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Title 18:
Conservation of Power and Water Resources
PART 284—CERTAIN SALES AND TRANSPORTATION OF NATURAL
GAS UNDER THE NATURAL GAS POLICY ACT OF 1978 AND RELATED
AUTHORITIES
Subpart A—General Provisions and
Conditions

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§ 284.12   Standards for pipeline business
operations and communications.

(a) Incorporation by reference of NAESB standards. (1) An
interstate pipeline that transports gas under subparts B or G of this part
must comply with the following business practice and electronic
communication standards promulgated by the North American Energy Standards
Board, which are incorporated herein by reference:

(i) Additional Standards (General Standards, Creditworthiness
Standards, and Gas/Electric Operational Communications Standards) (Version
1.8, September 30, 2006);

(ii) Nominations Related Standards (Version 1.8, September 30,
2006);

(iii) Flowing Gas Related Standards (Version 1.8, September 30,
2006);

(iv) Invoicing Related Standards (Version 1.8, September 30, 2006);

(v) Quadrant Electronic Delivery Mechanism Related Standards (Version
1.8, September 30, 2006) with the exception of Standard 4.3.4;

(vi) Capacity Release Related Standards (Version 1.8, September 30,
2006 (with minor corrections applied December 13, 2006); and

(vii) Internet Electronic Transport Related Standards (Version 1.8,
September 30, 2006) with the exception of Standard 10.3.2.

(2) This incorporation by reference was approved by the Director of the
Federal Register in accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552(a) and 1 CFR part 51.
Copies of these standards may be obtained from the North American Energy
Standards Board, 1301 Fannin, Suite 2350, Houston, TX 77002. Copies may be
inspected at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Public Reference
and Files Maintenance Branch, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426
or at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). For
information on the availability of this material at NARA, call
202–741–6030, or go to:
http://www.archives.gov/federal_register/code_of_federal_regulations/ibr_locations.html.

(b) Business practices and electronic communication requirements
. An interstate pipeline that transports gas under subparts B or G of
this part must comply with the following requirements. The regulations in
this paragraph adopt the abbreviations and definitions contained in the
North American Energy Standards Board Wholesale Gas Quadrant standards
incorporated by reference in paragraph (a)(1) of this section.

(1) Nominations.

(i) Intra-day nominations.

(A) A pipeline must give scheduling priority to an intra-day nomination
submitted by a firm shipper over nominated and scheduled volumes for
interruptible shippers. When an interruptible shipper's scheduled volumes
are to be reduced as a result of an intra-day nomination by a firm
shipper, the interruptible shipper must be provided with advance notice of
such reduction and must be notified whether penalties will apply on the
day its volumes are reduced.

(B) An intra-day nomination submitted on the day prior to gas flow will
take effect at the start of the gas day at 9 a.m. CCT.

(ii) Capacity release scheduling. (A) Pipelines must permit
shippers acquiring released capacity to submit a nomination at the
earliest available nomination opportunity after the acquisition of
capacity. If the pipeline requires the replacement shipper to enter into a
contract, the contract must be issued within one hour after the pipeline
has been notified of the release, but the requirement for contracting must
not inhibit the ability of the replacement shipper to submit a nomination
at the earliest available nomination opportunity.

(B) A pipeline must permit releasing shippers, as a condition of a
capacity release, to recall released capacity and renominate such recalled
capacity at each nomination opportunity. Each replacement shipper must be
provided with advance notice of such recall and must be notified whether
penalties will apply on the day its volumes are reduced.

(2) Flowing gas. (i) Operational balancing agreements. A
pipeline must enter into Operational Balancing Agreements at all points of
interconnection between its system and the system of another interstate or
intrastate pipeline.

(ii) Netting and trading of imbalances. A pipeline must
establish provisions permitting shippers and their agents to offset
imbalances accruing on different contracts held by the shipper with the
pipeline and to trade imbalances with other shippers where such imbalances
have similar operational impact on the pipeline's system.

(iii) Imbalance management. A pipeline with imbalance penalty
provisions in its tariff must provide, to the extent operationally
practicable, parking and lending or other services that facilitate the
ability of its shippers to manage transportation imbalances. A pipeline
also must provide its shippers the opportunity to obtain similar imbalance
management services from other providers and shall provide those shippers
using other providers access to transportation and other pipeline services
without undue discrimination or preference.

(iv) Operational flow orders. A pipeline must take all
reasonable actions to minimize the issuance and adverse impacts of
operational flow orders (OFOs) or other measures taken to respond to
adverse operational events on its system. A pipeline must set forth in its
tariff clear standards for when such measures will begin and end and must
provide timely information that will enable shippers to minimize the
adverse impacts of these measures.

(v) Penalties. A pipeline may include in its tariff
transportation penalties only to the extent necessary to prevent the
impairment of reliable service. Pipelines may not retain net penalty
revenues, but must credit them to shippers in a manner to be prescribed in
the pipeline's tariff. A pipeline with penalty provisions in its tariff
must provide to shippers, on a timely basis, as much information as
possible about the imbalance and overrun status of each shipper and the
imbalance of the pipeline's system.

(3) Communication protocols. (i)(A) All electronic information
provided and electronic transactions conducted by a pipeline must be
provided on the public Internet. A pipeline must provide, upon request,
private network connections using internet tools, internet directory
services, and internet communication protocols and must provide these
networks with non-discriminatory access to all electronic information. A
pipeline may charge a reasonable fee to recover the costs of providing
such an interconnection.

(B) A pipeline must implement this requirement no later than June 1,
2000.

(ii) A pipeline must comply with the following requirements for
documents constituting public information posted on the pipeline web
site:

(A) The documents must be accessible to the public over the public
Internet using commercially available web browsers, without imposition of
a password or other access requirement;

(B) Users must be able to search an entire document online for selected
words, and must be able to copy selected portions of the documents;
and

(C) Documents on the web site should be directly downloadable without
the need for users to first view the documents on the web site.

(iii) If a pipeline uses a numeric or other designation to represent
information, an electronic cross-reference table between the numeric or
other designation and the information represented must be available to
users, at a cost not to exceed reasonable shipping and handling.

(iv) A pipeline must provide the same content for all information
regardless of the electronic format in which it is provided.

(v) A pipeline must maintain, for a period of three years, all
information displayed and transactions conducted electronically under this
section and be able to recover and regenerate all such electronic
information and documents. The pipeline must make this archived
information available in electronic form for a reasonable fee.

(vi) A pipeline must post notices of operational flow orders, critical
periods, and other critical notices on its Internet web site and must
notify affected parties of such notices in either of the following ways to
be chosen by the affected party: Internet E-Mail or direct notification to
the party's Internet URL address.

[Order 587, 61 FR 39068, July 26, 1996]

Editorial Note:   ForFederal Registercitations affecting §284.12, see the List of
CFR Sections Affected, which appears in the Finding Aids section of the
printed volume and on GPO Access.
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