[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 68 (Thursday, April 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17398-17399]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-9316]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No RP97-8-009]


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

April 3, 1998.
    Take notice that on March 31, 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 tariff sheets to 
become effective May 1, 1998:

Twelfth Revised Sheet No. 21
Thirteenth Revised Sheet No. 22
Tenth Revised Sheet No. 23

    According to Granite State, the foregoing tariff sheets are 
tendered in compliance with the provisions of the settlement in Granite 
State's rate proceeding in Docket No. RP97-8-000, approved by the 
Commission in an order issued October 20, 1997. (18 FERC para. 61,065)
    Granite State further states that the settlement provided for Phase 
I and Phase II Base Tariff Rates. Granite State asserts that the Phase 
I settlement rates included recovery of costs related to a lease of a 
pipeline facility, operated under a limited-term certificate and both 
the lease and the certificate were scheduled to expire April 30, 1998. 
The lower Phase II settlement rates, reflected in the tariff sheets 
listed above were designed to become effective May 1, 1998 after the 
pipeline lease expired.
    Granite State further states that copies of its filing have been 
served on its firm transportation customers, Bay State Gas Company and 
Northern Utilities, Inc., and on the regulatory agencies of the states 
of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    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 Section 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

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be taken, but will not serve to make protestants parties to the 
proceedings.
    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. 98-9316 Filed 4-8-98; 8:45 am]
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