American Gas Ass'n v. F.E.R.C.
| Decision Date | 05 January 1990 |
| Docket Number | Nos. 87-1588,87-1336,s. 87-1588 |
| Citation | 888 F.2d 136 |
| Parties | , 105 P.U.R.4th 525 AMERICAN GAS ASSOCIATION, et al., Petitioners, v. FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, Respondent, The Independent Oil & Gas Association, et al., Intervenors. to 87-1346, 87-1595, 87-1604, 87-1613, 87-1614, 87-1638, 87-1649, 87-1650, 87-1652, 87-1655, 87-1667, 87-1678, 87-1710, 87-1732, 87-1763, 87-1766 to 87-1768, 87-1772 and 87-1773. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — District of Columbia Circuit |
Raymond N. Shibley, Washington, D.C., for Panhandle Eastern Pipeline Company and Truckline Gas Company David J. Muchow and Roger B. Cooper, Arlington, Va., for American Gas Association; Daniel F. Collins and William W. Brackett, Washington, D.C., for ANR Pipeline Company and Colorado Interstate Gas Company; John H. Cheatham III, for Interstate Natural Gas Association of America; Kevin J. Lipson, John E. Holtzinger, Jr., Charles C. Thebaud, Jr., Washington, D.C., and Stephen E. Williams for CNG Transmission Corporation; Terence J. Collins, Washington, D.C., Margaret L. Bollinger, Houston, Tex., and Robert H. Benna, Washington, D.C., for Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Robert T. Hall, III, New York City, and Stephen L. Huntoon for Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company; William J. Grealis, Dana B. Ott, Washington, D.C., and Cheryl M. Foley, Houston, Tex., for Transwestern Pipeline Company; John F. Harrington, Birmingham, Mich., for Texas Gas Transmission Corp.; Michael R. Waller, Washington, D.C., for United Gas Pipe Line Company; and Michael E. Small, Washington, D.C., for Williams Natural Gas Company were on the joint brief for Pipeline Group in 87-1588, et al.
Jennifer N. Waters with whom Frederick Moring, Washington, D.C., for Associated Gas Distributors; William T. Miller, Susan N. Kelly and Mark C. Darrell, Washington, D.C., for American Public Gas Association; Roberta L. Halladay, Washington, D.C., Marilyn A. Specht and C. William Cooper, for United Distribution Companies; Richard A. Solomon and David D'Alessandro, Pittsburgh, Pa., for The Public Service Commission, State of New York; Lynne H. Church and Robert Fleishman and Jeffrey D. Watkiss, Washington, D.C., for Baltimore Gas and Electric Company; Robert B. Langstaff, for Board of Water Gas & Light Commissioners, Albany, Georgia; William I. Harkaway, Harvey L. Reiter, Washington, D.C., and Barbara M. Gunther, Brooklyn, N.Y., for Consolidated Edison Company of New York; Kenneth J. Neises, for Laclede Gas Company; John M. Glynn for Maryland People's Counsel; Frank J. Kelley, Detroit, Mich., Louis J. Caruso, Don L. Keskey, Henry J. Boynton, Lansing, Mich., Patricia S. Barone, Murphysboro, Ill., Ronald D. Eastman and Lynda S. Mounts, Washington, D.C., for The State of Michigan and Michigan Public Service Commission; Glen W. Letham and Kenneth M. Albert, Washington, D.C., for Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division; Charles F. Wheatley, Jr., Philip B. Malter for National Association of Gas Consumers; Harry H. Voight and M. Reamy Ancarrow, Washington, D.C., for Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation, and Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.; David I. Bloom, Washington, D.C., for Northern Illinois Gas Company; Margaret Ann Samuels, Columbus, Ohio, for Office of the Consumers' Counsel, State of Ohio; William I. Harkaway, Washington, D.C., and C. Burnett Dunn, for Oklahoma Natural Gas Transmission Company; Steven F. Greenwald, Joshua Bar-Lev and Lindsey How-Downing, San Francisco, Cal., for Pacific Gas & Electric Com pany; James R. Lacey, for Public Service Electric & Gas Company; Janice E. Kerr, J. Calvin Simpson, and Michael B. Day, San Francisco, Cal., for The Public Utilities Commission of The State of California; E.R. Island and David L. Huard, Los Angeles, Cal., for Southern California Gas Company; Frank H. Strickler, Gordon M. Grant, Washington, D.C., and Ralph E. Fisher for Washington Gas Light Company; Veronica Smith for Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission; James Hinchliff, Chicago, Ill., Thomas M. Patrick, Mark J. McGuire, and Karen Lee for The Peoples Gas Light & Coke Company and North Shore Gas Company were on the joint brief for Local Distribution Companies, state commissions and related agencies in 87-1588, et al.
