Centerpoint Energy - Mississippi River

Third Revised Volume No. 1

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Effective Date: 11/01/1994, Docket: RP95- 7-000, Status: Effective

First Revised Sheet No. 103 First Revised Sheet No. 103 : Effective

Superseding: Original Sheet No. 103

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

(Continued)

5. PROCEDURES FOR REQUESTING SERVICE (Continued)

5.12 Allocation of Capacity

(a) Pursuant to Section 284.284(b) of the Commission's

regulations, MRT's firm sales Customers as of the effective date of

this tariff will have their contract demands under their firm sales

agreements converted to firm transportation and firm storage

capacity. All available firm storage capacity will be allocated to

those converting firm sales Customers.

(b) FTS Customers as of the effective date of this tariff

shall retain their priority to the firm system capacity for which

they have contracted.

(c) Each Rate Schedule FTS and Rate Schedule SCT Customer,

including MRT's bundled firm sales Customers whose contract demands

will be converted to firm transportation pursuant to Section

284.284(b) of the Commission's regulations, shall receive an amount

of firm capacity under Rate Schedule FTS or Rate Schedule SCT equal

to its firm contract demand increased by a factor derived from the

ratio of total unsubscribed system capacity to total system

capacity as of the effective date of this tariff.

(d) If at any time MRT has transportation and/or storage

capacity available which will support additional firm services,

then MRT shall make such capacity available for firm service(s)

upon receiving a valid request for such capacity. The allocation

of such capacity among firm services shall be determined by MRT

taking into account operational conditions and utilizing the bid

evaluation procedures as set forth in Sections 15.5 and 15.6 of

these General Terms and Conditions for each request received.