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The Commission declines to adopt DSPS’ proposal to move the Evening Nomination Cycle to 7:00 p.m. CCT or to modify the Commission’s policy on natural gas 189 TVA Comments at 4.190 See, e.g., Dominion Comments at 13; Enhanced Reliability Coalition at 31-32; Sequent Comments at 6; NGSA Comments at 22.
Several pipelines state that the proposal to allow primary-firm nominations to bump secondary firm nominations in the Evening Nomination Cycle would also negatively affect pipeline operations.185 INGAA states that pipeline operators need sufficient time after scheduling nominations, based on priority, to set up the pipeline system for the next Gas Day.
Also, it may be more difficult to obtain next-day firm transportation capacity after the Timely Nomination Cycle, because firm transactions scheduled in the Timely Nomination Cycle cannot be bumped in later nomination cycles and shippers may have already made capacity release arrangements for the next day.140 After the Timely Nomination Cycle, the Evening Nomination Cycle, beginning at 6:00 p.m. CCT, offers the only standard opportunity to reschedule gas transportation for the next Gas Day.76.
None of the commenters on DSPS’s proposal support DSPS’s proposal to change the Evening Nomination Cycle from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. CCT.178 While most commenters oppose modifying Commission policy to permit primary-firm nominations to bump secondary firm nominations in the Evening Nomination Cycle, a few commenters support this proposal.
The NOPR did not propose any changes to the existing Evening Nomination Cycle, under which nominations must be submitted by 6:00 p.m. CCT, confirmations are completed by 9:00 p.m. CCT, and the pipeline notifies shippers of their scheduled quantities by 10:00 p.m. CCT.79.
With respect to DSPS’s proposal to change the scheduling priority of secondary firm/alternate nominations in the Evening Nomination Cycle, NGSA and PGC contend the DSPS proposal would de-value secondary firm service183 and AGA argues that the 179 See, e.g., INGAA Comments at 9-10; National Grid Comments at 5;New England LDCs Comments at 32; PGC Comments at 8; Transwestern Comments at 4.
DSPS states that, by allowing a retro/make up nomination to be submitted in the Evening Nomination Cycle, the firm shipper would be ensuring that the gas it uses to address the operating contingency would be injected into the pipeline beginning at the start of the next Gas Day.
The Commission is amending its regulations at Part 284 to incorporate by reference NAESB’s revised standards, which provide that the nomination deadline for the Timely Nomination Cycle shall be 1:00 p.m. CCT, with notice to shippers of scheduled quantities at 5:00 p.m. CCT, and the nomination deadline for the Evening Nomination Cycle shall remain at 6:00 p.m. CCT, with notice to shippers of scheduled quantities at 9:00 p.m. CCT.
INGAA contends that the adoption of the DSPS’s proposal effectively would shift this work from the period following the Timely Nomination Cycle to the period following the Evening Nomination Cycle because firm shippers will have little or no reason to submit primary firm nominations prior to the Evening Nomination Cycle.
The deadline for shippers to submit gas nominations to a pipeline for delivery the next gas day is 6:00 p.m.; the pipeline must provide notice to shippers of scheduled quantities and provide notice to interruptible shippers whose scheduled quantities will be reduced by an Evening Nomination by a firm shipper by 10:00 p.m.; and scheduled quantities for the Evening Nomination Cycle shall be effective for flow at 4:00 a.m. on the next gas day.