Pacific Gas Transmission Company

First Revised Volume No. 1-A

 Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index

Effective Date: 08/01/2000, Docket: MT00- 9-000, Status: Effective

Fourth Revised Sheet No. 85 Fourth Revised Sheet No. 85 : Effective

Superseding: Third Revised Sheet No. 85

TRANSPORTATION GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

(Continued)

22. ANNUAL CHARGE ADJUSTMENT (ACA) PROVISION

22.1 Purpose: PG&E GT-NW shall recover from Shippers the annual charge

assessedto PG&E GT-NW by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

for budgetary expenses pursuant to Section 154.38(d)(6) of the

Commission's regulations and Order No. 472 issued May 29, 1987.

PG&E GT-NW shall recover this charge by means of an Annual Charge

Adjustment (ACA); a per unit rate equivalent to the unit rate

assessed against PG&E GT-NW by the Commission shall be included in

PG&E GT-NW's transportation rates. (During the period that this ACA

provision is in effect, PG&E GT-NW shall not recover in a Natural

Gas Act Section 4 rate case annual charges recorded in FERC Account

No. 928 assessed to PG&E GT-NW by the Commission pursuant to Order

No. 472.)

22.2 Filing Procedure: The notice period and proposed effective

date of filings pursuant to this paragraph shall be as

permitted under Section 4 of the Natural Gas Act; provided,

however, that any such filing shall not become effective unless

they become effective without suspension or refund obligation.

22.3 ACA Unit Rate Adjustment: PG&E GT-NW's ACA unit rate shall be the

unit rate used by the Commission to determine the annual charge

assessment to PG&E GT-NW, and shall be reflected in the Statement

of Effective Rates and Charges of this FERC Gas Tariff First

Revised Volume No. 1-A.

22.4 Affected Rate Schedules: The ACA provision shall apply to all

rate schedules contained in PG&E GT-NW's FERC Gas Tariff First

revised Volume No. 1-A.

23. SHARED OPERATING PERSONNEL AND FACILITIES

PG&E GT-NW does not share any operating personnel or facilities

with its Marketing Affiliates. To the extent PG&E elects service

under Rate Schedule USS-1, PG&E GT-NW employees involved with the

implementation of USS-1 service will operate independently from

PG&E GT-NW's pipeline operating employees.

(Continued)