Opinion ID: 699520
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: The Fourth Order

Text: 24 As the reader will have guessed, National then requested rehearing, which in the fourth order under review, the Commission denied. Regulation of Natural Gas Pipelines After Partial Wellhead Decontrol (In re: Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company), 66 FERC p 61,266 (1994) (Fourth Order ). Although it asserted that it ha[d] the power ... to limit the effect of the retroactive vacatur of National Fuel's CD reduction were National Fuel to demonstrate that it had relied to its detriment on the CD reduction, the Commission (1) held that National Fuel ha[d] not shown any detrimental reliance on its part, id. at 61,649; and (2) added that none of the arguments raised by National if found to be valid would place the equities in National Fuel's favor and overcome the legal presumption for retroactivity. Id. at 61,650.