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Florida Gas Transmission issued an Overage Alert Day noticeWednesday, effective until further notice. The 2% tolerance fornegative daily imbalances is considerably more stringent than thosein OAD notices earlier this month.

Electric market participants in the Northeast last week resolvedto further explore whether the region should become one broadregional transmission organization (RTO) or whether it should bebroken up into smaller RTOs.

Electric market participants in the Northeast last week resolvedto further explore whether the region should become one broadregional transmission organization (RTO) or whether it should bebroken up into smaller RTOs.

U.S. dependence on Canadian gas has quadrupled since the 1970sand is expected to grow even further over the next decade, butthere’s no danger the country will be to the domestic gas marketwhat the Middle East has come to mean to the U.S. crude oil market,a Canadian pipeline executive said.

Due to unexpected maintenance on its TL-342 line affectingdeliveries into the PL-1 market, CNG canceled all interruptible andnon PL-1 secondary service Tuesday until further notice.

TriState Pipeline notified FERC earlier this week that it willnot pursue further application efforts to build its proposed 650MMcf/d pipeline between Chicago, IL, and Dawn, ON. The notificationletter put an end to a troubled project that had once hoped todirectly compete with the Vector Pipeline.

Sonat said an OFO Type 3 will be in effect today until furthernotice for the Birmingham Group, South Main Zone 2, Atlanta Group,South Main Zone 3, East of Wrens, Brunswick Line and Savannah Line.The pipeline also anticipates having to allocate IT in theChattanooga Group.

Texas Eastern reinstated until further notice Monday afternoon anOFO requiring that all deliveries in its M-3 market zone be made at auniform hourly rate. As in last Friday’s OFO that was suspendedSaturday morning (see Daily GPI,Jan. 18), non-compliance penalties are $25/dth and all M-3Operational Balancing Agreements are suspended for the purposes ofhourly allocations only.

Transco continues to ratchet upward IT availability into itsZone 6 market-area pool. Effective today until further notice, thepipeline said Monday, 100,000 dth/d each of interruptible capacitywill be available through the Linden (NJ) Regulator Station and forLeidy Line deliveries downtstream of the Centerville (NJ) RegulatorStation. It will offer another 100,000 dth/d of IT between Stations90 and 180 in Tiers I and II, but zero will be available in TierIII (Station 180 through East).