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. 251 Original Sheet No. 251 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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40. OPERATIONAL CONTROL
40.1 GENERAL
(a) Trailblazer shall endeavor to maintain adequate
pressure throughout its system and to preserve the overall
operational integrity of its system; provided, however, that
Trailblazer shall not be obligated to buy or sell gas or to install
additional compression or otherwise modify its system for these
purposes. Operating personnel for Shippers and other entities which
are physically taking delivery of gas from Trailblazer or tendering
gas to Trailblazer shall cooperate with Trailblazer in furtherance
of this Section. Each Shipper shall designate the telephone and
telefax numbers of one or more persons [but not more than two (2)
primary and two (2) backup persons] for Trailblazer to contact on
operating matters (including the receipt of Operational Flow Orders
and notices of a Critical Time) at any time, on a 24-hour a day,
365-day a year basis. Such contact persons must have adequate
authority and expertise to deal with such operating matters.
(b) For the purpose of these General Terms and
Conditions, the overall operational integrity of Trailblazer's
system shall encompass the integrity of the physical system and the
preservation of physical assets and their performance, the overall
operating performance of the entire physical system as an entity (or
any portion thereof), and the maintenance (on a reliable and
operationally sound basis) of total system deliverability and the
quality of gas delivered.
40.2 FACILITY CONTROL
Trailblazer shall maintain actual physical and
operational control of all transmission and other facilities on its
system.
40.3 OPERATING PLAN
(a) Trailblazer shall, on an annual or such more
frequent basis as Trailblazer deems necessary for proper operation of
its system, prepare and circulate to all Shippers an Operating Plan.
Such Operating Plan shall set out a plan for operation of the system
on a basis which approaches an optimum level, given ordinary