PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF N.C., INC. v. F.E.R.C.

No. 87-4577.

851 F.2d 1548 (1988)

PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NORTH CAROLINA, INC., North Carolina Natural Gas Corp., the Zone 3 Customer Group, and North Carolina Utilities Commission, Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 17, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Kent Burns, Boyce, Mitchell, Burns & Smith, Raleigh, N.C., Donald W. McCoy, McCoy, Weaver, Wiggins, Cleveland & Raper, Fayetteville, N.C., Alan A. Parr, McTernan, Parr & Rumage, New Orleans, La., Gregory Grady, Richard H. Davidson, Washington, D.C., for Public Service Co. of North Carolina, Inc., and North Carolina Natural Gas Corp.

William I. Harkaway, Steven J. Kalish, McCarthy, Sweeney & Harkaway, P.C., Washington, D.C., for Consol. Edison Co. of New York.

David L. Konick, Dullen & Dykman, Washington, D.C., for Brooklyn Union Gas Co.

John T. Miller, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Eliazbethtown Gas Co.

Herbert J. Martin, Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for Eastern Shore Nat'l Gas Co.

William G. Broaddus, Stephen H. Watts, II, Richmond, Va., for Com. Gas Pipeline Corp.

Thomas F. Ryan, Jr., Robert G. Hardy, Michael J. Fremuth, Washington, D.C., for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

Stanley M. Morley, Paul W. Diehl, Washington, D.C., for Sun Refining and Marketing Co.

James F. Bowe, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Long Island.

R. Brian Corcoran, Washington, D.C., for Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp.

Richard A. Solomon, and David D'Alessandro, Washington, D.C., for The Public Service Com'n of the State of New York.

John S. Schmid, Barbara K. Heffernan, Washington, D.C., for Delmarva Power & Light Co.

James R. Lacey, Newark, N.J., for Public Service Elec. and Gas Co.

Morton L. Simons, Simons & Simons, Washington, D.C., for North Carolina Utilities Com'n.

Frank H. Strickler, Gordon M. Grant, Robert B. Evans, Washington, D.C., for Washington Gas Light Co.

Stephen J. Small, William E. Mohler, III, Charleston, W. Va., for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.

John E. Holtzinger, Jr., John T. Stough, Jr., Washington, D.C., for Atlanta Gas Light Co.

Kevin J. Lipson, Washington, D.C., for Consol. Gas Transmission Corp.

Glenn W. Letham, Kenneth M. Albert, Washington, D.C., for Pennsylvania Gas and Water Co.

Glen S. Howard, Washington, D.C., for Process Gas Consumers Group and American Iron and Steel Institute.

William I. Harkaway, Steven J. Kalish, Washington, D.C., for The Zone 3 Customer Group.

A. Hewitt Rose, Sarah C. Carey, Washington, D.C., for Northeast Georgia Gas Section of the Georgia Municipal Ass'n.

Jerry W. Amos, Greensboro, N.C., for Piedmont Natural Gas Co., Inc.

James J. Stoker, III, Long Island Lighting Co., Hicksville, N.Y., for Long Island Lighting Co.

Robert A. MacDonnell, Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Kippel, Philadelphia, Pa., for Philadelphia Electric Co.

George L. Weber, Washington, D.C., for Nat'l Fuel Gas Supply Corp.

Frank P. Saponaro, Jr., Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Washington, D.C., for Philadelphia Gas Works.

Joseph M. Oliver, Jr., Crowell & Moring, Washington, D.C., for South Jersey Gas Co.

Jerome Feit, Sol., F.E.R.C., Joanne Leveque, Mary E. Baluss, Washington, D.C., for F.E.R.C.

Before GARZA, JOHNSON, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission found zone rates on a major gas pipeline to be unjust, unreasonable, and discriminatory, and, pursuant to the Natural Gas Act, the Commission ordered a change in transmission cost allocation. Pipeline customers challenge the FERC's directive as well as the Commission's determination of the date on which the change is to be effective. We reject the challenges and affirm.

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