[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55266-55267]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-26442]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-515-000]


Florida Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Tariff Filing

October 5, 1999.
    Take notice that on September 30, 1999, Florida Gas Transmission 
Company (FGT) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Third 
Revised Volume No. 1, the following tariff sheets to become effective 
November 1, 1999:

Seventh Revised Sheet No. 117
First Revised Sheet No. 117.01
Seventh Revised Sheet No. 117A

    FGT states that in the instant filing, FGT is proposing revisions 
to section 10.A.2 of its General Terms and Conditions (GTC), Nomination 
Timeline, to change its Intraday nomination procedures and to make 
minor changes in the organization of this Tariff section. Specifically, 
FGT is proposing revisions to Seventh Revised Sheet No. 117A to change 
its Intraday nomination procedures to provide that Intraday nominations 
that contain a date range of more than one day shall be effective only 
for the next applicable nomination cycle.
    FGT states that FGT's current Intraday nomination procedures 
provide that Intraday nominations which contain a date range of more 
than one day will be processed as an Intraday nomination for the first 
day of the specified effective period, and the nomination for the 
remainder of the date range is processed as a Timely nomination. FGT 
implemented these procedures in compliance with Order No. 587-H (issued 
in Docket No. RM96-1-008 on July 15, 1998), in which the Commission 
adopted the implementation standards promulgated by the Gas Industry 
Standards Board (``GISB'') related to the intraday nomination and 
scheduling procedures and time line (``GISB Intraday Standards''). 
Under the GISB Intraday Standards, pipelines were not required to make 
Intraday nominations applicable to date ranges of more than one day. 
Accordingly, most pipelines did not provide this option and standard 
industry practice is that Intraday nominations are effective only for 
the nomination cycle.
    FGT states that in implementing the GISB Intraday Standards, FGT 
continued to provide shippers the option of submitting Intraday 
nominations containing a date range of more than one day. In doing so, 
FGT did not anticipate that this flexibility would be confusing to 
FGT's shippers and administratively infeasible to FGT. FGT's shippers 
are confused because, under FGT's current Intraday 2 procedures, a 
shipper sending an Intrady 2 nomination with a date range of more than 
one day is treated as also submitting an Evening Cycle Intraday 
nomination for the next day in the rate range. It has been FGT's 
experience that shippers, often unaware that they are affecting their 
timely nomination for the following gas day, are confused when they 
receive their scheduled quantities for the next gas day which have been 
changed.
    Additionally, FGT states that FGT cannot send a Quick Response for 
the changes to subsequent nomination cycles because a Quick Response 
can only be sent once for any nomination received. In order for FGT to 
alert shippers that they are changing their nomination for the 
following gas day, FGT would have to send an unsolicited Quick 
Response, which is not currently possible.

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    FGT states that the revisions proposed herein will make FGT's 
Intraday nomination procedures conform with what has become standard 
industry practice. FGT believes that the proposed changes will 
alleviate confusion regarding FGT's Intraday nomination procedures, 
while not negatively impacting shippers' ability to change nominated 
quantities on FGT's system.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest and filing should 
file a motion to intervene or a protest with the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 20426, in 
accordance with sections 385.214 or 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 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 proceedings. 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 in the Public 
Reference Room. This filing may be viewed on the web at http://
www.ferc.fed.us/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-26442 Filed 10-8-99; 8:45 am]
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