UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

Electronic Tariff Filings Docket No. RM01-5-000

NOTICE OF POSTING REGARDING FILING PROCEDURES

FOR ELECTRONICALLY FILED TARIFFS

(May 21, 2010)

Take Notice that the attached document “Filing Procedures For Electronically Filed

Tariffs, Rate Schedules And Jurisdictional Agreements” has been posted on the eTariff web

site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/etariff.asp) under Commission Orders and Notices at

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/etariff/com-order.asp.

For further information, please contact Keith Pierce at 202-502-8525 or Andre Goodson

at 202-502-8560, or through email to etariff@ferc.gov

Kimberly D. Bose,

Secretary.

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION

Electronic Tariff Filings Docket No. RM01-5-000

FILING PROCEDURES FOR

ELECTRONICALLY FILED TARIFFS, RATE SCHEDULES AND

JURISDICTIONAL AGREEMENTS

In Order No. 714,

1 the Commission adopted regulations requiring that, starting April 1,

2010, and for a transition period through September 30, 2010, all tariffs, rate schedules, and

jurisdictional agreements, and revisions to such documents, filed with the Commission must be

filed electronically according to a format provided in the Implementation Guide.

2 Based on

issues that have arisen on some of the baseline tariff filings, and inquiries, this notice describes

procedures for making electronic tariff filings.

3 Electronic tariff filings that do not comply

with these requirements are subject to rejection.

• Once a Baseline Tariff Filing Has Been Made, All Tariff Filings Must be

Made Electronically Pursuant to the Order No. 714 Guidelines

Once a company makes its baseline tariff filing in compliance with Order No. 714, the

company must make all subsequent filings of tariffs, rate schedules, and jurisdictional

agreements in the Order No. 714 baseline tariff filing format. As provided in Order No. 714,

this requirement is not limited to tariffs or to modifications of the baseline tariff filing, but

encompasses all the company’s other tariffs, rate schedules, and jurisdictional agreements, and

all filings revising, withdrawing, or otherwise affecting such documents or the effective dates

of such provisions. For example, natural gas negotiated rate agreements and non-conforming

service agreements, electric rate schedules, transmission, power sale, and ancillary service

agreements, interconnection agreements, and all other jurisdictional agreements are covered by

this requirement. As described below, this requirement also applies to tariff filings related to

periods earlier than the baseline filing. Once the Office of the Secretary accepts a company’s

baseline tariff filing for processing, the company should not make any further tariff related

1 Electronic Tariff Filings, Order No. 714, FERC Stats. & Regs. ¶ 31,276 (2008).

2 The data elements and communication protocol are described in the Implementation

Guide for Electronic Filing of Parts 35, 154, 284, 300, and 341 Tariff Filing (Implementation

Guide), available at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/etariff/implementation-guide.pdf.

3 As indicated in Order No. 714, this phrase is intended to encompass rate schedule and

jurisdictional agreement filings as well. Order No. 714, at P 13 n.11.

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filings on paper or electronically in a format that does not comply with the electronic filing

format required by Order No. 714.

• Required Tariff Documents To Be Included With An Electronic Tariff

Filing

As part of an electronic tariff filing, companies must include as tariff records 1) a copy

of the proposed tariff provision, and 2) the plain text of the tariff provision. In addition as

attachments, companies must include 3) a clean copy of the tariff provision and 4) the marked

text of the provision (when required).

• Electronic Tariff Filings for Periods Earlier than the Baseline Filing

The electronic tariff software will not accept electronic tariff filings with tariff records

that have a proposed effective date earlier than the effective date associated with the tariff

identification number for the baseline filing. Companies may have outstanding compliance

obligations or rates for prior, locked-in periods that need to be filed with the Commission or

may need to propose changes to parts of a company’s tariffs that were not part of the baseline

tariff filing. Such filings should be made in the following manner:

o The compliance or other provision applicable to the period after the baseline

tariff filing has been accepted by the Secretary for processing must be made in

the electronic tariff filing format required by Order No. 714.

o Tariff provisions governing periods earlier than the baseline filing must be

included either as part of the transmittal letter or as a separate attachment, unless

the company and its customers have waived the need to file tariff provisions for

the earlier periods. 

As an example, if a company with a baseline tariff effective April 15, 2010 has an outstanding

compliance filing with an effective date of January 1, 2010 that the Commission accepts, the

company must file the compliance tariff provisions as tariff records in accordance with the

electronic file format of Order No. 714 with an effective date of April 15, 2010. The company

also should file the tariff provisions with a January 1, 2010 effective date either as part of the

transmittal letter or as a separate attachment.

• FASTR Requirements for Natural Gas Pipelines

FASTR will be retired after the baseline tariff filings have been made and the current

FASTR configuration for each company as of September 30, 2010 will be added to the

Commission’s database as historical records. Once a baseline tariff filing has been made,

pipelines are no longer required to submit records in FASTR format. However, companies that

wish to update their FASTR records for past periods may submit an electronic version in the

FASTR ASCII file format as an attachment.

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