[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 37 (Thursday, February 25, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9326-9327]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-4622]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-83-002]


Eastern Shore Natural Gas Company; Notice of Proposed Changes in 
FERC Gas Tariff

February 19, 1999.
    Take notice that on February 16, 1999, Eastern Shore Natural Gas 
Company (Eastern Shore) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas 
Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1), the following revised tariff 
sheets, with a proposed effective date of November 2, 1998:

2nd Sub 3rd Rev. Sheet No. 160A
First Revised Sheet No. 162
Original Sheet No. 162A

    Eastern Shore states that the filing is being made in compliance 
with the Commission's letter order issued on February 9, 1999 (February 
9 Order) in the referenced docket
    Eastern Shore states that on October 9, 1998, it submitted a filing 
to comply with the Commission's Order No. 587-H issued July 15, 1998 in 
Docket No. RM96-1-008 (the Order). The Order required pipelines to 
adopt Version 1.3 of the Gas Industry Standards Board (GISB) standards 
dealing with intraday nominations and nomination and scheduling 
procedures. In addition, the Order established November 2, 1998 as the 
date for implementation of the regulations regarding intraday 
nominations.
    Eastern Shore states that the commission, in a letter order issued 
on November 6, 1998, found that, although Eastern Shore had generally 
complied with Order No. 587-H, it (i) incorrectly changed the GISB 
version number from 1.2 to 1.3 for several GISB Standards previous 
incorporated into Eastern Shore's tariff, (ii) failed to incorporate 
verbatim or by reference GISB Standards 1.3.2(v), 1.3.2(vi), and 1.2.8 
through 1.2.12, (iii) filed to include bumping notice procedures 
consistent with those in its OFO provisions, and (iv) did not address 
the issue of waiver of daily ``non-critical'' penalties.
    Eastern Shore states that on December 1, 1998, it submitted a 
filing to comply with items (i), (ii) and (iii) above. With respect to 
item (i) above, no action was necessary as the Commission rejected such 
proposed tariff sheets as moot. With respect to item (ii) Eastern Shore 
added appropriate language to Sheet No. 160A to incorporate by 
reference GISB Standards 1.3.2(v), l.3.2(vi) and 1.2.8 through 1.2.12. 
With respect to item (iii) Eastern Shore revised Sheet Nos. 155A and 
155B, respectively, to include bumping notice procedures consistent 
with those in its OFO provisions. In regard to item (iv) above, waiver 
of ``non-critical'' penalties, Eastern Shore requested an additional 
fifteen days within which to complete a review of its tariff and 
respond to this item.
    In a letter order issued on February 9 Order, the Commission found 
that Eastern Shore's Substitute Third Revised Sheet No. 160A 
incorporated by reference Version 1.3 of GISB Standards 1.3.2 (v), 
1.3.2 (vi), and 1.2.8 through 1.2.12. However, this tariff sheet also 
deleted GISB Standard 1.3.23 of Version 1.2 and left in effect both 
Version 1.2 and 1.3 of GISB Standard 1.3.32. The Commission thus 
directed Eastern Shore to file a revised tariff sheet to delete Version 
1.2 of GISB Standard 1.3.32, and leave in effect Version 1.2 of GISB 
Standard 1.3.23. Second Substitute Revised Tariff Sheet No. 160A is 
submitted herewith to comply with the Commission's directive.
    Eastern Shore also states that in response to the Commission's 
February 9 Order, Eastern Shore has completed a review of its gas 
tariff and has identified only one situation where a non-critical daily 
penalty would apply to a bumped interruptible shipper, namely Section 
22 of the General Terms and Conditions which addresses Unauthorized 
Daily Overruns. In the absence of the issuance of an Operational Flow 
Order (``OFO''), Eastern Shore would view these daily penalties as non-
critical and would therefore waive any penalties against Buyers whose 
scheduled and flowing IT quantities were bumped as a result of firm 
intra-day nomination changes. Eastern Shore has made appropriate 
revisions on First Revised Sheet No. 162, submitted herewith, to comply 
with the Commission's directive.
    Eastern Shore states that copies of its filing has been mailed to 
all firm customers, interruptible customers, and affected state 
commissions.
    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

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in determining the appropriate action to 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. This filing may be viewed on the web at 
http://www.ferc.fed.us/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for 
assistance).
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-4622 Filed 2-24-99; 8:45 am]
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