[Federal Register: December 24, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 247)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RP99-183-000]

 
Viking Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Filing and Refund 
Report

December 18, 1998.
    Take notice that on December 14, 1998, Viking Gas Transmission 
Company (Viking) tendered for filing as part of its FERC Gas Tariff, 
First Revised Volume No. 1, the tariff sheets listed on Appendix A to 
this filing.
    Viking proposed that 1st Rev Sub Tenth Revised Sheet No. 6 be made 
effective on November 1, 1997 and that the other tariff sheets listed 
on Appendix A be made effective as designated thereon.
    Viking also submits a refund report labeled ``Expansion Contracts 
Demand Revenue Adjustments'' that details refunds Viking is making to 
its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion customers.
    Viking states that the purpose of this filing is to make a limited 
Section 4 filing pursuant to 15 U.S.C. Sec. 717c to true-up Viking's 
initial incremental demand rate for Rate Schedule FT-C service to $8.63 
per month and to refund the difference between the initial and trued-up 
rates for Rate Schedule FT-C expansion service. On November 12, 1996, 
Viking Gas Transmission Company filed in Docket No. CP97-93-000, 
pursuant to Section 7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, to construct and 
operate 29.4 miles of pipeline looping and related facilities. As 
discussed in the Commission's May 6, 1997 ``Order Issuing Certificate'' 
in Docket No. CP97-93-000, 79 FERC para. 61,136 (May 6, 1997 Order), 
Viking proposed to make a retroactive true-up filing to adjust the 
initial rate for FT-C service of $8.65 Dth/month after a final 
accounting of the project was completed with Viking refunding the 
difference between the initial and trued-up rates for Rate Schedule FT-
C expansion service to its customers. See Viking Gas Transmission 
Company, 79 FERC para. 61,136, at 61,575 (1997). On September 23, 1997, 
Viking filed in Docket No. RP97-534-000 to establish Rate Schedule FT-C 
and to implement the initial incremental demand rate of $8.65 Dth/month 
approved by the Commission in the May 6, 1997 Order.
    Viking states that Sheet No. 6 reflects Viking's trued-up rates for 
its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion service. Viking is also filing 
workpapers that update the exhibits that Viking filed on November 12, 
1996 in Docket No. CP97-93-000 as part of its ``Abbreviated Application 
for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.'' These 
workpapers detail the differences between the costs underlying Viking's 
initial and trued-up rates for Rate Schedule FT-C service as well as 
the development of Viking's trued-up Rate Schedule FT-C rates. Viking's 
refund report details the refund and interest owed to Viking's Rate 
Schedule FT-C customers. (18 CFR 154.501). Viking further states that 
it is refunding these amounts to its Rate Schedule FT-C expansion 
customers in January 1999 by applying the refund amounts to its 
invoices for December 1998. Viking began invoicing based on its trued-
up rates for services rendered in December 1998.

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    Viking states that copies of the filing have been mailed to all of 
its jurisdictional customers and to affected state regulatory 
commissions.
    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 20426, in 
accordance with sections 385.214 or 385.211 of the Commission's Rules 
and Regulations. All such motions or protests must be filed in 
accordance with Section 154.210 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 this filing are on file with the 
Commission and are available for public inspection in the Public 
Reference Room
David P. Boergers,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-34083 Filed 12-23-98; 8:45 am]
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