[Federal Register: May 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 89)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-286-000]

 
Granite State Gas Transmission, Inc., Notice of Proposed Changes 
in FERC Gas Tariff

May 4, 1999.
    Take notice that on April 28, 1999, Granite State Gas Transmission, 
Inc. (Granite State) tendered for filing with the Commission the 
revised tariff sheets listed below in its FERC Gas Tariff, Third 
Revised Volume No. 1, for effectiveness on May 1, 1999:

First Revised Sheet No. 10
Fourth Revised Sheet No. 24
Second Revised Sheet No. 141
Second Revised Sheet No. 142
Third Revised Sheet No. 144
First Revised Sheet No. 145
First Revised Sheet No. 146
First Revised Sheet No. 147
First Revised Sheet No. 148
First Revised Sheet No. 149
First Revised Sheet No. 150
First Revised Sheet No. 441

    According to Granite State, the primary purpose of its tariff 
filing is to revise the methodology in its Rate Schedule LMS (Load 
Management Service) for settling cash-outs with its transportation 
customers or imbalances between nominations for service and actual 
deliveries of gas. Granite State further states that, since it 
commenced restructured operations on November 1, 1993, in compliance 
with Order Nos. 636, et seq., as an Operational Balancing Agreement 
(OBA) holder with Tennessee Gas Pipeline (Tennessee) it subscribed to 
Tennessee's Load Management Service to manage over and under daily and 
monthly transportation service deliveries from Tennessee for ultimate 
transportation and delivery to customers on Granite

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State. To integrate the Tennessee Load Management Service with its 
operations, Granite State adopted a new Rate Schedule LMS which was a 
mirror of the Tennessee Load Management Service.
    Granite State says that the foregoing arrangement for load 
balancing on its system worked well as long as Tennessee was the only 
upstream pipeline connected to its system. Lately, however, Granite 
State states that its system has been connected at two locations, in 
Westbrook, Maine, and Newington, New Hampshire, to the pipeline jointly 
owned by the Portland Natural Gas Transmission System (PNGTS) and 
Maritime and Northeast Pipeline, L.L.C. and PNGTS has commenced 
delivering gas to Granite State at these interconnections for further 
transportation and delivery to customers directly connected to the 
Granite State system. It is further stated that Maritimes is 
forecasting an in-service date of November, 1999, for the pipeline 
facilities authorized in Docket Nos. CP96-809, et al.
    According to Granite State the revisions in its Rate Schedule LMS 
methodology are necessary because Granite State is now an intervening 
pipeline between Point Operators and OBA holders in its system and 
three (3) upstream pipelines. Granite State further states that the 
revisions in its Load Management Service which it proposes will pass 
through to the Point Operators and OBA holders on its system the 
settlements with upstream pipelines for delivery imbalances so that 
Granite State neither gains nor loses in the settlement process.
    Granite State states that copies of its filing have been served on 
its firm and interruptible customers and on the regulatory agencies of 
the states of Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
    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 20406, in 
accordance with sections 385.214 or 385.211 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 the 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).
Linwood A. Watson, Jr.,
Acting Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-11604 Filed 5-7-99; 8:45 am]
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