National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation
Fourth Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 04/21/2010, Docket: RP10-504-000, Status: Effective
First Revised Sheet No. 132 First Revised Sheet No. 132
Superseding: Original Sheet No. 132
ISS RATE SCHEDULE
Interruptible Storage Service
4. STORAGE FIELD LOSSES
In the event of a loss of gas from one or more storage fields utilized
by Transporter resulting from force majeure, such loss shall be
allocated among Transporter and each Shipper receiving service under
FSS, SS-1, SS-2, ESS or ISS Rate Schedule in proportion to the
quantities of gas (excluding base gas) of each in storage immediately
prior thereto as reasonably determined by Transporter, and if such
extraordinary loss exceeds the top gas balances of Transporter and all
such Shippers, such excess will be deemed from Transporter's base gas.
Losses of gas from storage fields utilized by Transporter that are not
losses resulting from force majeure, as defined below, will be deemed
to be gas from Transporter's top gas balance, and, to the extent such
losses exceed Transporter's top gas balance, such excess will be deemed
to be from Transporter's base gas. For purposes of this Section 4, a
loss of gas resulting from force majeure is a loss caused by any acts
of God, strikes, lockouts, acts of the public enemy, wars, blockades,
insurrections, riots, epidemics, landslides, lightning, earthquakes,
fires, storms, floods, washouts, arrests and restraints of rulers and
peoples, civil disturbances, explosions, breakage or accident to
machinery or lines of pipe, line freeze-ups, or similar causes.
Shipper is placed on notice that Transporter may recognize storage gas
losses for rate and accounting purposes. Such losses shall be valued
at the current replacement cost of gas. After accounting recognition
of any such loss, Transporter shall record and maintain a regulatory
asset account which shall be maintained until Transporter's next
general rate change filing under Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act. In
any of Transporter's general rate change filings, Transporter may
propose to amortize storage gas losses through its base rates. This
provision shall apply to storage gas losses incurred but unamortized as
of the date upon which this provision becomes effective, and to those
incurred after that date.