[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 6 (Wednesday, January 9, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 1211]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-465]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RP95-408-044]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Compliance 
Filing

January 3, 2002.
    Take notice that on December 28, 2001, Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation (Columbia) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas 
Tariff, Second Revised Volume No. 1, the following revised tariff 
sheets bearing a proposed effective date of February 1, 2002:

Fifty-fifth Revised Sheet No. 25
Fifty-fifth Revised Sheet No. 26
Fifty-fifth Revised Sheet No. 27
Forty-eighth Revised Sheet No. 28
Sixth Revised Sheet No. 28B
Seventeenth Revised Sheet No. 29
Twenty-fifth Revised Sheet No. 30A

    Columbia states that this filing is being submitted pursuant to an 
order issued September 15, 1999, by the Commission approving an 
uncontested settlement that resolves environmental cost recovery issues 
in the above-referenced proceeding. Columbia Gas Transmission 
Corporation, 88 FERC 61,217 (1999). The settlement established 
environmental cost recovery through unit components of base rates, all 
as more fully set forth in Article VI of the settlement agreement filed 
April 5, 1999 (Phase II Settlement).
    Columbia is required to file annually a limited NGA Section 4 
filing to adjust its environmental unit components effective February 1 
to recover its environmental costs covered by the Phase II Settlement, 
within agreed-upon ceilings and recovery percentages. For the annual 
period February 1, 2002 through January 31, 2003, the Phase II 
Settlement permits Columbia to collect ``no more than $14 million 
annually in Main Program Costs'', and ``no more than $3 million 
annually in Storage Well Program Costs.'' per Article VI(B) of the 
Phase II Settlement. The instant filing satisfies that requirement. It 
provides for the February 1, 2002 effectiveness of revised unit 
components designed to collect $12 million in Main Program Costs and to 
flowback an overrecovery of $ 0.5 million of Storage Well Program 
Costs.
    Columbia states that copies of its filing have been mailed to all 
firm customers, interruptible customers and affected 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 section 385.211 of the 
Commission's Rules and Regulations. All such 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. Copies of this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection. This filing may 
also be viewed on the web at http://www.ferc.gov using the ``RIMS'' 
link, select ``Docket#'' and follow the instructions (call 202-208-2222 
for assistance). Comments, protests and interventions may be filed 
electronically via the Internet in lieu of paper. See, 18 CFR 
385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions on the Commission's web site 
under the ``e-Filing'' link.

Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 02-465 Filed 1-8-02; 8:45 am]
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