18 C.F.R. § 341.2 Filing requirements.
Title 18 - Conservation of Power and Water Resources
(a) Number of copies. (1) Carriers must file three copies of each tariff publication and a letter of transmittal. (2) Carriers must provide a copy of the tariff publication and any tariff justification to each shipper and subscriber. Carriers must provide these copies by first-class mail or by other means of transmission agreed upon in writing, on or before the same day the tariff publication is transmitted to the Commission for filing. (b) Notice period. All tariff publications (except for suspension supplements, adoption notices, adoption supplements, and tariff indexes) must be filed with the Commission and posted not less than 30, nor more than 60, days prior to the proposed effective date, unless a different notice period is authorized by the Commission. The notice period shall begin the first full day after the tariff publication is filed with the Commission and shall end on the last day prior to the tariff publication effective date. (c) Transmittal letter—(1) Contents. Letters of transmittal must describe the filing and explain any changes to the carrier's rates, rules, terms or conditions of service; state if a waiver is being requested, and specify the statute, section, regulation, policy or order requested to be waived; and identify the tariffs or supplement numbers and the proposed effective date of the tariff publication. Carriers must provide to the Commission, in the letter of transmittal accompanying the filing of a tariff publication containing a joint carrier, the address, phone number, and a contact for each joint carrier listed in the tariff publication. (2) Certification. Letters of transmittal must certify that the filing has been sent to each subscriber of the tariff publication by first-class mail or other agreed-upon means. If there are no subscribers, letters of transmittal must so certify. (3) Acknowledgement. Carriers requesting acknowledgement of the receipt of a filing must submit a duplicate copy of the letter of transmittal marked “Receipt requested.” The request must include a postage paid, self-addressed return envelope. The Commission will return one copy of the letter of transmittal showing the date of receipt. [58 FR 58773, Nov. 4, 1993, as amended by Order 606, 64 FR 44404, Aug. 16, 1999]
Title 18: Conservation of Power and Water Resources
PART 341—OIL PIPELINE TARIFFS: OIL PIPELINE COMPANIES SUBJECT TO SECTION 6 OF THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE ACT
§ 341.2 Filing requirements.
