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Sixth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 01/01/2008, Docket: RP08- 77-000, Status: Effective
Third Revised Sheet No. 1407 Third Revised Sheet No. 1407 : Effective
Superseding: Second Revised Sheet No. 1407
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Section 7
(Continued)
7.4 Requests for Service
Submittal - A request for service shall be submitted to Gulf
South by fax to (713) 479-1020 or by mail to P.O. Box 1478,
Houston, Texas 77251-1478, Attention: Customer Service
Department. The information required to process a service
request is specified in Section 7.5 hereof. Gulf South's Service
Request Form is made available to all parties on its Internet Web
Site. A Customer that elects the Summer Season Option may, in
its request for service, request service for multiple sequential
Summer Seasons. All other requests for firm service must be for
consecutive time periods.
Valid Request for Service Requirements - A valid request for
service shall contain all information specified in Section 7.5. A
request will not be considered to be valid until a Customer has
met the credit / security requirements of Section 5 of these
General Terms and Conditions. Except as provided below, a valid
request for service cannot be received more than ninety (90) days
prior to the commencement of service. A request for service can
however be received and processed more than 90 days prior to the
commencement of service if the request is associated with an open
season, new supply being attached to Gulf South's system,
termination of an existing contract on another pipeline,
construction of new facilities is required to serve a new receipt
or delivery point or the modification of facilities that will
result in a material increase in gas usage or production. In
addition, an existing firm transportation Customer that does not
have a right of first refusal for its capacity can request to
extend its contract subject to (1) the availability of firm
capacity, (2) negotiation of transportation rate and (3) the
posting and bidding requirements of 7.4(a). A Customer
submitting a request more than 90 days before service commences
shall submit to Gulf South written evidence that one of the above
conditions exist.
Request for Service Processing - Each request for service
received by Gulf South will be logged based upon the date and
time received. This log will include all requests for service
and is referred to herein as the "Transportation Queue" or
"Queue." The Transportation Queue is used to track each request
for service and to ensure that requests for service for competing
firm capacity requests are evaluated on a first-come, first-serve
basis. A Customer who submits incomplete or unsubstantiated
information will be removed from the Queue if such information is