Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC
Fourth Revised Volume No. 1-B
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Effective Date: 12/28/1999, Docket: GT00- 19-000, Status: Effective
Original Sheet No. 57 Original Sheet No. 57 : Effective
GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR SERVICES - continued
25. ORDER NO. 500/528. FLOW-THROUGH OF PIPELINE SUPPLIERS
BUY-OUT BUY-DOWN BILLINGS.
This section establishes the procedures under which
Transporter will recover from Shippers under
Transporter's Rate Schedules the total
jurisdictional portion of Buyout-Buydown
Obligations paid by Transporter pursuant to
applicable tariff provisions of a former upstream
pipeline supplier, on an as billed basis.
25.2 BASIS OF BILLING.
Unless otherwise approved by the Commission,
Transporter will calculate each affected Shipper's
allocated share of Transporter's fixed charge
Buyout-Buydown Obligation using the same procedures
the upstream pipeline utilized in allocating such cost.
Any refunds related to Buyout-Buydown billings which
Transporter receives will be refunded to Shippers by
Transporter on the same basis as the refund amount was
initially recovered by Transporter from such Shippers.
Any increase or decrease in Buyout-Buydown billings
to Transporter will be flowed-through to Shippers on
the same proportionate basis, to the extent possible,
the increase or decrease was allocated to
Transporter by the applicable upstream pipeline.
25.3 ELECTION TO DELAY BILLING.
Any Shipper notifying Transporter in writing no later
than 30 days after the date of the Commission's order
accepting tariff sheets authorizing the initial fixed
charge billing of its election to do so may delay the
initial billing of the Buyout-Buydown Obligation
applicable to such Shipper until the billing period
specified in the Filing.