[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 164 (Tuesday, August 25, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45237-45238]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-22784]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP97-126-007]


Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P.; Notice of Proposed 
Changes in FERC Gas Tariff

August 19, 1998.
    Take notice that on August 13, 1998, Iroquois Gas Transmission 
System, L.P. (Iroquois), tendered for filing the following revised 
tariff sheets to its FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume No. 1:

Second Substitute Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 4
Substitute Sixteenth Revised Sheet No. 4
Substitute Seventeenth Revised Sheet No. 4
Second Substitute Eighteenth Revised Sheet No. 4

    Iroquois states that the instant filing would permit Iroquois to: 
(1) reinstate in rates certain legal defense costs that were improperly 
removed on a summary basis from Iroquois' rates pursuant to the 
Commission's December 31, 1996 order in this proceeding; and (2) 
surcharge customers (with interest) to put Iroquois in the position it 
would have been in had the Commission not committed the legal error of 
summarily removing such costs. Iroquois states that the summary removal 
of the legal costs is now invalid in light of the July 21, 1998 
decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of 
Columbia Circuit in Iroquois Gas Transmission System, L.P. v. FERC, No 
97-126 and 97-1533. Iroquois requests that the instant filing be made 
effective on the same date that the Commission accepts Iroquois' 
concurrently submitted rate reduction filing in compliance with the 
Commission's July 29, 1998 order in this docket.
    Iroquois states that copies of its filing were served on all 
jurisdictional customers and interested state commissions.
    Any person desiring to protest said filing should file a protest 
with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE 
Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Sections 385.214 and 385.211 
of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedures. All such protests 
must be

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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.
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-22784 Filed 8-24-98; 8:45 am]
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