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Tariff Filing Preparation | Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Company Registration: eTariff requires that every regulated entity have a Company Identifier as part of an eTariff filing. A Company Identifier is obtained from the Commission. Information on acceptable company name formats and suggestions on how to populate the Company Registration on-line form are available from the Instructions for Company Registration (updated September 11, 2015). You will need one person eRegistered to do business with the Commission to register a company. As a safety measure, please provide more than one account manager when you do your initial registration or any future revisions / updates to the Company Profile. Once you have assembled the necessary information, proceed as follows:
Go to https://ferconline.ferc.gov/LogIn.aspx. Use your ID and password to log in to FERC Online.
Go to the Company Registration page at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/Company.aspx, and click on “Register a company for the first time”.
TOFC: Filing Title: Citation: TOFC Description
TOFC: 1300 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-State Election, Fuel filing or SOC chg w/o rate chg This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for all non-fee based; State Rate Election filings, Fuel filings (note the optional notice procedure only resets the five years filing requirement with respect to the Fuel rate), and / or revisions to the Statement of Operating Conditions. Combines TOFC 1280 into 1300.
TOFC: 1310 Citation: 284.123(b)(2)+(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-FEE-New or chg in Cost Based Rate This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for all fee based Cost of Service Based Rate filings with a 60 day statutory / regulatory timeline. Additionally, the filing may include changes to Statement of Operating Conditions. The filing requires a fee pursuant to § 381.403.
TOFC: 980 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)/.224 Filing Title: State Election, Fuel filing or SOC chg w/o rate chg This is for all non-fee based; State Rate Election filings, Fuel filings, and / or revisions to a Statement of Operating Conditions. Combines TOFC 770 into 980.
TOFC: 760 Citation: 284.123(b)(2)+(e)/.224 Filing Title: FEE-New or chg in Cost Based Rate This is for all fee based Cost of Service Based Rate filings with a 150 day statutory / regulatory timeline. Additionally, the filing may include changes to Statement of Operating Conditions. The filing requires a fee pursuant to § 381.403.
TOFC: 1270 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-Amendment using optional notice procedure filing This is for filing an amendment using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). The initial filing must have been made as a statutory / regulatory filing using TOFC of 760, 1300, or 1310 and any amendments made using TOFC 1270 or 1350.
TOFC: 1000 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)/.224 Filing Title: Amendment to non-statutory filings This is for filing an amendment to non-statutory / regulatory Rate filings, Fuel filings, and / or changes to the Statement of Operating Conditions.
TOFC: 1350 Citation: 284.123(b)(2),(e)/.224 Filing Title: Amendment to statutory filings This is for filing an amendment to a statutory filing, e.g., the initial filing must be made using TOFC of 760, 1300, or 1310.
TOFC: 780 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)/.224 Filing Title: Data Response or Supplement to the record This is for filing a response to a data request or a supplement to the record of an existing tariff filing.
TOFC: 790 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)/.224 Filing Title: Compliance filing This is for making a compliance filing in response to a Commission order, for making a filing without a Tariff Record, or for a Hinshaw pipeline filing a cost and throughput study. If filing a new rate case in compliance with a five year rate review commitment, use a TOFC of 1300, 1310, 980, or 760.
TOFC: 1370 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-Compliance filing This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). New TOFC for filing a compliance filing in response to a Commission order, for making a filing without a Tariff Record, or for a Hinshaw pipeline filing a cost and throughput study. A non-statutory / regulatory filing may not be converted to have a statutory / regulatory timeline by using this TOFC. To use this TOFC, the initial filing and all subsequent filings must have been made as a statutory / regulatory filing, e.g., the initial filing must have been made using TOFC of 760, 1300, or 1310 and any amendments made using TOFC of 1270 or 1350.
TOFC: 1200 Citation: 284.123(b),(h)/.224 Filing Title: Refund Report This is for filing all refund reports for section 311 and Hinshaw pipelines.
TOFC: 1260 Citation: 284.123(b)(1)+(g)(9)(ii)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-Certification of Unchg State Rate Election This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for filing a state rate certification that the pipeline's currently effective rates are based upon its current state approved rates. Filings using this TOFC must contain a tariff record. See 145 FERC ¶ 61,168 (2013) for additional filing guidance.
TOFC: 1360 Citation: 284.123(b)(1)/.224 Filing Title: Certification of Unchg State Rate Election This is for filing a state rate certification that the pipeline's currently effective rates are based upon its current state approved rates. See 145 FERC ¶ 61,168 (2013) for additional filing guidance.
TOFC: 1340 Citation: 284.224/.123 Filing Title: FEE-Blanket Certificate Application including a live SOC This is for a filing by a Hinshaw pipeline for a § 284.224 blanket certificate. The filing must include a live baseline Statement of Operating Conditions (SOC) including a rate election pursuant to §§ 284.123(b) and (e). The rate election may either be a state rate (§284.123(b)(1)) or a cost based rate (§284.123(b)(2)). The filing requires a fee pursuant to § 381.207.
TOFC: 770 Citation: Deleted Filing Title: Deleted Deleted effective November 7, 2016. Use TOFC 980.
TOFC: 1280 Citation: Deleted Filing Title: Deleted Deleted effective November 7, 2016. Use TOFC 1300.
TOFC: 1330 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)+(g)/224 Filing Title: OPT-Baseline SOC-w/ State Rate Election or no rate chg This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for filing a baseline Statement of Operating Conditions (SOC). This may include filings for either, a new baseline SOC with a state rate election, or a baseline with a new Tariff Title and Tariff ID.
