18 Cfr 154.209

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
§ 154.207 Notice requirements.
All proposed changes in tariffs, contracts, or any parts thereof must be
filed with the Commission and posted
not less than 30 days nor more than 60
days prior to the proposed effective
date thereof, unless a waiver of the
time periods is granted by the Commission.
§ 154.208 Service on customers and
other parties.
(a) On or before the filing date, the
company must serve, upon all customers as of the date of the filing and
all affected state regulatory commissions, an abbreviated form of the filing
consisting of: The Letter of Transmittal; the Statement of Nature, Reason, and Basis; the changed tariff
sheets; a summary of the cost-of-service and rate base; and, summary of the
magnitude of the change.
(b) On or before the filing date, the
company must serve a full copy of the
filing upon all customers and state regulatory commissions that have made a
standing request for such service.
(c) Within two business days of receiving a request for a complete copy
from any customer or state commission that has not made a standing request, the company must serve a full
copy of any filing.
(d) A customer or other party may
designate a recipient of service. The
filing company must serve the designated recipient, in accordance with
paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this section, instead of the customer or other
party. For the purposes of this section,
service upon such designated recipient
will be deemed service upon the customer or other party.
[Order 582, 60 FR 52996, Oct. 11, 1995, as
amended by Order 582A, 61 FR 9628, Mar. 11,
1996]

§ 154.209 Form of notice for Federal
Register.
The applicant must include a form of
notice of the application suitable for
publication in the FEDERAL REGISTER
in accordance with the specifications
in § 385.203(d) of this chapter. The form
of notice shall be on electronic media
as specified by the Secretary.
[Order 647, 69 FR 32438, June 10, 2004]

§ 154.301
§ 154.210 Protests, interventions, and
comments.
(a) Unless the notice issued by the
Commission provides otherwise, any
protest, intervention or comment to a
tariff filing made pursuant to this part
must be filed in accordance with
§ 385.211 of this chapter, not later than
12 days after the subject tariff filing. A
protest must state the basis for the objection. A protest will be considered by
the Commission in determining the appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make the protestant a
party to the proceeding. A person wishing to become a party to the proceeding must file a motion to intervene.
(b) Any motion to intervene must be
filed not later than 12 days after the
subject tariff filing in accordance with
§ 385.214 of this chapter.

Subpart D—Material To Be Filed
With Changes
§ 154.301

Changes in rates.

(a) Except for changes in rates pursuant to subparts E, F and G, of this part,
any natural gas company filing for a
change in rates or charges, except for a
minor rate change, must submit, in addition to the material required by subparts A, B, and C of this part, the
Statements and Schedules described in
§ 154.312.
(b) A natural gas company filing for
a minor rate change must file the
Statements and Schedules described in
§ 154.313.
(c) A natural gas company filing for a
change in rates or charges must be prepared to go forward at a hearing and
sustain, solely on the material submitted with its filing, the burden of
proving that the proposed changes are
just and reasonable. The filing and supporting workpapers must be of such
composition, scope, and format as to
comprise the company’s complete casein-chief in the event that the change is
suspended and the matter is set for
hearing. If the change in rates or
charges presented are not in full accord
with any prior Commission decision directly involving the filing company,

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