18 C.F.R. § 154.402 ACA expenditures.
Title 18 - Conservation of Power and Water Resources
(a) Requirements. Upon approval by the Commission, a natural gas pipeline 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 §382.106(a) of this chapter. The applicable annual charge, required by §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.
Title 18: Conservation of Power and Water Resources
PART 154—RATE SCHEDULES AND TARIFFS
Subpart E—Limited Rate Changes
§ 154.402 ACA expenditures.
