Questar Pipeline Company
First Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 06/21/2005, Docket: RP05-349-000, Status: Effective
Second Revised Sheet No. 99H Second Revised Sheet No. 99H : Effective
Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 99H
PART 1
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
(b) The following measures shall serve to limit inappropriate cost
shifting from negotiated-rate services to recourse-rate services:
(i) A discount adjustment to recourse rates shall only be
allowed to the extent that Questar can meet the standards required of an
affiliate discount adjustment, including requiring that Questar shall have the
burden of proving that any discount granted is required to meet competition.
(ii) Questar shall be required to demonstrate that any
discount adjustment does not have an adverse impact on recourse-rate shippers.
Questar may comply with item (ii) above by:
1. Demonstrating that, in the absence of Questar's entering
into the negotiated-rate agreement, Questar would not have been able to
contract for the related capacity at any higher rate, and that recourse rates
would otherwise be as high or higher than recourse rates that result after
applying the discount adjustment; or
2. Making another comparable showing that the negotiated
rate contributes more to fixed costs on the system than could have been
achieved without the negotiated rate.
(c) Questar shall also have the right to seek discount
adjustments in future rate cases at the greater of (a) the negotiated-rate
revenues received, or (b) the discounted recourse-rate revenues that otherwise
would have been received under a pre-existing Part 284 service agreement.
30.5 Bidding for Firm Capacity. Questar and Shipper may negotiate,
and post for competitive bidding, a rate that exceeds the applicable maximum
reservation rate. If competing bids under § 5 of the General Terms and
Conditions reflect different rate forms, i.e., negotiated rates vs. recourse
rates, Questar shall award the capacity, or portion, using the evaluation
criteria of § 5 of these General Terms and Conditions; the negotiated
reservation