STIPULATION AND CONSENT AGREEMENTStipulation and Consent Agreement • December 9th, 2011 • Atmos Energy Corp • Natural gas distribution
Staff of the Office of Enforcement (Enforcement) of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) and Atmos Energy Corporation (Atmos), the parent company of Atmos Energy Marketing, Inc. (AEM) and Trans Louisiana Gas Pipeline, Inc. (Trans La), enter into this Stipulation and Consent Agreement (Agreement) to resolve an investigation under Part 1b of the Commission’s regulations, 18 C.F.R. Part 1b (2011), into whether AEM and Trans La violated provisions of the Commission’s open-access transportation program, which entailed the competitive bidding requirements for long-term, discounted rate capacity releases set forth at 18 C.F.R. § 284.8 (2009), the shipper-must-have-title requirement, and 18 C.F.R. § 1c.1 (2011).
