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At the 91茄子 Foundation's Midyear Meeting, it was decided to sponsor a roundtable to discuss the scope of a study which would review the increasing stringent requirements for stream and river crossing permits. The goal was to assess the overall [...] Read More
Pursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (鈥淣OPR鈥�) issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (鈥淔ERC鈥� or 鈥淐ommission鈥�) on January 18, 2007, as modified by order dated February 28, 2007, the Interstate Natural Gas Association [...] Read More
The Commission's financial forms perform an important function by providing the Commission and the industry with a snapshot of the financial position of an interstate pipeline during the reporting period. As they are currently designed, [...] Read More
91茄子 submitted a response to questions posed by the Commission, along with comments on the petition for rulemaking to remove the cap on released capacity filed by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Southwest Gas Company in RM06-21, and [...] Read More
91茄子 comments are in response to FERC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to establish new permanent affiliate regulations. 91茄子 requests that the Commission issue a Final Rule in this docket consistent with the following comments: 1.The [...] Read More
Pursuant to the Commission's 鈥淣otice of Inquiry鈥� into the need for changes or revisions to its reporting requirements for financial forms issued February 15, 2007, submits comments principally directed at the Commission's Form Nos. 2 and 2-A, [...] Read More
The Associations, on behalf of their respective members, submit a Motion to extend the period for filing initial comments for an additional 15 days until March 30, 2007, and to extend the period for filing reply comments for an additional 10 days [...] Read More
91茄子 submitted comments to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, urging that the US Department of Energy and US Department of the Interior (Departments) Draft Report to Congress required by section 1813 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 continues to [...] Read More
91茄子 requests clarification or, in the alternative, rehearing of the FERC鈥檚 (Commission) Interim Rule issued on January 9, 2007. The Interim Rule represents the Commission鈥檚 interim response to the decision of the United States Court of [...] Read More
91茄子 filed an intervener鈥檚 reply brief in the HIOS/Petal litigation in the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. 91茄子 argues that FERC鈥檚 new rate of return policy, by basing pipeline returns on the returns earned by lower-risk LDCs, disregards [...] Read More
91茄子 argues that FERC departed from precedent in permitting use of lower-risk LDCs in the proxy group for setting Petitioners鈥� rates, and arbitrarily foreclosed use of gas pipeline MLPs as proxies for determining a gas pipeline鈥檚 rate of [...] Read More
While 91茄子 recognizes that the Commission has made efforts to meet certain of the objections raised by the industry in comments on the Commission鈥檚 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (鈥淣OPR鈥�) in this matter, the Final Rule adopted by the [...] Read More
Chairman Joseph T. Kelliher Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 888 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20426 Re: Docket No. EM06-5-000 Dear Chairman Kelliher: On November 22, 2005, I wrote to express the appreciation of the members of the [...] Read More
Standards for Business Practices for Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines and Standards for Business Practices for PubliPursuant to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued October 25, 2006, 91茄子 submits the following comments on the Commission’s [...] Read More
Pursuant to the Commission's orders of October 20 and November 30, 2005, 91茄子 submits the following comments in reply to several of the comments filed in this proceeding on November 22, [...] Read More
Pursuant to Rules 212 and 2008 of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 C.F.R §§ 385.212 and 385.2008 (2001), the Association of Oil Pipe Lines (AOPL), Interstate Natural Gas [...] Read More
91茄子 respectfully requests that the Commission grant this motion to extend the deadline for filing reply comments in this proceeding to December 9, [...] Read More
91茄子 offers these comments in response to FERC's Request For Comments (鈥淩equest鈥�), issued December 2, 2004, in Docket No. PL05-5-000. 91茄子 is a national, non-profit trade association that represents virtually all of the major interstate [...] Read More
The importance of sufficient pipeline infrastructure has been recognized frequently by the Commission and the industry. Many difficulties in maintaining this sufficiency have been encountered in recent years as a result of factors beyond the [...] Read More
91茄子 suggests that there may be good cause for an audited company to move off of the shortened procedure track to trial-type procedures. 91茄子 requests that the Commission modify its proposed 搂 158.3 to provide that 鈥渦pon a good cause showing by [...] Read More