Northern Border Pipeline Company

First Revised Volume No. 1

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Effective Date: 04/01/2004, Docket: RP04-205-000, Status: Effective

Original Sheet No. 193 Original Sheet No. 193 : Effective

RATE SCHEDULE TPB

THIRD PARTY BALANCING SERVICE

1. AVAILABILITY

1.1 Availability of Service

This Rate Schedule is available to any party (hereafter

called "Balancing Provider") desiring Third Party Balancing

Service provided that:

(a) Balancing Provider has entered into a Third Party

Balancing Service Agreement ("Agreement") in the form

contained in Company's Tariff for service under this

Rate Schedule.

(b) Balancing Provider provides Company with names and

methods of communicating, on a twenty-four (24) hour,

three hundred sixty-five (365) day basis, with persons

who are employed or retained by Balancing Provider and

whom Company can contact for purposes of managing the

balancing service.

1.2 Limitation on Availability Service

Third-Party Balancing Service under Rate Schedule TPB shall

be limited, on a daily basis, to the total aggregate

quantity of gas scheduled by Balancing Provider at the

Balanced Point on a Gas Day.

2. APPLICABILITY AND CHARACTER OF SERVICE

2.1 Applicability

This Rate Schedule shall apply to Third Party Balancing

Services where Company has entered into a Third Party

Balancing Service Agreement with a Balancing Provider for

the purpose of balancing natural gas quantities on

Company's system at a Variable Load Point. Balancing

Provider shall either be physically connected to Company's

system or have firm contractual rights to capacity at an

interconnect with Company's system. At the request and

under the direction of Balancing Provider, Company will

manage the Third Party Balancing Service.