COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORP. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 88-1701, 88-1808, 88-1825, 89-1052, 89-1086, 89-1140, 89-1186 and 89-1200.

895 F.2d 791 (1990)

COLUMBIA GAS TRANSMISSION CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, General Service Customer Group, Indiana Gas Company, Inc., Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company, The Kansas Power and Light Company, Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided February 9, 1990.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied April 19, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Small, Boston, Mass., with whom John H. Pickering, Timothy N. Black, Neal T. Kilminister, Susan D. McAndrew, and Richard E. Gottlieb (for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.), Jeffrey M. Petrash, Washington, D.C., (for Michigan Consol. Gas Co.), Robert A. MacDonnell, Philadelphia, Pa., and Kathleen A. Kane (for Philadelphia Elec. Co.) were on the joint brief, for listed petitioners in Nos. 88-1701, 88-1808, 89-1052, 89-1086, and 89-1200.

Philip B. Malter, with whom Charles F. Wheatley, Jr. was on the brief, for petitioner Municipal Defense Group in Nos. 88-1825 and 89-1140.

Raymond N. Shibley and Marlene L. Stein, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for petitioner Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. in No. 89-1186.

Frederic J. Georg entered an appearance for petitioner Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., and James H. Holt, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for petitioner Michigan Consol. Gas Co.

Jill Hall, Atty., F.E.R.C. ("FERC"), with whom Catherine C. Cook, Gen. Counsel, and Jerome M. Feit, Solicitor, FERC, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for respondent in all cases. Frank Lindh, Washington, D.C., and Joseph S. Davies, Attys., FERC, also entered appearances for respondent.

Raymond N. Shibley, with whom Marlene L. Stein (for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co.), Robert G. Hardy and Michael J. Fremuth (for Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.), Douglas Field, Jr. and Robert W. Perdue, Washington, D.C., (for Texas Gas Transmission Corp.) were on the joint brief, for intervenors in Nos. 88-1701, 88-1808, 88-1825, 89-1052, 89-1086, 89-1140, and 89-1200.

William H. Penniman (for Process Gas Consumers Group) and Mary E. Baluss and Marilyn A. Specht, Washington, D.C., (for UGI Corp.) were on the joint brief for intervenors in Nos. 89-1052, 89-1086, 89-1140 and 89-1200. Christopher J. Barr, Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for UGI Corp.

Martin J. Bregman, Topeka, Kan., and Steven J. Kalish, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor Kansas Power and Light Co. in Nos. 88-1701, 88-1808, and 88-1825.

Before BUCKLEY, D.H. GINSBURG, and SENTELLE, Circuit Judges.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied in No. 88-1701 April 19, 1990.

Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge BUCKLEY.

BUCKLEY, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated cases concern the assertion, by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, of the power to approve a retroactive rate increase through exercise of its authority, under section 4(d) of the Natural Gas Act, to waive the thirty days' notice required by that section. As we find that the Commission...

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