Centerpoint Energy Gas Transmission Company

Sixth Revised Volume No. 1

Effective Date: 02/28/2003, Docket: RP03-239-000, Status: Effective

Original Sheet No. 493 Original Sheet No. 493 : Effective

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

(continued)

18.2 General Procedures.

18.2.1 On March 1, 1992, and on each March 1 thereafter through

and including March 1, 2001, Transporter shall file the

proposed CSC Charge and, if applicable, CSC Rate Credit

to become effective as of the following April 1. Work

papers supporting the calculation of all components of

the proposed CSC Charge and CSC Rate Credit shall be

filed with the proposed charge. If this section shall

not have become effective as of March 1, 1992,

Transporter shall file proposed revised tariff sheets

reflecting the CSC Rate Credit within ten (10) Days of

the date that this section shall become effective, with a

proposed effective date of the first Day of the Month

following the date such revised sheets shall be approved.

18.2.2 Challenges related to the eligibility for recovery of the

costs included in the proposed CSC Charge shall be

governed by Section 18.8 hereof. Challenges related to

the prudence of the costs included in the proposed CSC

Charge shall be governed by Section 18.9 hereof. In the

event any protest regarding prudence or eligibility is

made with respect to any of Transporter's CSC Charge

filings, Transporter shall be permitted to implement the

proposed CSC Charge as of the relevant April 1, subject

to refund as to the appropriate persons pending (i) the

issuance of a final Commission order determining the

matter, or (ii) alternatively in the case of a prudence

challenge, the withdrawal of any such protest or the

failure by any challenger to file its case in chief as of

the specified date.

18.2.3 The CSC Charge shall be included as a component of

Transporter's commodity rate applicable to all volumes

delivered off of Transporter's system pursuant to its

generally available jurisdictional transportation and

sales tariffs during the Recovery Period. Volumes are

"delivered off of Transporter's System" when, at any of

Transporter's Delivery Points, such