UNITED GAS PIPE LINE, CO. v. FEDERAL ENERGY REG. COM'N

No. 79-3698.

657 F.2d 790 (1981)

UNITED GAS PIPE LINE COMPANY, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 16, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Johnson, Robert A. Hasty, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Shell Oil Co.

John H. Cheatham, III, Lawrence V. Robertson, Jr., Washington, D. C., for Interstate Natural Gas Assoc.

David Aston, Dallas, Tex., for Atlantic Richfield Co.

William A. Sackmann, Findlay, Ohio, for Marathon Oil Co.

Robert H. Jablon, Washington, D. C., for Utilities Com'n of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., Electricities of N. C., Belmont Mun. Light Dept., Mass., and city of Shrewsbury, Mass., Indiana Mun. Elec. Assoc. et al., the cities of Anaheim, Azusa, Banning and Colton, Cal., and Publicly Owned Systems.

Sandra J. Strebel, Spiegel & McDiarmid, Washington, D. C., for the cities of Anaheim, Azusa, Banning and Colton, Cal., and Publicly Owned Systems.

Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Philip B. Malter, Wheatley & Wollesen, Washington, D. C., for American Public Gas Assn.

Thomas W. Pounds, United Gas Pipe Line Co., Houston, Tex., Irving Jacob Golub, Cecil W. Talley, C. Thomas Biddle, Jr., Houston, Tex., for petitioner United Gas Pipe Line Co.

William A. Major, Jr., Roy R. Robertson, Jr., Southern Natural Gas Co., Birmingham, Ala., Charles J. McClees, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Intervenor Southern Natural Gas Co.

Michael R. Waller, Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Douglas Corbett, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., Houston, Tex., Dale A. Wright, Michael J. McDanold, Littman, Richter, Wright & Talisman, P.C., James J. McDanold, Washington, D. C., for Intervenor Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., a Division of Tenneco Inc.

Brian E. O'Neill, Senior Vice President and Gen. Counsel, Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp., Houston, Tex., Thomas F. Ryan, Jr., Joseph A. Cannon, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Jones, Robert G. Hardy, Washington, D. C., for petitioner Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

William W. Brackett, Daniel F. Collins, Brackett & Collins, P.C., Charles V. Shannon, Washington, D. C., for Michigan Wisconsin Pipe Line Co.

Tom Burton, Carolyn S. Hazel, Houston, Tex., for Continental Oil Co.

John L. Williford, Larry Pain, C. J. Roberts, Bartlesville, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co.

Lauren Eaton, A. Paul Brandimarte, Jr., Lawrence E. Glenn, Robert W. Fuller, Jeffrey G. Shrader, Houston, Tex., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Arthur S. Berner, Houston, Tex., for Inexco Oil Co.

Michael B. Silva, Phyllis Rainey, Houston, Tex., for Tenneco Oil Co.

Charles J. Holland, Jr., Becky A. McGee, James D. Olsen, Thomas Deal, Dallas, Tex., for Sun Oil Co.

Baker & Botts, Houston, Tex., for petitioner United Gas Pipeline Co.

Martin N. Erck, C. Roger Hoffman, Douglas Rasch, Houston, Tex., for Exxon Corp.

Gordon Gooch, Charles M. Darling, IV, Charles E. Suffling, Washington, D. C., for General American Oil Co. of Tex., Pennzoil Producing Co., Pennzoil Oil & Gas, Inc., Pennzoil Louisiana and Texas Offshore, Inc., Pogo Producing Co. and Tenneco Oil Co.

Jere G. Hayes, Robert C. Murray, Dallas, Tex., for General American Oil Co. of Texas, Pennzoil Producing Co., Pennzoil Oil & Gas, Inc., Pennzoil Louisiana and Texas Offshore, Inc. and Pogo Producing Co.

Patricia A. Curran, Julie Langdon, Houston, Tex., for Pennzoil Co., Pennzoil Producing Co., Pennzoil Oil & Gas, Inc., Pennzoil Louisiana and Texas Offshore, Inc. and Pogo Producing Co.

Edward J. Kremer, Albert D. Hoppe, Dallas, Tex., for Arco Oil and Gas Co. Division of Atlantic Richfield Co.

Neal Powers, Jr., Rosemarie Morse, Butler, Binion, Rice, Cook & Knapp, Houston, Tex., for Cockrell Oil Corp.

Herman E. Garner, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Conoco Inc.

Robert D. Haworth, Letitia Z. Taitte, Charles J. McClees, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Mobil Oil Corp., Mobil Producing Texas and New Mexico, Inc., Mobil Oil Exploration and Producing Southeast Inc., Northern Natural Gas Producing Co.

Karen A. Berndt, Ralph J. Pearson, Jr., Robert P. Thibault, John A. Ramsey, Houston, Tex., Paul J. Broyles, for Texaco Inc.

Kenneth L. Riedman, Jr., Lois Ellen Gold, Los Angeles, Cal., Victor E. Fitzmaurice, Washington, D. C., for Union Oil Co. of California.

Robert R. Nordhaus, Gen. Counsel, Jerome Nelson, Sol., J. Paul Douglas, Jane C. Murphy, Atty., Washington, D. C., for respondent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

Before HENDERSON and SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and MAHON, District Judge.


HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from a series of orders1 issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as the "Commission") announcing changes in the regulations2 dealing with interest on refunds required to be made by regulated companies3 to their customers.

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