Trunkline Gas Company, LLC
Third Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 08/01/2003, Docket: RP03-534-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 303 Original Sheet No. 303 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
26. SETTLEMENT DIRECT BILL SURCHARGE (Continued)
26.5 Billing and Payment
(A) The entire amount of each Buyer's and each affected Shipper's
Settlement Direct Bill Surcharge Amounts shall be due and
payable ten (10) days after Trunkline submits an invoice to
Buyer or Shipper for such amounts. Trunkline shall render
bills hereunder on or after the tenth (10th) day of each
month. Buyer or affected Shipper shall pay Trunkline by
Electronic Funds Transfer to a designated bank account
established by Trunkline for invoiced amounts equal to or
greater than $50,000. For invoiced amounts less than
$50,000, Buyer or affected Shipper shall pay Trunkline by
check to Trunkline's designated Post Office box, or at Buyer
or affected Shipper's election, by Electronic Funds Transfer
to a designated bank account established by Trunkline.
Buyer/Shipper shall pay Trunkline, at its designated Post
Office box, on or before the tenth (10th) day after such
billing the full amount so invoiced. Payments made by
Electronic Funds Transfer shall be considered to have been
made on the date when such payment of good funds is received
by Trunkline. Should Buyer/Shipper fail to pay any amount
which shall become due hereunder, interest thereon shall
accrue at the rate computed using the factors specified in
Section 154.501(d) of the Commission's Regulations, until
such time as the full amount due has been paid or collected.
(B) Each Buyer or affected Shipper shall have the option, in lieu
of a lump sum payment of such amount, of paying sixty (60)
monthly consecutive payments equal to 1/60th of such amount.
Carrying charges on such amounts shall commence on
November 1, 1992 and shall be calculated and included on each
monthly invoice for those Buyers and affected Shippers
electing the sixty (60) month payment option. The amount of
Buyer's or affected Shipper's Settlement Direct Bill
Surcharge which Buyer or affected Shipper may elect to pay in
lieu of paying a lump-sum payment, as provided for herein
shall be stated on Tariff Sheet Nos. 25 and 26 as the same
may be changed from time to time. Carrying charges on unpaid
principal amounts for those Buyers or affected Shippers
electing to extend their payments hereunder shall be