Blue Lake Gas Storage Company
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 11/01/2007, Docket: RP08- 17-001, Status: Effective
Sub Second Revised Sheet No. 146 Sub Second Revised Sheet No. 146 : Effective
Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 146
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
remedy the situation and to remove the cause in an adequate
manner and with all reasonable dispatch, nor shall such causes
or contingencies affecting such performance relieve Customer,
in whole or in part, from its obligations to pay the monthly
charges provided for in Section 8 of these General Terms and
Conditions.
10. PRIORITY OF SERVICE REQUESTS AND SERVICE AGREEMENTS
10.1 FIRM STORAGE
(a) Priority Of Request For Initial Firm Storage Agreements:
After notification, pursuant to Section 14 of these
General Terms and Conditions hereof, that Seller has
available firm Storage capacity which is not subject to
contract or is released pursuant to Section 8 of Rate
Schedule FS, Seller will accept requests that Seller
enter into an Agreement for firm Storage Service. Except
as provided in Section 10.1(b), below, the order of
priority among such requests shall be based upon the
economic value of the transaction to Seller, with the
transaction producing the greatest economic value having
the highest priority of request, provided, however, that
nothing herein shall require Seller to provide service at
any rates less than Seller's applicable Maximum Rates,
and provided further, that Seller shall not be required
to enter into Service Agreements with terms of more than
one Year unless Customer has a long-term debt rating of
at least Baa3 according to Moody's Investors Service or
BBB- according to Standard & Poor's Corporation or if its
obligations to the Seller are guaranteed by a person with
a long-term debt rating equal to or greater than stated
above. Economic value shall be determined on the basis
of the product of the term of service in years in the
request, (using a term not to exceed twenty (20) years)
and the Reservation Charges for each year in the life of
the Agreement agreed to in the request by the requesting
party, discounted to present value by the then-current
interest rate determined in accordance with Section
154.501(d) of the Commission's Rules and Regulations.
The sum of the present value for each year in the life of
the Agreement shall be the economic value of the
Agreement. In the event two or more bids with equal