Section 460.875. Filing of rates, contracts, and regulations.

(1) Complete  rate  schedules,   and  rules  and  regulations governing each common purchaser's or common carrier's relations with its producers and distributors, shall be filed in compliance with commission order D-3096, or in pertinent superseding or modifying orders. In case all purchase contracts in a single field are identical, the filing of  such contracts as provided in section 25(2)  hereof, shall   be  considered   as fulfillment by the common purchaser of this requirement.

(2)    Every common purchaser or common carrier  shall   file  with  the commission a true and verified copy of any contracts for purchasing, receiving or supplying of gas within 30 days after the making thereof.

(3)   No change shall be made in any filed rates, charges, rules or regulations without approval of the commission.

Distributors

Utilities distributing natural gas should also refer to and be governed by "standards of gas service," commission order no. 1982.

3.  That attached hereto and made a part hereof is  a  map  or  plat of proposed line or lines, showing the dimensions and characters of such line or lines, compression stations, control valves and connections.

4.   That attached hereto and made a part here of is an exhibit showing the gas reserves served by the proposed main or mains.

5.   That attached hereto and made a part hereof is a schedule of the rates and prices at which the applicant herein will receive gas  at delivery stations and a schedule of rates or charges at which it will deliver gas to connecting carriers or distributing lines or customers, and, in case it is proposed to operate as a carrier for hire, a schedule of the rates and charges to be made for the services to be   performed by the applicant.

6.  That attached hereto and made a part hereof are certified copies of all contracts now signed for the purchase or sale of natural gas.

7.   That attached hereto and made a part hereof is a  carefully   compiled estimate by expert engineers setting forth the total cost of  the  completed project.

8.  That attached hereto and made a part hereof is a carefully prepared estimate by competent engineers showing the anticipated revenue, operating expenses and earnings for a five-year period. And said petitioner, therefore, prays that the Michigan Public Service Commission, under the authority of Act No. 9, of the  Public   Acts  of Michigan for the year 1929, may grant to said petitioner   its  approval  of the said map or plat and of the construction of said line or lines and may determine that such line or lines, when constructed and in operation, will serve the convenience and necessity of the public.

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Above well locations are on the normal 10-acre pattern used in Walker- Talmadge oil field.

Those well locations shown in solid black represent Traverse  oil  wells that may be deepened or plugged back to obtain gas production with acreage factors as stated. On tracts of 20 acres or more, operator may deepen or plug back only 1 of the wells shown in black in order to secure maximum allowable for the tract. The deepening or plugging back of a second well on the same tract, regardless of size of tract, shall not increase the allowable. If, at the option of the producer, any of the above Traverse wells, other than those in solid black, are deepened or  plugged  back,  they shall receive

the usual acreage factor prescribed    by    commission's    order D-2883, effective May 1, 1940.

History: 1979 AC.