Thomas G. Johnson with whom Charles J. McClees, Jr. and James A. Ruoff, Houston, Tex., for Shell Offshore, Inc. and Shell Western E & P Inc.; Jack M. Wilhelm, Amoco Production Co.; R. Gordon Gooch, Washington, D.C., and F. Nan Wagoner, Houston, Tex., for Anadocko Petroleum Corp.; Richard G. Morgan for Apache Corp.; Harris S. Wood and Kathleen E. Magruder, Houston, Tex., for Arco Oil and Gas Company; David J. Evans, and James B. Atkin, San Francisco, Cal., for Chevron USA Inc.; Ernest J. Altgelt, III, Houston, Tex., for Conoco, Inc.; C. Roger Hoffman and D.W. Rasch, Houston, Tex., for Exxon Corporation; Toni D. Hennike, Dallas, Tex., and Gerald M. Bendo, Tulsa, Okl., for Hunt Oil Company; John J. Akins, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Kerr-McGee Corporation; Robert C. Murray, New York City, for Marathon Oil Company; R. Brent Harshman for Maxus Energy Corp.; Paul F. O'Konski and Randolph C. Bruton for Meridian Oil, Inc.; Jay G. Martin, Houston, Tex., for Mobil Natural Gas Inc., and Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc.; John B. Chapman, El Paso, Tex., for Pennzoil Company; Michael L. Pate for Oxy USA, Inc.; John L. Williford, Bartlesville, Okl., Larry Pain and Luke A. Mickum, Oklahoma City, Okl., for Phillips Petroleum Co. and Phillips 66 Natural Gas Co.; Ronald D. Hurst, for Placid Oil Company; Ralph J. Pearson, Jr., Austin, Tex., and David B. Lindberg for Texaco, Inc.; Kenneth L. Riedman, Jr., Los Angeles, Cal., for Union Oil Company of California; and Kerry R. Brittain and Alan W. Tomme, Midland, Tex., for Union Pacific Resources Company were on the joint brief for Producers Group in 87-1588, et al.
William W. Brackett with whom Daniel F. Collins, Washington, D.C., ANR Pipeline Company and Colorado Interstate Gas Company; Steven E. Williams, Kevin J. Lipson, John E. Holtzinger and Charles C. Thebaud, Jr., for CNG Transmission Corporation, Michael R. Waller, Washington, D.C., for United Gas Pipe Line Company, and Robert T. Hall, III, New York City, and Stephen L. Huntoon, Washington, D.C., for Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Company were on the joint brief for Pipeline Group, in the Take-or-Pay and Contract Demand Issues in 87-1588, et al.
Robert H. Benna with whom John T. Ketcham, David D. Withnell, Washington, D.C., and Margaret L. Bollinger, Houston, Tex., were on the brief for Tennessee Gas, on the Take-or-Pay and Contract Demand Issues in 87-1588, et al.
Edward B. Myers also entered an appearance for petitioner Interstate Natural Gas Association of America.
Dale A. Wright and Michael E. Small, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for petitioners Williams Natural Gas Co., Northwest Pipeline Corp.
Charles M. Darling, IV and Stephen L. Teichler, Washington, D.C., entered an appearance for petitioner Ashland Exploration, Inc., Cabot Corp.
Robert T. Hall, III, New York City, and Stephen L. Huntoon, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for petitioner Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline Co.
Jerome M. Feit, Solicitor, FERC, Washington, D.C., with whom Catherine C. Cook, General Counsel, Dwight C. Alpern, Detroit, Mich., and Joel M. Cockrell, Washington, D.C., attorneys, FERC, were on the brief for respondent in 87-1588, et al., John Estes, Joseph Davies, attorneys, FERC, also entered appearances for respondent.
Edward J. Grenier, Jr. with whom William H. Penniman, James M. Bushee, Washington, D.C., for Process Gas Consumers Group, American Iron and Steel Institute and Georgia Industrial Group and Robert F. Shapiro and Thomas E. Hirsch, III, Washington, D.C., for American Paper Institute, Inc., were on the joint brief for intervenors Industrial End Users Group in 87-1588, et al.
George L. Weber and Kenneth L. Glich, for National Fuel Gas Supply Corporation; Stephen J. Small, Boston, Mass., Mark D. Clark, John H. Pickering, Timothy N. Black, Neal T. Kilminster, and Susan D. McAndrew, Washington, D.C., for Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.; and Ronald N. Carroll, for Inland Gas Company, Inc. were on the joint brief for intervenors on Contract Demand Reduction Issues in 87-1588, et al.
Norma K. Scogin, Assistant Attorney General, State of Texas, Austin, Tex., was on the joint brief for intervenors Railroad Commission of Texas, Corporation Commission of the State of Kansas, and State of Louisiana in 87-1588, et al.
Richard G. Morgan and Brian T. O'Reilly entered an appearance for intervenor American Gas, et al.
Rigdon H. Boykin, New York City, and Thomas E. Hirsch, III, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor The American Paper Institute, Inc.
William T. Miller, Susan N. Kelly and Mark C. Darrell, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor American Public Gas Association.
Jon L. Brunenkant, Kevin M. Sweeney, Washington, D.C., and Jack M. Wilhelm entered appearances for intervenor Amoco Production Co.
Gordon Gooch, Katherine Edwards, Washington, D.C., Dennis Moss and Dan A. Spencer, Spring, Tex., entered appearances for intervenor Anadocko Petroleum Corp.
Richard G. Morgan entered an appearance for intervenor Apache Corporation.
Harris S. Wood, Norma J. Rasner and Kathleen E. Magruder, Houston, Tex., entered appearances for intervenor ARCO Oil and Gas Co.
Joel L. Greene and Barbara S. Jost, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenors Arizona Public Service Co., et al.
Ivy Lincoln entered an appearance for intervenor The Arkansas Public Service Commission.
Frederick Moring, M. Lisanne Crowley and Jennifer N. Waters, Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for intervenor Associated Gas Distributors.
Robert Fleishman, Lynne H. Church and Jeffrey D. Watkiss, Washington, D.C., entered appearances for intervenor Baltimore Gas and...
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