TOFC: 1320 Citation: 284.123(b)(2),(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-FEE-Baseline SOC-w/ Cost Based Rate This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for filing a new baseline Statement of Operating Conditions with a cost based rate. The filing requires a fee pursuant to § 381.403.
TOFC: 990 Citation: 284.123(b),(e)/.224 Filing Title: Baseline SOC-w/ State Rate election or no rate chg This is for filing a baseline Statement of Operating Conditions (SOC). This may include filings for either, a new baseline SOC with a state rate election, or a baseline with a new Tariff Title and Tariff ID.
TOFC: 820 Citation: 284.123(b)(2),(e)/.224 Filing Title: FEE-Baseline SOC-w/ Cost Based Rate This is for filing a new baseline Statement of Operating Conditions with a cost based rate. The filing requires a fee pursuant to § 381.403.
TOFC: 810 Citation: 284.123(h) Filing Title: Withdrawal of entire filing This is to withdraw an entire filing prior to the filing being acted on by the Commission.
TOFC: 1290 Citation: 284.123(e)+(g)/.224 Filing Title: OPT-Termination of SOC and/or Blanket Certificate This is for a filing using the optional notice procedures under § 284.123(g). This is for a filing by a section 311 pipeline to terminate its entire Statement of Operating Conditions (SOC). This is also for a filing by a Hinshaw pipeline to terminate its § 284.224 blanket certificate and / or its entire SOC.
TOFC: 800 Citation: 284.123(e)/.224 Filing Title: Termination of SOC and/or Blanket Certificate This is for a filing by a section 311 pipeline to terminate its entire Statement of Operating Conditions (SOC). This is also for a filing by a Hinshaw pipeline to terminate its § 284.224 blanket certificate and / or its entire SOC.
In Order No. 735 the Commission reconfirmed its policy to periodically review the rates and terms of service of section 311 and Hinshaw pipelines. Order No. 735 revised the reporting requirements in FERC Form 549D, for section 311 and Hinshaw pipelines, switching to a quarterly from an annual report along with greater detail and more granular transactional data. The Commission balanced the increased transparency reporting requirements of jurisdictional transactions with a lengthening of the periodic rate review policy from three to five years. In Order No. 781 the Commission adopted an Optional Notice Procedure, while maintaining the same rate review standards under §§ 284.123(b)(1), (b)(2) and/or (e), that allows a pipeline to commit to meeting the five year rate review policy in exchange for a quicker and less administratively burdensome, but just a thorough review of its filing. Prior to the implementation of the Optional Notice Procedures, staff and the pipeline would engage in a settlement process that often required negotiating, drafting and then filing a settlement, followed by and order that often required a compliance filing, further followed by an additional order on the compliance filing. Under the new Optional Notice Procedures if the filing is not protested, the filing is deemed approved at the end of the 60 day optional notice period. As part of the new process staff encourages the pipeline to work with all stakeholders and file rates and SOC revisions that is the equivalent to the results of a prepackaged settlement. The periodic rate review requires a pipeline with cost based rates pursuant to § 284.123(b)(2) to make a rate filing under §§ 284.123(b)(1) or (2) on or before the five years from the date it filed its most recent rate application. A pipeline with rates based upon a state rate election pursuant to § 284.123(b)(i) must, within the same five year period, file either a State Rate Certification that its rates continue to comply the requirements of § 284.123(b)(1) or make a rate filing under §§ 284.123(b)(1) or (2). A Hinshaw pipeline may always meet its periodic rate review obligation by submitting an informational cost and throughput study in the form specified in §154.313 of the Commission’s regulations. Additionally, any pipeline with a state rate election pursuant to § 284.123(b)(1), and that filed pursuant to the optional notice procedures, § 284.123(g), must file for new rates within 30 days of a new state rate becoming effective. The Optional Notice Procedure is selected by a pipeline by making its eTariff filing using a TOFC (Type of Filing Code) for a filing pursuant to § 284.123(g). The Optional Notice Procedure TOFCs are designated with a “OPT” in the Filing Title Description. The Optional Notice Procedure timeline:
Tariff Filing Contents: Every tariff filing is required to have the following material:
Making an eTariff Filing If you are using:
Follow their instructions. It is always advisable, even when using eTariff software or services, to test your filing against the Commission’s Sandbox described in Step 2 below. The Commission cannot recommend and does not review or endorse any eTariff software package or vendor. The North American Energy Standards Board also does not recommend or endorse any eTariff software. However, they do maintain a list of eTariff vendors on their home page. If you are not using eTariff software, simple eTariff filings can be created using the following instructions.
ii. If you receive Warnings, your filing has been received, but you need to double-check that you submitted the correct information as such warnings are indications that what you submitted is different than what was expected.
Name Change If the pipeline changes its name, merges with another entity, or has its tariff adopted by another entity, i.e., a change in operations (18 C.F.R. § 284.123(e)), it must notify the Commission. The notice is required to be submitted through the Company Registration system and then, as necessary, followed by a Tariff Revision in eTariff. This is a two-step process:
Notices of Cancellation or Succession to a Tariff The pipeline must notify the Commission if the pipeline desires to cancel a service or its complete tariff (18 C.F.R. § 284.123(e)). This notice is required to be submitted through the eTariff portal. If the tariff is the only tariff the seller has on file, or all of the records under one tariff are being cancelled, then the seller must also as part of that filing request that the Commission cancel that Tariff ID using a complete tariff Cancellation type of filing. However, if cancelling just part of the tariff, the pipeline should file a revision to the tariff that either removes the service from the tariff text or cancels the tariff records that contain the service.