Legal Resources Major Orders & Regulations Restructuring of Pipeline Services

This rule:


• Requires pipelines to unbundle (i.e., separate) their sales services from their transportation services.
• Issues blanket sales certificates to pipelines so that they can offer unbundled firm and interruptible sales services at market-based rates.
• Includes a new unbundled "no-notice", firm transportation service, firm transportation service that is unbundled and improved in quality, unbundled storage services, and interruptible transportation services, among others.
• Amends Section 284.221(d) of the Commission's Regulations to allow pregranted abandonment for interruptible and short-term (one year or less) firm transportation, and for long term (over one year) firm transportation under certain conditions.
• Modifies the terms of existing capacity brokering programs to conform to a generic capacity releasing program.


• Order No. 636;
• Order No. 636-A;
• Order No. 636-B; and
• Order No. 636-C


• GAO Report , November 1993