[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 190 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51095-51096]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-24902]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[Docket No. RP96-199-003]


Mississippi River Transmission Corporation; Notice of Proposed 
Changes In FERC Gas Tariff

September 24, 1996.
    Take notice that on September 17, 1996, Mississippi River 
Transmission Corporation (MRT) moved into effect certain rates and 
revised tariff sheets to its FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 
1.
    MRT states that it has moved to place into effect as of October 1, 
1996 the rates set forth in tariff sheets identified as MRT's Primary 
Tariff Sheets. Alternatively, MRT has moved to place into effect 
Alternative Tariff Sheets which, should the Commission not accept MRT's 
Primary Tariff Sheets, MRT requests be permitted to go into effect 
October 1, 1996.
    MRT states that both its Primary and Alternate Tariff Sheets 
reflect the rate mitigation the Commission ordered MRT to reinstate for 
two firm transportation customers and the elimination of adjustments 
initially proposed by MRT, but rejected by the Commission, intended to 
reflect MRT's projections of future firm contract demand reductions and 
the availability of storage capacity. Mississippi River Transmission 
Corp. 75 FERC para.61,095 (1996) and 75 FERC para.61,317 (1996). 
However, MRT's Primary Tariff Sheets

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include MRT's currently effective gathering rates, as approved by the 
Commission in MRT's prior Section 4 rate proceeding, since the 
commission has acted on only one of MRT's pending requests to abandon 
its gathering facilities. MRT further states that its Alternate Tariff 
Sheets exclude all gathering charges but are being submitted with the 
qualification that if the Commission elects to permit the Alternate 
Tariff Sheets to go into effect, then the Commission provide MRT with a 
mechanism that will permit MRT to recover those costs for which MRT is 
currently awaiting abandonment authorization.
    MRT states that a copy of its motion and the accompanying tariff 
sheets have been served on all of its customers, the State Commissions 
of Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois, and all persons on the 
Commission's official service list in Docket No. RP96-199-000.
    Any person desiring to protest this filing should file a protest 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 20426, in accordance with 18 CFR 385.211 of the 
Commission's Rules and Regulations. All such 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. Copies of this filing are on file with the Commission 
and are available for public inspection in the Public Reference Room.
Lois D. Cashell,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 96-24902 Filed 9-27-96; 8:45 am]
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