[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR154.402]

[Page 496-497]
 
           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 154_RATE SCHEDULES AND TARIFFS--Table of Contents
 
                     Subpart E_Limited Rate Changes
 
Sec. 154.402  ACA expenditures.

    (a) Requirements. Upon approval by the Commission, a natural gas 
pipeline

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company may adjust its rates, annually, to recover from its customers 
annual charges assessed by the Commission under part 382 of this chapter 
pursuant to an annual charge adjustment clause (ACA clause). The ACA 
clause must be filed with the Commission and indicate the amount of 
annual charges to be flowed through per unit of energy sold or 
transported (ACA unit charge). The ACA unit charge will be specified by 
the Commission at the time the Commission calculates the annual charge 
bills. A company must reflect the ACA unit charge in each of its rate 
schedules applicable to sales or transportation deliveries. The company 
must apply the ACA unit charge to the usage component of rate schedules 
with two-part rates. A company may recover annual charges through an ACA 
unit charge only if its rates do not otherwise reflect the costs of 
annual charges assessed by the Commission under Sec. 382.106(a) of this 
chapter. The applicable annual charge, required by Sec. 382.103 of this 
chapter, must be paid before the company applies the ACA unit charge.
    (b) Application for Rate Treatment Authorization. A company seeking 
authorization to use an ACA unit charge must file with the Commission a 
separate ACA tariff sheet containing:
    (1) A statement that the company is collecting an ACA per unit 
charge, as approved by the Commission, applicable to all the pipeline's 
sales and transportation schedules,
    (2) The per unit charge of the ACA,
    (3) The proposed effective date of the tariff change (30 days after 
the filing of the tariff sheet, unless a shorter period is specifically 
requested in a waiver petition and approved), and
    (4) A statement that the pipeline will not recover any annual 
charges recorded in FERC Account 928 in a proceeding under subpart D of 
this part.
    (c) Changes to the ACA unit charge must be filed annually, to 
reflect the annual charge unit rate authorized by the Commission each 
fiscal year.