Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Second Revised Volume No. 1-D
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Effective Date: 12/28/1999, Docket: GT00- 19-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 31 Original Sheet No. 31 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR SERVICES - continued
For the purpose of funding of GRI's approved
expenditures, this Section establishes a GRI Adjustment
Charge to be applicable to Transporter's Rate Schedules
FT-BW and IT-BW, as set forth on Sheet No. 4 of First
Revised Volume No. 1-C of this FERC Gas Tariff;
provided however, such charge shall not be applicable
to Shippers which are interstate pipelines and which
include in their rates a charge for RD&D expenditures,
or to Shippers which pay a charge for RD&D expenditures
to a third party in connection with third party
transportation of gas.
b. BASIS OF THE GRI ADJUSTMENT CHARGE
The Rate Schedules shall include an increment for a GRI
Adjustment Charge for RD&D. Such adjustment charge
shall be that increment, adjusted to Transporter's
pressure base and heating value, if required, which has
been approved by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
orders approving GRI's RD&D expenditures.
c. FILING PROCEDURE
The notice period and proposed effective date of
filings pursuant to this subsection shall be those
permitted under the Commission's Regulations unless,
for a good cause shown, a lesser notice period and
different effective date is allowed by valid Commission
order. Any such filing shall not become effective
unless it becomes effective without suspension or
refund obligation.
VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS MECHANISM
Pursuant to the GRI Settlement approved by FERC order issued
April 29, 1998, at Docket Nos. RP97-149-003, et al., [(83
FERC Para. 61,093 (1998))], Transporter and other pipelines
have agreed to be voluntary collection agents for Shippers who
voluntarily choose to contribute to GRI programs through a
“check-the-box” approach on pipelines’ invoices. The amounts
collected pursuant to the “check-the-box” mechanism will not
be part of Transporter’s jurisdictional rates and the FERC
will not review or approve any such amounts.