Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, LP
THIRD REVISED VOLUME NO. 1
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Effective Date: 06/30/2004, Docket: RP04-321-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 304 Original Sheet No. 304 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
18. PERIODIC RATE ADJUSTMENTS AND SURCHARGES
Periodically rates and charges under Panhandle's FERC Gas
Tariff shall be adjusted to reflect changes in Panhandle's
expenditures for Take-or-Pay, the Gas Research Institute, the Annual
Charge Adjustment, the Applicable Surcharge Adjustments and the
Transition Cost Recovery Mechanism. Such expenditures shall include
both expenditures chargeable to operations as well as expenditures
includable in rate base. Panhandle and Shipper recognize that
Panhandle shall from time to time experience changes in costs related
to providing service under this FERC Gas Tariff, including, but not
limited to, changes in the cost of labor, benefits, materials and
supplies, taxes, and required rate of return, costs associated with
the resolution of past disputes or outstanding uncertainties
concerning amounts owed by Panhandle or attributable to Panhandle,
and costs generated by decisions by the Commission, the courts or by
an arbitration panel or other body having jurisdiction over
Panhandle. It may be appropriate, equitable and consistent with cost
responsibility to allocate such costs among Shippers based on or
taking into account past period factors, such as contract demand
levels, purchases or other factors related to a prior period of time.
Panhandle shall have the right from time to time to make rate change
filings which may include such costs and utilize an allocation
methodology based in whole or in part on factors related to past
periods. Specific allocation methodologies will be determined when
Panhandle submits a filing to recover any of the aforesaid costs.
Shipper shall have the right to intervene and protest any such
filings.