[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 18CFR2.105]

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           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 2_GENERAL POLICY AND INTERPRETATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 2.105  Gas supply charges.

    An interstate natural gas pipeline that transports under part 284 of 
this chapter may include in its tariff a charge, not related to 
facilities, for standing ready to supply gas to sales customers in 
accordance with the following principles:
    (a) The pipeline may not recover take-or-pay or similar charges from 
suppliers by any other means.
    (b) The pipeline must allow its sales customers to nominate levels 
of service freely within their firm sales entitlements or otherwise 
employ a mechanism for the renegotiation of levels of service at regular 
intervals.
    (c) The pipeline must announce prior to nominations by the customers 
a firm price or pricing formula for the service, and hold that price or 
pricing formula firm during the interval arranged in paragraph (b) of 
this section.
    (d) By nominating a new level of service lower than its current 
level, a customer has consented to any abandonment sought by the 
pipeline commensurate with the difference between the current level of 
service and the nominated level.

[Order 500, 52 FR 30352, Aug. 14, 1987; 52 FR 35539, Sept. 22, 1987, and 
54 FR 52394, Dec. 21, 1989]

                     Rules of General Applicability