[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 125 (Thursday, June 28, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34437-34438]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-16223]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket No. RP01-458-000]


Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Proposed Change in FERC 
Gas Tariff

June 22, 2001.
    Take notice that on June 15, 2001, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company 
(Tennessee), tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Fifth 
Revised Volume No. 1, Second Revised Tariff Sheet No. 175. Tennessee 
requests that the tariff sheet be made effective August 1, 2001.
    Tennessee states that the purpose of Tennessee's tariff filing is 
to provide formal notice to Rate Schedule FT-G customers and the 
Commission that Tennessee intends to charge FT-G customers for both the 
transportation of ``swing'' volumes into and out of storage commenting 
August 1, 2001. Tennessee states that its Order No. 636 compliance 
filing in Docket No. RS92-23 contemplated that Tennessee would charge 
FT-G customers the applicable commodity rate and fuel for the 
transportation of ``swing'' volumes both into and out of storage. 
However, in setting up its billing system to implement the extensive 
changes required by Order No. 636, Tennessee inadvertently treated Rate 
Schedule FT-G customers the same as Rate Schedule FT-GS customers with 
respect to the transportation of storage ``swing'' volumes. In that 
regard, in Docket No. RS92-23, the Commission ruled that Tennessee 
could charge FT-GS customers only for transportation from customers' 
receipt points to their citygates. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., 62 FERC 
para. 61,250, at 62,658 (1993).
    As a result of administrative oversight, Tennessee set up its 
billing system so that FT-G customers would be billed for the 
transportation of storage ``swing'' volumes in the same manner as FT-GS 
customers. Specifically, when a customer scheduling deliveries to its 
citygate takes less than the scheduled quantity, the variance would be 
treated as a storage injection and the customer would pay the 
applicable commodity rate and fuel for transportation from the receipt 
point to the citygate; when the customer takes more than its scheduled 
quantity at the citygate, the variance would be treated as a storage 
withdrawal, but the customer would not be charged for the 
transportation of such storage withdrawal quantity from the storage 
field to the citygate. By the

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instant tariff filing, Tennessee indicates its intent to commence 
charging FT-G shippers separately for the transportation of ``swing'' 
volumes to and from storage commencing August 1, 2001. Although 
Tennessee does not believe that a tariff filing is necessary to bill 
FT-G shippers in this manner, given the length of time that Tennessee 
has inadvertently not charged FT-G customers for the transportation of 
``swing'' volumes both into and out of storage, Tennessee believes that 
it is appropriate to provide formal notice to its customers of its 
plans via a tariff filing.
    Tennessee states that copies of the filing have been mailed to each 
of Tennessee's customers and the affected state regulatory commissions.
    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). 
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 at http://www.ferc.fed.us/efi/doorbell.htm.

David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 01-16223 Filed 6-27-01; 8:45 am]
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