60182 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 10, 2000 / Notices

following matters, as required in Order

No. 637; segmentation and flexible

receipt and delivery points, penalties

and penalty crediting, operational flow

orders, and capacity release.

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 on or before

October 30, 2000. 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).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–25845 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP00–586–000]

Vector Pipeline L.P.; Notice of

Proposed Changes in FERC Gas Tariff

October 3, 2000.

Take notice that on September 29,

2000, Vector Pipeline L.P. (Vector),

tendered for filing to become part of its

FERC Gas Tariff, Original Volume No. 1,

the tariff sheets listed in Appendix A to

the filing, to become effective November

1, 2000.

Vector states that the purpose of this

filing is to propose certain new services

and to place into effect its preferred

method of dealing with overrun

quantities and imbalances. Vector

requests any and all waivers of the

Commission’s regulations that may be

required to place the proposed tariff into

effect as requested.

Vector states that it is proposing three

new services, a park and loan service, a

title transfer tracking service, and a

management balancing service. Vector

states that the proposed interruptible

park and loan service in Rate Schedule

PALS–1 is intended as a means of

dealing with shipper imbalances in

preference to the imposition of

penalties. Whenever operationally

possible, Vector will offer shippers the

option of either parking or loaning gas,

on an interruptible basis, under Rate

Schedule PALS–1. The proposed rate

for PALS–1 service is a maximum of

$0.2556 per Dth and a minimum rate of

$0.00 per Dth. The maximum PALS–1

rate is the same as Vector’s maximum

interruptible rate for Zone 2 service (i.e.,

service from Milepost 0 to the terminus

of the pipeline at Milepost 333), which

is the 100% load factor equivalent of

Vector’s Zone 2 firm rate under Rate

Schedule FT–1. Vector may choose to

discount the PALS–1 rate, where market

circumstances warrant, on a not unduly

discriminatory basis.

Vector states that it also is offering

title transfer tracking service in Rate

Schedule TTS under which Vector

follows the trades of gas supply effected

by shippers and others who wish to use

the Vector system as a trading mart.

Such changes in gas ownership may

take place at any point on the Vector

system that has been designated by the

TTS customer and accepted by Vector.

The proposed rate for TTS service is a

maximum of $0.01 per Dth and a

minimum of $0.00 per Dth, which

reflects anticipated operation and

maintenance (O&M) costs that Vector

will incur in order to render the service.

Vector may choose to discount the TTS

rate, where market circumstances

warrant, on a not unduly discriminatory

basis.

Vector states that it is offering a

management of balancing agreement

service, in Rate Schedule MBA, under

which shippers have the opportunity to

contract with third parties for imbalance

management. The MBA service allows a

gas customer, which can be a Vector

shipper or an end-user connected to the

Vector system, to contract with a third

party for balancing, with Vector

managing the balancing on behalf of the

balancing provider. This service allows

the balancing customer to vary its takes

of gas on an hourly basis different from

the uniform requirement in the tariff

while maintaining the overall integrity

of the system by adjusting the gas takes

of the balancing provider to

compensate. For this reason, the

balancing provider must be able to

provide Vector with gas on a firm basis.

Vector will manage the balancing

service for the balancing provider. The

rate Vector proposes to charge for this

administrative service is a maximum of

$0.02 per Dth and a minimum of $0.00

per Dth, reflecting anticipated operation

and maintenance (O&M) costs that

Vector states it will incur in order to

render the service. Vector may choose to

discount the MBA rate, where market

circumstances warrant, on a not unduly

discriminatory basis.

With respect to imbalance tolerances,

Vector states that it has incorporated the

Commission’s requirement that

imbalances which do not cause system

problems should not incur a penalty.

Thus, as long as a shipper’s imbalance

does not contribute—together with the

imbalances of all other shippers on the

system—to a variance of 5% from the

target line pack (i.e., the optimum level

needed for system operations on any

given day), the shipper incurs no

imbalance charge. If, however, these

conditions are not present, a shipper—

in a noncritical period—could be

assessed an imbalance charge of $0.10

per Dth for that portion of shipper’s net

imbalance that exceeds the greater of

5% or 100 Dth. Where a shipper has

created an imbalance and failed to

resolve it through available means

during an operational flow order (OFO)

period, imbalance charges are more

severe, starting at $25 per Dth plus a

daily index price for imbalances in the

3% to 7% range. Vector states it has

provided for the netting and trading of

imbalances.

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).

David P. Boergers,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–25849 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

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