[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 26 (Monday, February 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6549-6550]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3149]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP98-123-000]


Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Proposed Changes In FERC Gas Tariff

February 3, 1998.
    Take notice that on January 29, 1998, Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans) 
tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised 
Volume No. 1, revised tariff sheets reflecting a rate change from 
currently effective rates and other changes in its tariff to the 
limited extent necessary to: (1) Implement the recovery of the stranded 
gathering reservation surcharge from all firm transportation customers 
under Rate Schedules NOFT, FTS, and STS-1 and to adjust the level of 
the surcharge based on the level of billing determinants for all firm 
transportation services; and (2) incorporate revised tariff language 
which gives transportation customers under Rate Schedule STS-1 the 
right to release their capacity through Equitrans' capacity release 
program and to receive service form all receipt, delivery, and pooling 
points on the Equitrans system on a secondary basis.
    Equitrans states that in deriving the proposed stranded gathering 
surcharge gathering costs and the same reservation billing determinants 
and usage determinants which were reflected in Equitrans' RP97-346 rate 
filing. The only change which Equitrans states it proposes is the 
recalculation of the surcharge to eliminate storage billing 
determinants and include Section 7(c) transportation billing 
determinants. Equitrans is proposing a reservation-based gathering 
surcharge for firm transportation.
    Equitrans states that this filing makes no change in the level of 
base tariff rates for any Equitrans' services--which rates are 
currently effective subject to refund and the outcome of a hearing in 
Docket No. RP97-346-000.
    Equitrans requests that this filing be consolidated with its on-
going rate case in Docket No. RP97-346. Equitrans also requests a 
shortened suspension period to permit the proposed level of the 
stranded gathering surcharge to take effect on March 1, 1998.
    Any person desiring to protest this filing should file a motion to 
intervene or protest with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 
First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Sections 
385.214 and 385.211 of the Commission's Rules and Regulations. All such 
motions or protests must be filed in accordance with Section 154.210 of 
the Commission's Rules and 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

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available for public inspection in the Public Reference Room.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-3149 Filed 2-6-98; 8:45 am]
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