, Mid Louisiana Gas Company 
(``MIDLA'') tendered for filing certain tariff sheets to be included in 
its FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1. The proposed changes 
would decrease

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jurisdictional revenues by approximately $5.7 million annually based 
upon the twelve month period ended February 29, 1996, as adjusted. 
MIDLA proposes that the revised tariff sheets, together with the rates 
and conditions of service identified in such sheets, be made effective 
contemporaneously with the effective date of a Commission order 
approving an abandonment application filed by MIDLA in Docket No. CP95-
730-000.
    MIDLA states that the principal cause of the revenue decrease is 
the elimination from operation and maintenance expenses of the costs 
related to storage and transportation services paid to Transcontinental 
Gas Pipe Line Corporation (``Transco''). MIDLA requested the authority 
to abandon theses services in its abandonment application in Docket No. 
CP95-730. Additional purposes of the filing of the Revised Tariff 
Sheets are to revise and restate the character of MIDLA's Rate Schedule 
NNS to reflect the conversion from the existing combined storage and 
transportation function to a No-Notice Service that is predicated on a 
transportation and receipt point commodity purchase strategy as well as 
to eliminate Rate Schedule(s) SMS, FSS, and ISS with all of their 
related references as well as several general clerical and 
informational modifications as described in the Statement of Nature, 
Reasons and Basis.
    MIDLA states that since its last rate case filing, the Commission 
approved, in orders in MIDLA's restructuring proceeding under Order No. 
636 (Docket No. RS92-20), the basic rate design and cost allocation 
methods which this filing reflects. Specifically, the instant filing 
reflects the continuation of the Straight-Fixed Variable (SFV) rate 
design methodology and the continuation of IT rates designed on a 100% 
load factor.
    Pursuant to Section 154.7(a)(7) of the Commission's Regulations, 
MIDLA respectfully requests waiver of 154.207, notice requirements, as 
well as any other requirement of the Regulations in order to permit the 
tendered tariff sheets to become effective September 1, 1996, as 
submitted.
    MIDLA states that, in compliance with Section 154.208, paper copies 
of the Revised Tariff Pages and this filing are being served upon its 
jurisdictional customers and appropriate state regulatory agencies.
    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, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20426, 
in accordance with 385.214 and 385.211 of the Commission's Rules and 
Regulations. All such motions or protests must be filed as provided in 
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 
proceeding. 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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-17621 Filed 7-11-96; 8:45 am]
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