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Have you guys met/discussed this with Michele? Please get me up to speed.
Thanks DF ---------------------- Forwarded by Drew Fossum/ET&S/Enron on 08/24/2000 09:54 AM --------------------------- Michele Winckowski 08/17/2000 01:39 PM To: Drew Fossum/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Mary Kay Miller/ET&S/Enron@Enron, Maria Pavlou/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Dari Dornan/ET&S/Enron@Enron, Glen Hass/ET&S/Enron@Enron cc: Keith Petersen/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Jeffery Fawcett/ET&S/Enron@ENRON, Susan Scott/ET&S/Enron@ENRON Subject: Re: Caithness Big Sandy, LLC. Project As you are aware, Transwestern is working with a shipper to potentially provide service to a new power plant located approximately 40 miles off the mainline in Arizona. Although, the final negotiation are not complete certain options are being evaluated, I need some assistance in interpreting the regulations regarding the authority we should use for approval of this project. The facilities that would be constructed include a delivery point and approximately 40 miles of pipe. As these facilities are non-mainline, it may be possible to construct the proposed facilities under the prior notice provisions of TW's blanket certificate, provided the project satisfies the blanket criteria (generally costs and environmental). With this in mind, I have the following issues and questions: Preliminarily, marketing is thinking that we may want to develop an incremental rate to recover the cost of the project. Would a new incremental rate for this service impact our ability to file for approval under the prior notice provisions? Note: Generally, Subpart F of Part 157 (blanket regulations) does not address service issues as transportation service is provided under Part 284 of the Commission's regulations. However, the regulations (o157.204) set forth Who may apply for a blanket certificate. The criteria includes, among other things, any interstate pipeline that has rates accepted by the Commission. Therefore, would an incremental rate have to be approved by the Commission before the proposed facilities would be blanket eligible? Can a new incremental rate be established through a limit-section 4 rate filing or is a case-specific certificate required? As the facilities will not include any mainline expansion - Is an open season required for the project? My opinion is "NO". Do you agree? Your thoughts and assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thanks MW
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