American Gas Ass'n v. F.E.R.C.
| Decision Date | 27 August 1990 |
| Docket Number | No. 87-1588,87-1588 |
| Citation | 912 F.2d 1496,286 U.S.App.D.C. 142 |
| Parties | , 115 P.U.R.4th 281 AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION, Petitioner, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, The Independent Oil & Gas Association, Northwest Pipeline Corporation, El Paso Natural Gas Company, Bay State Gas Company, et al., Tenneco Oil Company, Apache Corporation, The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, City of Albany, et al., ONG Transmission Company, et al., Public Service Commission of the State of New York, Mobil Natural Gas, Inc., Conoco, Inc., Intervenors. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — District of Columbia Circuit |
Raymond N. Shibley, with whom the following were on the joint brief for pipeline petitioners in 87-1588, et al.: Frank R. Lindh, John A. Sieger, and Judy M. Johnson for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. and Trunkline Gas Co.; John H. Cheatham, III for Interstate Natural Gas Ass'n of America, Inc.; Paul E. Goldstein and Paul W. Mallory for Natural Gas Pipeline Co. of America; Robert H. Benna and Terrence J. Collins for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co.; Michael R. Waller for United Gas Pipe Line Co.; Michael E. Small for Williams Natural Gas Co.; Daniel F. Collins and William W. Brackett for ANR Pipeline Co. and Colorado Interstate Pipeline Co.; William B. Grealis and Deborah A. MacDonald for Transwestern Pipeline Co.; and Stephen L. Huntoon for Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Jennifer N. Waters, with whom the following were on the joint brief for petitioner state com'n, distribution companies, and related agencies in 87-1588, et al.: Frederick Moring and Toni M. Fine for Associated Gas Distributors; William T. Miller and Susan N. Kelly for American Public Gas Ass'n; Roberta L. Halladay, Marilyn A. Specht, and C. William Cooper for United Distribution Companies; Richard A. Solomon and David D'Alessandro for Public Service Comm'n, State of N.Y.; Lynne H. Church and Robert Fleishman for Baltimore Gas and Electric Co.; Robert B. Langstaff for Board of Water Gas and Light Commissioners, Albany, Ga.; William I. Harkaway, Harvey L. Reiter, Barbara M. Gunther, and Martin J. Bregman for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Kansas Power and Light Co., Kansas Public Service, Missouri Public Service, and Peoples Natural Gas Co. Harvey L. Reiter, with whom the following were on the joint brief for petitioner distributors, consumers, end-users, state commissions, state agencies, and a natural gas marketer in 87-1588, et al.: William I. Harkaway and Barbara M Gunther for Consolidated Edison Co. of New York, Inc., et al.; John K. Rosenberg and Martin J. Bregman for Kansas Power and Light Co.; William T. Miller and Susan N. Kelly for American Public Gas Ass'n; Joel L. Greene and Barbara S. Jost for Apache Powder Co., et al.; Frederick Moring, Jennifer N. Waters, and Toni M. Fine for Associated Gas Distributors; Joseph P. Stevens for The Brooklyn Union Gas Co.; Donald K. Dankner and Fred J. Killion for Central Hudson Gas and Elec. Corp., et al.; Arnold D. Berkeley, Richard I. Chaifetz, and Howard L. Nelson for City of Willcox, Arizona and Arizona Elec. Power Cooperative, Inc.; Robert J. Hirasuna for Hadson Gas Systems, Inc.; Jennifer N. Waters, Toni M. Fine, and Kenneth J. Neises for Laclede Gas Co.; Jeffrey M. Petrash and Daniel L. Schiffer for Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.; David I. Bloom for Northern Illinois Gas Co.; Margaret Ann Samuels for Office of the Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio; Edward B. Myers for Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.; Edward J. Grenier, Jr. and William H. Penniman for Process Gas Consumers Group, et al.; Stephen F. Greenwald, Lindsey How-Downing, and Patrick G. Golden for Pacific Gas and Elec. Co.; Thomas M. Patrick and Karen Lee for the Peoples Gas Light & Coke Co. and North Shore Gas Co.; Lawrence F. Barth and Veronica A. Smith for Pennsylvania Public Utilities Com'n; Richard A. Solomon and David D'Alessandro for Public Service Com'n, State of N.Y.; Janice E. Kerr, Michael B. Day, Edward W. O'Neill, and Harvey Y. Morris for Public Utilities Com'n of the State of Cal.; E.R. Island and David L. Huard for Southern California Gas Co.; Robert J. Haggerty, Dandrea Lynn Miller, and Robert B. Rice for Southern Union Gas Co.; William I. Harkaway for Southwest Gas Corp.; Frank J. Kelley, Louis J. Caruso, Don L. Keskey, Henry J. Boynton, Patricia S. Barone, Ronald D. Eastman, Lynda S. Mounts, and Joel Kaufman for State of Mich. and Michigan Public Service Com'n; Frederick Moring, Jennifer N. Waters, and Toni M. Fine for United Cities Gas Co.; Roberta L. Halladay, Marilyn A. Specht, and C. William Cooper for United Distribution Companies.
