Trailblazer Pipeline Company
Fourth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 12/28/2007, Docket: RP08-168-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 24 Original Sheet No. 24 : Effective
RATE SCHEDULE FTS
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5.8 REVENUE CREDITING MECHANISM
(a) Under its Amended Stipulation and Agreement in Docket
No. RP97-408 (Amended Stipulation and Agreement), Trailblazer agreed to
implement a revenue crediting mechanism ("RCM") under which Trailblazer
shall passback revenues attributable to firm transportation agreements of
less than one year in length (short-term revenues) as set forth below.
Overrun revenues under firm transportation agreements of less than one (1)
year represent interruptible revenues, a representative level of which was
included in the development of Trailblazer's rates, and are excluded from
the definition of short-term revenues.
(b) Trailblazer shall retain the first $1.4 million of
short-term revenues collected in each twelve-month period defined in (c)
occurring during the term of the Amended Stipulation and Agreement. For
short-term revenues collected in excess of $1.4 million but less than $2.4
million annually, Trailblazer shall passback 50 percent of such revenues
to firm Shippers with transportation agreements having a term of one (1)
year or more (long-term firm Shippers). For short-term revenues collected
in excess of $2.4 million, Trailblazer shall passback 65 percent of those
revenues to long-term firm Shippers.
(c) The RCM shall commence with the effective date of the
Amended Stipulation and Agreement and shall terminate concurrently with
the end of the day on December 31, 2002. Within 90 days after the
conclusion of the first twelve-month period and each succeeding twelve-
month period during the term of the Amended Stipulation and Agreement,
Trailblazer shall allocate short-term revenues based on each long-term
firm Shipper's pro-rata share of contract demand entitlements during the
applicable twelve-month period. Any short-term revenues allocated to
long-term firm Shippers who are classified as being a Contesting Party to
Trailblazer's Amended Stipulation and Agreement will be retained by
Trailblazer. All other applicable short-term revenues will be subject to
passback to the remaining long-term firm Shippers based on the allocation
method described herein. In the event the Amended Stipulation and
Agreement shall expire prior to the end of a twelve-month period, the
tiers and crediting formula set forth above shall be pro-rated to account
for the partial year.
(d) In applying the RCM, Trailblazer shall not take into
account any revenue under Expansion 2002 Agreements, or any Agreement to
which Expansion 2002 Recourse Rates are applicable. Trailblazer shall not
allocate any revenues for pass back to Expansion 2002 Shippers, or to any
Agreement to which Expansion 2002 Recourse Rates are applicable.