[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 16, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3571-3572]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-1145]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RP01-201-000]


Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation; Notice of Proposed Changes 
in FERC Gas Tariff

January 9, 2001.
    Take notice that on December 29, 2000, 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, 2001:

Forty-eighth Revised Sheet No. 25
Forty-eighth Revised Sheet No. 26
Forty-eighth Revised Sheet No. 27
Forty-third Revised Sheet No. 28
Fifth Revised Sheet No. 28B
Sixteenth Revised Sheet No. 29
Twenty-second Revised Sheet No. 30A

    Columbus states that this filing is being submitted pursuant to an 
order issued September 15, 1999, the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (Commission) approved an uncontested settlement that 
resolves environmental cost recovery issues in the above-referenced 
proceeding. Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, 88 FERC para. 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, 2001 through January 31, 2002, 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.'' Article VI(B) of the Phase II 
Settlement. The instant filing satisfies that requirement. It provides 
for the February 1, 2001 effectiveness of revised unit components 
designed to collect $7.8 million in Main Program Costs and $2.8 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 be heard or to protest said filing should 
file a motion to intervene or a protest with the

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Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, N.E., 
Washington, D.C. 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). Comments and protests 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 at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
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