Thomas G. Johnson, with whom the following were on the joint brief for producer petitioners in 87-1588, et al.: Charles J. McClees, Jr. and James A. Ruoff for Shell Offshore Inc. and Shell Western E & P Inc.; Jack M. Wilhelm for Amoco Production Co.; R. Gordon Gooch for Anadarko Petroleum Co.; Richard G. Morgan for Apache Corp.; Harris S. Wood and Kathleen E. Magruder for Arco Oil and Gas Co.; Gerald P. Thurmond and David J. Evans for Chevron U.S.A. Inc.; Ernest J. Altegelt, III for Conoco, Inc.; C. Roger Hoffman and D.W. Rasch for Exxon Corp.; Toni D. Hennike and Gerald M. Bendo for Hunt Oil Co.; John J. Akins for Kerr-McGee Corp.; Robert C. Murray for Marathon Oil Co.; Paul F. O'Konski and Randolph C. Bruton for Mitchell Energy Corp.; Jay G. Martin for Mobil Natural Gas Inc. and Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast Inc.; Michael L. Pate for OXY USA Inc.; John B. Chapman, Sylvia McCormack, and John K. McDonald for Pennzoil Company; Larry Pain and Luke A. Mickum for Phillips Petroleum Co. and Phillips 66 Natural Gas Co.; Ronald D. Hurst for Placid Oil Co.; John Wolfe for Rosewood Resources, Inc.; Ralph J. Pearson, Jr. for Texaco Inc.; Kenneth L. Riedman, Jr. for Union Oil Co. of California; Kerry R. Brittain for Union Pacific Resources Co.; and Timothy J. Jacquet for Union Texas Petroleum Corp.
William W. Brackett, with whom the following were on the joint brief for pipeline petitioners in 87-1588, et al.: Daniel F. Collins for ANR Pipeline Co. and Colorado Interstate Gas Co.; William G. von Glahn, Lewis A. Posekany, J. Diana Hall, and Michael E. Small for Williams Natural Gas Co.; Michael R. Waller and Jacob M. Hiatt for United Gas Pipeline Co.; Deborah A. MacDonald, Rockford G. Meyer, and William J. Grealis for Transwestern Pipeline Co. Timothy N. Black, with whom the following were on the joint brief for certain petitioners and intervenors in opposition to continued use of disallowed deficiency-based allocation mechanism for take-or-pay passthrough in 87-1588, et al.: John H. Pickering, Stephen J. Small, and Mark D. Clark for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.; Lynne H. Church, Robert Fleishman, and Jeffrey D. Watkiss for Baltimore Gas and Elec. Co.; Roger C. Post and Jack L. Shailer for Columbia Gas Distribution Companies; Stephen E. Williams, Kevin J. Lipson, John E. Holtzinger, and Charles C. Thebaud, Jr. for CNG Transmission Corp.; Paul S. Buckley for Maryland People's Counsel; Jeffrey M. Petrash for Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.; Margaret Ann Samuels for Office of the Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio; Lindsey How-Downing, Merek E. Lipson, and Patrick G. Golden for Pacific Gas and Elec. Co.; and Christopher J. Barr for UGI Corp.
Charles F. Wheatley, Jr. and Philip B. Malter were on the brief for petitioner National Ass'n of Gas Consumers.
Arnold D. Berkeley was on the brief for petitioners City of Willcox, Ariz. and Arizona Elec. Power Cooperative, Inc.
Jeffrey M. Petrash for Michigan Consolidated Gas Co.; Frederick Moring, Jennifer N. Waters, and Toni M. Fine for Associated Gas Distributors; Robert Fleishman for Baltimore Gas and Elec. Co.; Margaret Ann Samuels for Office of Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio; Kenneth J. Neises for Laclede Gas Co.; John M. Glynn for Maryland People's Counsel; Glenn W. Letham and Kenneth M. Albert for Memphis Light, Gas and Water Div., City of Memphis, Tenn.; Frank J. Kelley, Louis J. Caruso, Don L. Keskey, Henry J. Boynton, Patricia S. Barone, Ronald D. Eastman, Lynda S. Mounts, and Joel Kaufman for the State of Mich. and Michigan Public Service Com'n; and David L. Bloom for Northern Illinois Gas Co. also were on the joint brief for petitioners concerning contract demand reduction in 87-1588, et al.
Richard C. Green, Donald J. MacIver, Jr., Richard Owen Baish, Scott D. Fobes, and T. Rush Moody, Jr. entered appearances for petitioner El Paso Natural Gas Co. in 87-1588, et al.
Jerome M. Feit, Solicitor, F.E.R.C., with whom William S. Scherman, Gen. Counsel, Dwight C. Alpern and Jill Hall, Attys., F.E.R.C., were on the brief, for respondent in 87-1588, et al. John Estes and Joseph Davies, Attys., F.E.R.C., also entered appearances for respondent.
Edward J. Grenier, Jr., with whom the following were on the joint brief of intervenor industrial end user groups, state commissions, and consumer advocates in 87-1588, et al.: William H. Penniman, Glen S. Howard, and Sterling H. Smith for Process Gas Consumers Group, et al.; Paul S. Buckley for Maryland People's Counsel; Ronald D. Eastman, Lynda S. Mounts, and Joel Kaufman for State of Mich. and Michigan Public Service Com'n; Margaret Ann Samuels for Office of the Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio; Janice E. Kerr, Michael B. Day, Edward W. O'Neill, and Harvey Y. Morris for Public Utilities Com'n of the State of Cal.; Richard A. Solomon and David D'Alessandro for Public Service Com'n, State of N.Y.; Robert F. Shapiro, Thomas E. Hirsch, III, and Gregory D. Chafee for American Paper Institute, Inc.; Lawrence F. Barth and Veronica A. Smith for Pennsylvania Public Utilities Com'n.
John H. Cheatham, III for Interstate Natural Gas Ass'n of America, Inc.; Raymond N. Shibley, Frank R. Lindh, and John A. Siegar for Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. and Trunkline Gas Co.; Paul E. Goldstein and Paul W. Mallory for ...
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