Mississippi River Transmission Corp.
Third Revised Volume No. 1
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Effective Date: 05/01/1996, Docket: RP96-199-000, Status: Effective
Second Revised Sheet No. 150 Second Revised Sheet No. 150 : Superseded
Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 150
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS
(Continued)
10. TRANSPORTATION BALANCING (Continued)
(e) Receipt Variance Penalties will not be affected by gas
trading.
(f) Monthly imbalance dollar values will be recalculated
for gas trades. If the applicable transportation or gathering
charges would change because of the gas trade, the trading
Customers will be individually responsible for the resulting
billing adjustment for their individual contracts.
10.6 Operational Balancing Agreements
(a) MRT may enter into Operational Balancing Agreements
(OBAs) with entities whose facilities interconnect with MRT's
facilities. MRT shall negotiate in good faith and enter into such
OBAs with interconnecting entities on a not unduly discriminatory
basis in the basic form of agreement set forth as part of this
tariff or, at MRT's option, in the basic form of agreement set
forth in the interconnecting party's tariff.
(b) MRT shall only enter into OBAs with interconnecting
entities subject to the following conditions:
(i) there is electronic gas measurement or similar
equipment to provide accurate and timely flow information at
the interconnection point;
(ii) the interconnecting entity and MRT must have
been receiving or delivering gas volumes to one another's
system for at least one (1) year without significant and
unresolved imbalance levels; and
(iii) the interconnecting entity must satisfy the
credit criteria set forth in Section 5 of these General
Terms and Conditions.
(c) OBAs will set forth a mutually agreeable procedure for
dealing with imbalances between scheduled flows and actual flows
at the point of interconnection. If and to the extent that an OBA
governs an imbalance at an interconnection point, the Customers