GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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24. ANNUAL CHARGE ADJUSTMENT ("ACA")


 

24.1 Application. This Section of the GT&Cs is filed pursuant to Section

382.202 of the FERC Rules and Regulations and Order No. 472. This

Section authorizes Pipeline to recover from Shippers the annual

charge assessed to Pipeline by the Commission for Commission

budgetary expenses. Pipeline shall recover this charge by assessing,

in addition to Pipeline's transportation rates, a per unit rate

equivalent to the per Dth charge assessed against Pipeline by the

Commission. When Pipeline provides services to Shipper under

multiple transaction arrangements on Pipeline's system, Pipeline will

assess the ACA charge only once on the same quantities of gas.


 

24.2 Definitions


 

(a) Effective Date. Pipeline shall adjust its ACA Charge

annually to be effective each October 1.


 

(b) Unit Rate. Pipeline's unit rate shall be the unit rate

used by the Commission to determine the annual

assessment to Pipeline adjusted, as appropriate, to a

thermal basis.


 

(c) Affected Rate Schedules. The affected rate schedules

are all Rate Schedules contained in Pipeline's FERC Gas

Tariff and all services performed under the Commission's

Regulations.


 

24.3 Procedures to Determine ACA Charge Unit Rate. Pipeline shall

determine the ACA Charge Unit Rate by using the unit rate used by

the Commission to determine Pipeline's annual charge adjustment and

adjust such rate, as appropriate, to a thermal basis. Pipeline

shall round such Unit Rate to the nearest one-hundredth of one cent

($0.0001).


 

24.4 Changes to the ACA Charge must be filed annually to reflect the

annual charge Unit Rate authorized by the Commission each fiscal

year and are subject to the notice requirements of Section 154.22 of

the Commission's Rules and Regulations.