26900 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 104 / Wednesday, May 29, 1996 / Notices

1Revisions to Uniform System of Accounts,

Forms, Statements, and Reporting Requirements for

Natural Gas Companies, 60 FR 53019 (October 11,

1995).

2 61 FR 8870, March 6, 1996.

3The requirement to file an Index of Customers

is set forth in §§ 284.106(c) and 284.223(b). The

requirement to file the discount rate report is

contained in § 284.7(c)(6). The instructions for

filing the Index of Customers electronically are

entitled ‘‘Instruction Manual for Electronic Filing of

the Index of Customers.’’ The instructions for filing

the discount rate reports electronically are entitled

‘‘Instruction Manual for Electronic Filing of the

Discount Transportation Rate Report.’’

4These Attachments are not being published in

the Federal Register, but are available from the

Commission’s Public Reference Room.

OTHER#S RP91–162 ..................................... 006 EL PASO NATURAL GAS COMPANY.

CAG–21. ..................... DOCKET# RP95–449 ..................................... 002 TRUNKLINE GAS COMPANY

CAG–22 ...................... OMITTEED

CAG–23 ...................... DOCKET #OR95–2 ......................................... 001 SANTEE DISTRIBTUING COMPANY V. DIXIE PIPELINE COMPANY.

CAG–24 ...................... DOCKET #SA94–5 .......................................... 001 CENTANA INTRASTATE PIPELINE COMPANY.

CAG–25 ...................... DOCKET #RP95–88 ....................................... 007 TENNSSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY.

CAG–26 ...................... OMITTED

CAG–27 ...................... DOCKET #MG96–10 ....................................... 000 CARNEGIE INTERSTATE PIPELINE COMPANY.

CAG–28 ...................... OMITTED

CAG–29 ...................... DOCKET #CP95–482 ..................................... 001 COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

CAG–30 ...................... OMITTED

CAG–31 ...................... DOCKET #CP95–76 ....................................... 001 TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

OTHER # SCP95–2 ........................................ 000 TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

CP95–2 ........................................................... 001 TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

CP95–76 ......................................................... 000 TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

CP95–76 ......................................................... 002 TEXAS EASTERN TRANSMISSION CORPORATION.

CAG–32 ...................... DOCKET #CP95–376 ..................................... 000 MISSISSIPPI RIVER TRANSMISSION CORPORATION AND NORMA FIELD

SERVICES CORPORATION.

CAG–33 ...................... DOCKET #95–700 .......................................... 001 WILLIAMS NATURAL GAS COMPANY.

OTHER SCP95–700 ....................................... 000 WILLIAMS NATURAL GAS COMPANY.

CAG–34 ...................... DOCKET #CP95–609 ..................................... 000 EQUITRANS, INC.

CAG–35 ...................... OMITTED ................

CAG–36 ...................... OMITTED ................

CAG–37 ...................... DOCKET #CP95–500 ..................................... 001 SOUTHERN NATURAL GAS COMPANY.

CAG–38. ..................... DOCKET #RP96–226 ..................................... 000 YOUNG GAS STORAGE COMPANY, LTD.

HYDRO AGENDA

H–1 ............................. RESERVED ................

ELECTRIC AGENDA

E–1. ............................ RESERVED ................

OIL AND GAS AGENDA

I .................................. PIPELINE RATE MATTERS ................

PR .............................. RESERVED ................

II. ................................ PIPELINE CERTIFICATE MATTERS

PC–1. ......................... RESERVED

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–13484 Filed 5–23–95; 4:54 pm]

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P

[Docket No. RM95–4–000]

Revisiosn to Uniform System of

Accounts, Forms, Statements, and

Reporting Requirements for Natural

Gas Companies; Notice of Revised

Electronic Filing Specifications for

Index of Customers and Discount

Transportation Rate Report

May 22, 1996.

On September 28, 1995, the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commission

(Commission) issued Order No. 581,

amending its Uniform System of

Accounts, forms, and reports and

statements for natural gas companies.1

The changes wrought by the rule

include modifications to the

Commission’s electronic filing

requirements.

Although Order No. 581 imposed new

and revised electronic filing

requirements, it did not include the

final electronic filing specifications. On

February 29, 1996, the Commission

issued ‘‘Notice Adopting Electronic

Filing Specifications for Index of

Customers and Discount Transportation

Rate Report’’ (the Notice) in Docket No.

RM95–4–000.2 The Notice contained the

instructions for filing the Index of

Customers and discount rate reports

electronically.3 The first Index of

Customers filing was due April 1, 1996.

The first discount rate report filed

electronically was due with the filing of

the March report.

On April 29, 1996, the Commission

issued an Order on Clarification

addressing requests for clarification of

the instructions for filing the Index and

discount rate reports electronically. The

Commission agreed to make two

modifications to its instructions. The

Commission directed staff to include

these changes, and other minor

modifications staff has identified, in

revised instruction manuals to be issued

soon after issuance of the Notice.

In compliance with the Notice, staff is

revising the instruction manuals for the

Index of Customers and discount rate

reports appended as Attachments A and

B, respectively.4

Changes Required by the Order on

Clarification

In accordance with the Order on

Clarification, General Instruction 1(B) of

both sets of instructions is modified to

eliminate the impression that the

respondent has the election to comply

with the Index of Customers and

discount rate report requirements. The

phrase ‘‘[i]f the respondent does not

want to report a value for a specific data

item on the record, then the data item

can be omitted * * * is replaced by the

phrase ‘‘If a data item is not applicable,
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the data item must be omitted, * * *.’’

