[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 182 (Wednesday, September 18, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49127-49128]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-23839]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RM96-1-000]


Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas 
Pipelines; Notice Clarifying Procedures for Filing of Pro Forma Tariff 
Sheets

September 12, 1996.
    The Commission's July 17, 1996 order in this docket,\1\ requires 
pipelines to file pro forma tariff sheets to comply with the business 
practice standards adopted by the Commission. This notice clarifies the 
procedures pipelines should follow in making the pro forma filings.
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    \1\ Standards For Business Practices Of Interstate Natural Gas 
Pipelines, order No. 587, 61 FR 39053 (Jul. 26, 1996), III FERC. 
Stats. & Regs. Regulations Preambles Sec. 31,039 (Jul. 17, 1996).
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    To reduce the burden required to convert the pro forma tariff 
sheets to final sheets, the pro forma  sheets should be filed as if 
they are proposed revisions of sheets in the existing tariff volume 
(with changes identified as provided in Section 154.201 of the 
Commission's regulations) with the words ``Pro Forma'' before the 
volume name, e.g., Fourth Revised Sheet No. 150, FERC Gas Tariff, Pro 
Forma Third Revised Volume No. 1. For the electronically filed tariff 
sheets, ``Pro Forma'' should be inserted at the beginning of the name 
field (VolumeID) in the Tariff Volume Record, i.e., the TF02 record. 
When the pipeline files the final tariff sheets, it need only remove 
the phrase pro forma  for any unchanged sheets.
    In addition, Section 154.7 of the Commission's regulations requires 
pipelines to include in their filing a statement of the nature, the 
reasons, and the basis of the filing that includes a detailed 
explanation of the need for each tariff change. To ease the processing 
of these filings by the Commission and other parties, pipelines should 
fulfill this requirement by including a table showing the Gas Industry 
Standards Board (GISB) standard, the complying pro forma tariff

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sheet number, and an explanatory statement, if necessary, describing 
any reasons for deviations from or changes to each GISB standard.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-23839 Filed 9-17-96; 8:45 am]
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