[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 56341]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-27227]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP00-17-000]


Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation; Notice of Tariff 
Filing

October 13, 1999.
    Take notice that on October 6, 1999, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line 
Corporation tendered for filing, on a pro forma basis, certain revised 
tariff sheets to its FERC Gas Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, which 
tariff sheets are enumerated in Appendix A attached to the filing. 
Although Transco proposes that the revised tariff sheets be made 
effective upon the in-service date of Transco's new service delivery 
computer system, Transco requests that the Commission act on the filing 
no later than November 15, 1999.
    Transco states that it is submitting the filing pursuant to Section 
4 of the Natural Gas Act (NGA) to propose revisions to Section 42.3 of 
the General Terms and Conditions of Transco's tariff, and Section 2.8 
of Rate Schedule FT, Section 2.4 of Rate Schedule FT-R, Section 2.5 of 
Rate Schedule FTN and Section 2.4 of Rate Schedule FTN-R. Specifically, 
Transco proposes to revise Section 42.3 of the General Terms and 
Conditions to provide that where a shipper elects to release a segment 
of its firm capacity entitlement in a zone and to retain a segment of 
its firm capacity entitlement in that zone, the sum of the scheduled 
quantities within that zone by that Releasing Shipper and any 
Replacement Shipper from or to firm secondary receipt and delivery 
points within any segment of that zone shall be limited to the level of 
the original firm capacity entitlement in that zone from which the 
Releasing Shipper's and the Replacement Shipper's firm capacity 
entitlement was derived. Conforming changes have been made to Section 
2.8 of Rate Schedule FT, Section 2.4 of Rate Schedule FT-R, Section 2.5 
of Rate Schedule FTN and Section 2.4 of Rate Schedule FTN-R, which 
address access to secondary receipt and delivery points within a zone, 
in order to recognize the limitation associated with released firm 
capacity entitlements.
    Transco states that the tariff modifications are necessary in order 
to eliminate a practice by which certain shippers take advantage of the 
current flexibility under Transco's tariff for the purpose of creating 
firm contract rights in a zone that exceed the firm contract 
entitlements of those shippers through segments of capacity on the 
Transco pipeline system. That practice is accomplished through the use 
of segmentation rights granted under Transco's capacity release program 
and the flexible secondary receipt and delivery point rights granted 
under Transco's Rate Schedules FT and FT-R. The result is that shippers 
employing that practice obtain more than the rights to capacity in a 
segment of a zone that they are entitled to through payment of a 
reservation rate for that zone, a result that the Commission recently 
has affirmed exceeds Commission requirements and policy. Transco 
submits that the effect of this practice is to diminish in the value 
that firm capacity holders can receive for released capacity on the 
Transco system.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest said 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/online/rims.htm (call 202-208-2222 for assistance).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-27227 Filed 10-18-99; 8:45 am]
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