A similar modification is made at

General Instruction 5(B).

In the instruction manual for the

Index of Customers, the last sentence of

the Purpose section is revised to clarify

that the electronic file must be

downloadable from the pipeline’s EBB.

Minor Changes Common to Both Sets of

Instructions

Staff desires to make several minor

modifications to correct typographical

errors and make other corrections. Due

to experience gained from the filing of

the Index of Customers and discount

rate reports in April, several

instructions are added or clarified to

avoid confusion.

The section, What to Submit, now

instructs the pipeline on the proper

contents of a revised filing. The

instructions applicable to the Report

Date are clarified. The Report Date is the

date the pipeline expects to file the

report with the Secretary of the

Commission. In other words, the Report

Date is the anticipated filing date.

The instructions concerning the

footnote record are revised. The data

item, Footnote ID, is renamed Footnote

Number to avoid confusion with a data

item of the same name on the detail

record. The format of this data item is

changed to numeric. The instruction is

rewritten to ensure that only the number

of the footnote is reported on the

footnote record. The proper format for

the footnote record is displayed at page

10 of the instructions.

Recently issued pipeline ID codes are

added to the pipeline ID code listing.

Erroneous pipeline ID codes are

corrected. Several pipeline names are

also corrected.

In the appendix containing the file

creation hints, instructions for saving a

tab delimited file in Wordperfect 6.0 are

added.

Modifications Unique to the Index of

Customers

In the instructions concerning the

detail record, the definition of the data

item, Max Storage Quantity, is clarified.

There has been some confusion over

which storage contract quantity the

Commission requires to be reported.

The Max Storage Quantity is the largest

quantity of natural gas the pipeline is

obligated to store for the shipper under

the reported contract. The commission

does not want a daily injection or

withdrawal quantity reported in this

field. Similarly, a pipeline must not

report the daily injection or withdrawal

quantity in the field reserved for the

data item, Max Daily Transportation

Quantity.

Staff would also like to bring to the

pipelines’ attention two instructions to

which some pipelines are not adhering.

First, the regulation at 18 CFR

284.106(c)(3)(i) requires the pipeline to

report the full legal name of the

customer. Some of the indices received

to date do not reflect the full legal name

of the customers.

Several guidelines should be followed

when recording a customer’s name.

Take care to check the correct spelling

of the name. TransCanada Pipelines

Limited was spelled also TransCanada

PipeLines Limited. Do not leave words

out of a customer’s name. The name,

Washington Gas Light Company, was

submitted correctly in some instances

but also incorrectly as, Washington Gas

Light, and Washington Gas.

Pay attention to punctuation and do

not abbreviate words within the name.

NGC Transportation, Inc. was spelled:

NGC Transportation Inc.

NGC Transportation, Inc.

NGC TRANSPORTATION, INC.

NGC TRANS., INC.

By far, however, the most common error

is the omission of the words company,

corporation, or Inc. The pipeline must

report the full legal name of the shipper.

The regulation at 18 CFR

284.106(c)(3) requires the pipeline to

report all firm transportation or storage

service contracts. Individually

certificated contracts appearing in

Volume No. 2 of the pipeline’s FERC

Gas Tariff must be included. Several

pipelines appear to have excluded these

contracts from their indices. All firm

transportation and storage contracts

must be reported in the Index of

Customers, including individually

certificated transactions.

Modifications Unique to the Discount

Rate Report

The Commission received several

discount rate reports in April which did

not contain a paper copy of the report.

The Commission requires a paper copy

filing of the discount rate report. To

avoid any further confusion, an

instruction is added in the section,

What to Submit, requiring an original

and at least five paper copies of the

letter of transmittal and of the data

items required by 18 CFR 284.7(c)(6) to

accompany the electronic filing.

The section, When to Submit, is

modified to clarify that all reports

submitted subsequent to the report due

for March must comply with the

electronic filing instructions. All

resubmissions filed after April 15, 1996,

therefore, no matter to what billing

periods they apply, must be filed

electronically.

General Instruction 3 clarifies the file

naming convention. Resubmissions for

prior months must be segregated into

separate files. However, they may be

filed on a single diskette if submitted

under the cover of a single letter of

transmittal.

General Instruction 5(C) is revised to

refer to the measurement basis to be

used when reporting the maximum and

discounted rates. All of the rates must

be reported on the same measurement

basis as the rates reported in the

pipeline’s FERC Gas Tariff. General

Instruction 5(E) is modified to remind

pipelines not to include dollar signs

when reporting rates. General

Instruction 7(B) is deleted since no rate

schedules are reported in the discount

rate report.

The format for the paper copy of the

discount rate report is unspecified.

Several pipelines have simply printed

on paper the contents of the electronic

file. This is an acceptable format with

the following modifications:

(a) The pipeline must add column

headers to the data to explain the

contents of each column.

(b) The Item ID must appear in the

column heading for each data item so

the Footnote ID can be properly

interpreted.

Conclusion

The filing requirements and

regulations have been carefully crafted

to ensure the data submitted by the

pipelines is compatible with typical

computer processing techniques. It is

imperative for pipelines to adhere

closely to the instructions to ensure the

data’s usefulness. Where a pipeline’s

data on file with the Commission does

not conform to the regulations and filing

requirements, we would expect to see a

revision filed to bring the data into

conformance.

Lois D. Cashell,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96–13352 Filed 5–28–96; 8:45 am]

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