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[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 9, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31457-31458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-15229]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket Nos. TM98-4-4-000 and RP98-155-001]

Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc.; Notice in Proposed Changes 
in FERC Gas Tariff

June 3, 1998.
    Take notice that on May 29, 1998, Granite State Gas Transmission, 
Inc. (Granite State) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas 
Tariff, Third Revised Volume No. 1, the revised tariff sheets below for 
effectiveness on July 1, 1998:

Fourteenth Revised Sheet No. 21
Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 22
Substitute First Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334

    According to Granite State, the foregoing tariff sheets propose a 
revised quarterly Power Cost Adjustment (PCA) surcharge for the third 
quarter of 1998, together with a reconciliation factor for prior period 
undercollections of reimbursable electric power costs for which Granite 
State is charged by Portland Pipe Line Corporation under the provisions 
of a lease of a pipeline and which Granite State recovers through the 
PCA.
    Granite State further states that it filed a quarterly adjustment 
under its PCA tariff tracking provision on March 2, 1998 for 
effectiveness on April 1, 1998,

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together with a reconciliation for prior period undercollections. It is 
said that the proposed reconciliation was rejected in an order issued 
April 1, 1998 on the grounds that the reconciliation procedure appeared 
to recover reimbursable power costs incurred prior to the date that the 
PCA became effective on April 1, 1997.
    Granite State says that the April 1, 1998 order established a 
Technical Conference in the proceeding which was held May 19, 1998, 
during which the Staff made certain recommendations concerning the PCA 
tracking procedure and particularly the reconciliation methodology for 
undercollections of the electric power costs. According to Granite 
State, the revised tariff sheets listed above incorporate Staff 
suggested revisions in the PCA procedure to establish separate 
surcharge components for the projected electric power costs in each 
quarterly filing and a separate surcharge component for the recovery of 
uncollected costs in prior periods. Granite State further states that 
the foregoing revised tariff sheets and surcharge calculations also 
reflect Granite State's understanding of its authorization to collect 
prior period undercollections through the reconciliation procedure in 
the PCA.
    Granite State also states that during the Technical Conference the 
Staff disagreed with granite State's interpretation of the 
authorization to collect prior period undercollections of the electric 
power costs billed by Portland Pipe Line, particularly such costs 
incurred prior to April 1, 1997. Granite State has also tendered in 
this filing the alternate revised tariff sheets listed below for 
effectiveness on July 1, 1998:

Alternate Fourteenth Revised Sheet No. 21
Alternate Fifteenth Revised Sheet No. 22
Alternate Substitute Revised Sheet Nos. 333 and 334

    Acccording to Granite State the foregoing alternate revised tariff 
sheets reflect in the PCA reconciliation methodology and calculation of 
the PCA surcharge the Staff's view of Granite State's authorization to 
recover prior period reimbursable electric power costs.
    According to Granite State, copies of its filing have been served 
on its firm customers, Bay State Gas Company and Northern Utilities, 
Inc., and on the regulatory agencies of the states of Maine, 
Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    Any person desiring to be heard or to protest this 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 and 385.211 of the Commission's Rules 
and Regulations. All such motions or protests must be filed as provided 
in 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.
David P. Boergers,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-15229 Filed 6-8-98; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-M
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