Questar Pipeline Company
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 03/23/2001, Docket: RP01-233-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 99G First Revised Sheet No. 99G : Effective
Superseding: Sub. Original Sheet No. 99G
PART 1
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
service agreement, except a Shipper using capacity acquired
under a capacity-release arrangement, may mutually agree to
convert that service agreement to a service agreement
subject to negotiated rates. If only a portion of the
capacity under any service agreement will be priced at
Negotiated Rates, the original service agreement must first
be bifurcated, and recourse rates will continue to apply to
the service agreement not subject to the Negotiated Rates.
(b) Shipper had access to service pursuant to this
FERC Gas Tariff at the rates set forth on the Statement of
Rates at the time of the execution of the transportation
service agreement implementing negotiated rates.
(c) Questar has filed a tariff sheet advising the
Commission of such agreement. The numbered tariff sheet
will state the exact legal name of the Shipper, the
negotiated rate, other applicable charges, the receipt and
delivery points, the volume of gas to be transported and the
applicable rate schedule for service provided at a
negotiated rate. The tariff sheet will include a statement
affirming that the negotiated-rate agreement does not
deviate in any material aspect from the applicable form of
service agreement or Questar will file the agreement
pursuant to 154.112(b) of the Commission's Regulations.
30.4. Rate Case Treatment.
(a) Subject to the limitations set forth in
subsections (b) and (c) below, Questar shall be allowed to
seek a discount adjustment to the level of its recourse
rates in general rate cases initiated by Questar under
Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act or by others under Section
5 of the Natural Gas Act. Questar 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.