Questar Overthrust Pipeline Company
Second Revised Volume No. 1-A
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Effective Date: 04/25/2007, Docket: RP07-360-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 111 Original Sheet No. 111 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
aspect from the applicable form of service agreement or Overthrust will file
the agreement pursuant to § 154.112(b) of the Commission's Regulations.
31.4. Rate Case Treatment.
(a) Subject to the limitations set forth in subsections (b) and
(c) below, Overthrust shall be allowed to seek a discount adjustment to the
level of its recourse rates in general rate cases initiated by Overthrust
under Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act or by others under Section 5 of the
Natural Gas Act. Overthrust shall be allowed to seek inclusion of negotiated
rates in discount adjustments whenever the negotiated rate is below the
posted maximum rate under the applicable rate schedule for all or part of the
12-month base period and/or the nine-month rate case adjustment period.
However, if the negotiated rates were not in effect during the base period,
the negotiated rates may still be included in a discount adjustment when they
are projected to be in effect at a level below the otherwise applicable
maximum recourse rate as of the end of the nine-month rate adjustment period.
(b) The following measures shall serve to limit inappropriate
cost shifting from negotiated-rate services to recourse-rate services:
(i) A discount adjustment to recourse rates shall only be
allowed to the extent that Overthrust can meet the standards required of an
affiliate discount adjustment, including requiring that Overthrust shall have
the burden of proving that any discount granted is required to meet
competition.
(ii) Overthrust shall be required to demonstrate that any
discount adjustment does not have an adverse impact on recourse-rate
shippers.
Overthrust may comply with item (ii) above by:
1. Demonstrating that, in the absence of Overthrust's
entering into the negotiated-rate agreement, Overthrust would not have been
able to contract for the related capacity at any higher rate, and that
recourse rates would otherwise be as high or higher than recourse rates that
result after applying the discount adjustment; or