Opinion ID: 184604
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 6

Heading: Necessity of a Factual Hearing

Text: 51 Texaco claims that the existence of facts unique to Mojave and the California gas market required FERC to hold an evidentiary hearing before ruling on its application for an exemption from Order 636's SFV rate design. This argument fails because the facts upon which Texaco based its claim were part of the paper record before FERC, and FERC accepted their validity. See First Rehearing Order, 64 FERC at 61,390. Nor has Texaco referred the court to any issue of motive, intent, [ ] credibility ... [or] past occurrence, Louisiana Ass'n of Independent Producers & Royalty Owners v. FERC, 958 F.2d 1101, 1113 (D.C.Cir.1992), that would require the Commission to hold a hearing rather than decide the case on the basis of the paper record. Under the circumstances, we cannot quarrel with the Commission's conclusion that none was required. See id. at 1113-14.