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Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines

FR Abstract

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amends its regulations to incorporate by reference, as mandatory enforceable requirements, revisions to three of the Version 4.0 Standards for Business Practices of Interstate Natural Gas Pipelines adopted by the Wholesale Gas Quadrant (WGQ) of the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB). These revisions are designed to streamline the process for accessing publicly available gas-electric coordination data during extreme cold weather or emergency events.

Incorporation

FR Document Number

2026-10600

Federal Register Volume

Federal Register Year

2026-05-28

Federal Register Start Page

31651

Federal Register End Page

31660

Federal Agency

Energy Department

Federal Register Link

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-05-28/pdf/2026-10600.pdf

CFR Citation

18 CFR 284

FR Citation

91 FR 31651

CFR title

CFR Part

284

Document Number

NAESB WGQ Invoicing Related Standards, Version 4.0

Document Edition

2024

Standard Title

Wholesale Gas Quadrant Standards, Invoicing Related Standards, Version 4.0, September 29, 2023, (including Minor Correction MC24002 applied May 17, 2024)

SDO

North American Energy Standards Board Wholesale Electric Quadrant

Standard Number Link

https://www.naesb.org/wgq/imp.asp

Excerpts

designate a single tariff section under which every NAESB WGQ Standard incorporated by reference by the Commission is listed. 41 In that tariff section, the pipeline must list for each standard: 41 Trans-Union Interstate Pipeline L.P., 141 FERC ¶ 61,167, at P 36 (2012) (Order No. 587-V Compliance Order); Version 3.2 NOPR, 174 FERC ¶ 61,103 at P 21. (a) whether the standard is incorporated by reference; (b) for those standards not incorporated by reference, the tariff provision that complies with the standard; or (c)

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