[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 47 (Wednesday, March 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11882-11883]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-6253]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. TM98-3-4-000 and RP98-155-000]


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

March 5, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 2, 1998, Granite State Gas Transmission, 
Inc. (Granite State), tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas 
Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, the following revised tariff sheets 
listed below for effectiveness on April 1, 1998:

Eleventh Revised Sheet No. 21
Twelfth Revised Sheet No. 22
First Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334

    According to Granite State, the foregoing revised tariff sheets 
comprise the quarterly adjustment in its Power Cost Adjustment (PCA), 
surcharge, a tracking mechanism to pass through to Granite State's firm 
transportation customers certain electric power costs for which it is 
obligated to reimburse Portland Pipe Line Corporation under the terms 
of a lease of a pipeline. Granite State further states that the 
foregoing revised tariff sheets include a revision in the 
reconciliation procedure in the PCA tariff provision for past over and 
under collections of electric power costs billed Granite State by 
Portland Pipe Line. However, in the event that the Commission does not 
accept the foregoing tariff sheets, Granite State has submitted the 
alternate revised tariff sheets below for effectiveness on April 1, 
1998:

Alternate Eleventh Revised Sheet No. 21
Alternate Twelfth Revised Sheet No. 22

    According to Granite State, the PCA surcharge tariff provision was 
accepted by the Commission in a filing in Docket No. RP97-300-000 and 
approved as part of the settlement of Granite State's most recent rate 
proceeding in Docket No. RP97-8-000. Granite State further states that 
it proposes to change the reconciliation procedure in the tariff 
provision to a quarterly sequence, beginning October 1, 1998, instead 
of semi-annual sequence, each January and July. Granite State says that 
it has had one year's experience with the present reconciliation 
procedure and the semi-annual reconciliations result in erratic swings 
in the PCA surcharge; it states that quarterly reconciliations of past 
over and under collections for the reimbursement power costs due 
Portland Pipe Line will result in surcharges that are more reflective 
of

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actually incurred expenses for the power costs with less erratic swings 
from quarter to quarter.
    Granite State states that its preference is for acceptance of the 
PCA surcharge for the quarter beginning April 1, 1998 derived using the 
change in reconciliation procedure proposed in its filing but, in the 
event that the Commission does not accept the change, Granite State has 
filed alternate revised tariff sheets on which the quarterly surcharge 
has been derived without any change in the reconciliation procedure.
    Granite State further states that copies of its filing have been 
served on its firm transportation customers and on the regulatory 
agencies for the States of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    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, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in 
accordance with Sections 385.211 and 385.214 of the Commission's Rules 
and Regulations. All such motions or protests should be filed in 
accordance with 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-6253 Filed 3-10-98; 8:45 am]
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