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Northern Natural Gas said it lifted a System Underrun Limitationthat had been posted for Tuesday and today.

Following the leads of Atlanta Gas Light and National Fuel,Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) last week requested a 17-monthwaiver of FERC’s “shipper-must-have-title” policy in order tomaintain gas supply reliability when its customer choice program isexpanded to all of its 540,000 residential customers in November.

Following the leads of Atlanta Gas Light and National Fuel,Baltimore Gas & Electric (BGE) last week requested a 17-monthwaiver of FERC’s “shipper-must-have-title” policy in order tomaintain gas supply reliability when its customer choice program isexpanded to all of its 540,000 residential customers in November.

Allentown, PA-based electric utility PP&L said it set acompany record Monday for delivering summertime power. During hightemperatures and heavy humidity in central and easternPennsylvania, PP&L delivered 6,128,000 kWh of electricity tocustomers between 1 and 2 p.m. Monday. The company’s formersummertime record of 6,046,000 kWh was set July 15, 1997. PP&Lsaid it was able to set the delivery record without anyinterruption or curtailment of service to customers. In otherregional power news the New England Independent System Operatorcanceled a power warning that had been set through last night andsaid customers could resume normal power usage.

Bay State Gas avoided a significant bypass by the MassachusettsMunicipal Wholesale Electric Co. (MMWEC) thanks to landowneropposition to a larger pipeline proposal and a lengthy negotiationprocess. After two years of work on an alternative 15-mile bypassof the Bay State system that would have linked with Tennessee GasPipe Line, MMWEC yesterday signed a 20-year agreement covering 13Bcf/year of new gas transportation on Bay State’s system to servepower generation load.

After beginning last week in the middle of a three-dayhigh-inventory OFO (see Daily GPI, June 22), Pacific Gas &Electric declared another one for Saturday after previously sayingit expected system linepack to remain well above the utility’starget through the weekend. The new order carried a positiveimbalance tolerance of 11% and penalties of $1/dth fornon-compliance.

A high-inventory Stage 1 OFO implemented Sunday by Pacific Gas& Electric was continued through Monday and today. Sunday’s 15%imbalance tolerance was reduced to 6% Monday, but the noncompliancepenalty remains at $1/dth. PG&E projected that its linepackinventory would continue to be 200 MMcf or more above the utility’starget through Thursday.

Although the much-touted electricity restructuring billintroduced by Reps. Steve Largent (R-OK) and Edward Markey (D-MA)would slash the renewable portfolio mandate proposed by the Clintonadministration by more than half, natural gas producers stillaren’t quite satisfied.

Texas’ electricity markets would open to competition Jan. 1,2002 if a bill making its way through the state legislature passesthe senate. An earlier version of the bill passed the senate, butanother vote is required there since the legislation changed in thehouse. The governor has voiced his support for deregulation.