Centerpoint Energy - Mississippi River

Third Revised Volume No. 1

Effective Date: 11/20/1997, Docket: RP96-199-012, Status: Effective

Sub First Revised Sheet No. 239 Sub First Revised Sheet No. 239 : Effective

Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 239

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

(Continued)

23. REVISED FIXED TAKE-OR-PAY CHARGES (Continued)

Any increases in take-or-pay principal amounts in

new filings after July 1, 1991 from Natural Gas

Pipeline Company and from Trunkline Gas Company,

to the extent they total more than $1,250,000 and

$1,500,000 respectively, pursuant to final

Commission order, shall be allocated to each of

MRT's former jurisdictional sales Customers based

on the following percentages:

Customer Percentages

Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company 3.50%

Associated Natural Gas Company .06%

Augusta, Arkansas, City of -0-

Bismarck, Missouri, City of -0-

Chester, Illinois, City of -0-

Des Arc, Arkansas, City of .05%

Dupo, Illinois, Village of -0-

Hazen, Arkansas, City of -0-

Illinois Power Company 17.00%

Kaskaskia Gas Company .02%

Laclede Gas Company 0.00%

Natural Gas Improvement Dist. No. 2

of Ashley County, Arkansas -0-

Potosi, Missouri, City of .10%

Red Bud, Illinois, City of .01%

Union Electric Company 1.65%

Waterloo, Illinois, City of .06%

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Total 82.45%

(iv) Any interest amounts billed to MRT by

each upstream pipeline subsequent to the increases

or decreases in base principal amounts provided

for in Section 23(b)(iii) shall be allocated to

each of MRT's former jurisdictional sales

Customers based on a weighted average allocation