Ozark Gas Transmission, L. L. C.
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 11/01/2008, Docket: RP08-617-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 154 Original Sheet No. 154
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS (continued)
17.2 Transporter may waive from time to time, at its discretion,
all or a portion of the monetary reimbursement requirement set
forth in Section 17.1 if it determines that construction of the
facilities would be economic to Transporter, based on Shipper
assurance of transportation throughput through the proposed
facilities and other matters, as described below. All requests
for waiver shall be handled by Transporter in a manner which is
not unduly discriminatory. For purposes of determining whether a
project is economic, Transporter will evaluate projects on the
basis of various economic criteria, which may include, without
limitation, the estimated incremental Transportation throughput;
cost of the facilities: operating, maintenance, administrative and
general expenses attributable to the facilities; the system net
revenues (excluding FERC ACA charges) Transporter estimates will
be generated subsequent to such construction; and the availability
of capital funds on terms and conditions acceptable to
Transporter. In estimating the system net revenues to be
generated, Transporter will evaluate the existence of capacity
limitations of the existing facilities, the marketability of the
capacity, the location of the markets, the nature of the
Transportation service, and other factors which impact the
utilization of Transporter's system. Transporter will consider
throughput to be incremental if the quantities that will be
transported would not otherwise flow through Transporter's system.
17.3 If Shipper is required to pay all or a portion of the total
cost of new facilities, Shipper's payment of the cost of the new
facilities shall be calculated on the basis of the full cost of
the new facilities, the tax burden to Transporter or its owners
created by Shipper's payment of such costs to Transporter, as well
as the tax-on-tax effect generated by such payment. The allowance
for income tax reimbursement shall be computed by taking into
consideration three elements: (1) the current taxes on the
"contribution in aid of construction" ("CIAC"), less (2) the
present value (computed using a discount rate equal to
Transporter's overall rate of return) of future tax deductions for
depreciation that will be available from the constructed
facilities, plus (3) the tax-on-tax effect of the first two
elements, all of which should be computed through use of tax rates
that are in effect when the contributions are received, i.e., Tax
Reimbursement = (Tax Rate x(CIAC-Present Value of Tax
Depreciation)) x (1 + (Tax Rate/(1-Tax Rate))). The present value
of the tax benefit provided by the future depreciation of plant
shall be determined by Transporter.