TEJAS POWER CORP. v. F.E.R.C.

Nos. 89-1267, et al.

908 F.2d 998 (1990)

TEJAS POWER CORPORATION, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 24, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph C. Bell, with whom John M. Hopper, Jr., for Tejas Power Corp., Philip M. Marston and Robert Y. Hirasuna, for Hadson Gas Systems, Inc., and Frances McD. Kilborne, for Texaco, Inc., were on the joint brief, for petitioners Tejas Power Corp., et al., in 89-1267, 89-1294, 89-1310, and 89-1379, and intervenors in 89-1373 and 89-1392. Ralph J. Pearson, Jr., and David Lindberg, for Texaco, Inc., also entered appearances, for petitioners.

William H. Penniman, with whom Sterling H. Smith, for Process Gas Consumers Group and American Iron and Steel Institute, were on the joint brief, for petitioners Tejas Power Corp., et al., in 89-1379, and intervenors in 89-1267, 89-1294, 89-1310, 89-1373, and 89-1392.

Mark G. Magnuson for Consolidated Natural Gas Service Corp., Stephen E. Williams, Kevin J. Lipson, and Richard T. Saas, for CNG Transmission Corp., were on the joint brief, for petitioner CNG Transmission Corp., in 89-1392, and intervenor in 89-1267, 89-1294, 89-1310, 89-1373, and 89-1379. John E. Holtzinger, Jr., and Charles C. Thebaud, Jr., for CNG Transmission Corp., also entered appearances, for petitioner.

Dwight C. Alpern, attorney, F.E.R.C., for respondent. Jerome M. Feit and Jill Hall, attorneys, FERC, were on the brief, for respondent. Robert H. Solomon, atty., FERC, also entered an appearance, for respondent in all cases.

Henry S. May, Jr., with whom Judy M. Johnson, and Catherine O'Harra, for Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., John T. Miller Jr., for Elizabethtown Gas Co., Michael W. Hall and David Konick for Brooklyn Union Gas Co., Mary Baluss and Christopher J. Barr, for Philadelphia Elec. Co., Edward B. Myers, for Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., Stephen J. Small, for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., Stanley W. Balis for Municipal Defense Group, Jerome C. Muys, for Somerset Gas Service, and Kevin J. Lipson, John E. Holtzinger, Jr., and Charles C. Thebaud, Jr., for CNG Transmission Corp., were on the joint brief, for intervenors in 89-1267, 89-1294, 89-1310, 89-1373, 89-1379, and 89-1392. Richard J. Kruse and J. Evans Attwell, for Texas Eastern Transmission Corp., William E. Mohler, III, and Giles D.H. Snyder, for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., Demetrios G. Pulas, Jr., for Municipal Defense Group, Harry H. Voigt, M. Reamy Ancarrow, Diane B. Schrotwieser, and Mindy A. Buren, for Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc., also entered appearances, for intervenors.

James R. Lacey, for Public Service Electric and Gas Company, Don S. Smith and Steven A. Weiler, for Associated Natural Gas Co., Richard A. Solomon and David D'Alessandro, for Public Service Com'n of the State of New York, James F. Bowe, Jr., and Julia Weller for Long Island Lighting Co., Gary E. Guy for Equitrans, Inc., Joseph M. Oliver, Jr., M. Lisanne Crowley, and Nicholas W. Mattia, Jr., for New Jersey Natural Gas Co., William I. Harkaway, Steven J. Kalish, and Barbara M. Gunther, for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Richard E. Powers, Jr., John K. McDonald, and John B. Chapman, for Pennzoil Co., Mary E. Baluss, for UGI Corp., John S. Schmid, Gearold L. Knowles, and Mark A. Gallagher, for Bay State Gas Co., et al., John W. Amos for Nashville Gas Co., et al., George L. Weber and Kenneth L. Glick for Nat. Fuel Gas Supply Corp., Charles H. Shoneman for Producer-Marketer Trans. Group, and Ronald E. Christian, for Indiana Gas Co., also entered appearances, for intervenors.

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


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge D.H. GINSBURG.

D.H. GINSBURG, Circuit Judge:

Over the past decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has taken a number of steps to make the market for the sale of natural gas more competitive. One such step has been to encourage pipeline companies to implement a gas inventory charge (GIC). As the Commission explained in a statement of policy made in the course of Order No. 500, Regulation of Natural Gas...

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