MC10004

Request for Initiation of a NAESB Standard for Electronic Business Transactions or

Request for Enhancement of a NAESB Standard for Electronic Business Transactions

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North American Energy Standards Board

Request for Initiation of a NAESB Business Practice Standard, Model Business Practice or Electronic Transaction

or

Enhancement of an Existing NAESB Business Practice Standard, Model Business Practice or Electronic Transaction

Date of Request: November 4, 2009

1. Submitting Entity & Address:

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America, LLC

500 Dallas Street, Suite 1000

Houston, Texas 77002

Williams Gas Pipeline

P.O. Box 1396

Houston, TX 77251-1396

2. Contact Person, Phone #, Fax #, Electronic Mailing Address:

Name : Paul Love

Title : Director Electronic Customer Services

Phone : 713-369-9320

Fax : 713-369-9325

Email :

Name : Dale Davis

Title : Industry Standards Consultant

Phone : 713.215.2396

Fax : 713.215.4595

Email :

3.  Title and Description of Proposed Standard or Enhancement:

Title: Add Additional Charge Type and Service Requester Level Charge/Allowance Amount Descriptor code values to NAESB WGQ Standard 3.4.1.


Description: Add Charge Type codes for the following:

Code Value Description Code Value Definition Proposed Code Value

Access Charge to Take or Bank Gas ACC

Commodity-Non Transportation No definition necessary CNT

Facilities Reimbursement No definition necessary FAC

Off-system Commodity Commodity charge for using OCO

off-system capacity

Off-system Misc Charge Miscellaneous charges for using OMC

off-system capacity

Reservation/Demand Charges No definition necessary RSV

Odorization Charges No definition necessary ODZ

Directional Notice Charge Charge for non compliance DNC

with a directional notice

Operational Flow Order Charge Charge for non compliance OFO

with an Operational Flow Order

Add the following Allowance Amount Descriptor code values:

Code Value Description Code Value Definition Proposed Code Value

Commodity Refund Refund of interruptible commodity charges

Directional Notice Refund Refund of Directional Notice charges

Facilities Reimbursement No definition necessary

Fuel Tracker Refund No definition necessary

Imbalance Charges Refund No definition necessary

Operational Flow Order Refund No definition necessary

4. Use of Proposed Standard or Enhancement (include how the standard will be used, documentation on the description of the proposed standard, any existing documentation of the proposed standard, and required communication protocols): More accurate reflection of the charge type on a NGPL invoice

5. Description of Any Tangible or Intangible Benefits to the Use of the Proposed Standard or Enhancement: Allows comparability between paper invoice and EDI invoice

6. Estimate of Incremental Specific Costs to Implement Proposed Standard or Enhancement:

None since no one is receiving invoices via EDI.

7. Description of Any Specific Legal or Other Considerations:

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8. If This Proposed Standard or Enhancement Is Not Tested Yet, List Trading Partners Willing to Test Standard or Enhancement (Corporations and contacts):

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9. If This Proposed Standard or Enhancement Is In Use, Who are the Trading Partners :

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10. Attachments (such as : further detailed proposals, transaction data descriptions, information flows, implementation guides, business process descriptions, examples of ASC ANSI X12 mapped transactions):

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