---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 284.284"
title: "18"
number: "284.284"
heading: "Blanket certificates for unbundled sales services."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/284.284"
---

# §284.284. Blanket certificates for unbundled sales services.

- (a) **Authorization.** An interstate pipeline that offers transportation service under subpart [B](/cfr/18/subpartB.md) or [G](/cfr/18/subpartG.md) of this part is granted a blanket certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to section 7 of the Natural Gas Act authorizing it to provide unbundled firm or interruptible sales in accordance with the provisions of this section.
- (b) **Conversion to unbundled firm sales service and firm transportation service.** On the effective date of the pipeline's blanket certificate for unbundled sales services under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, firm sales entitlements under any firm sales service agreement for a bundled sales service are converted to an equivalent amount of unbundled firm sales service and an equivalent amount of unbundled firm transportation service.
- (c) **Conversion to unbundled interruptible sales service and interruptible transportation service.** On the effective date of the pipeline's blanket certificate for unbundled sales services under [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section, interruptible sales volumes under any interruptible sales service agreement for a bundled sales service are converted to an equivalent amount of unbundled sales service and an equivalent amount of unbundled interruptible transportation service.
- (d) A pipeline that provides unbundled sales service under this section may serve as an agent of the sales customer to arrange for any pipeline-provided service necessary to deliver gas to the customer.
- (e) **Small customer cost-based rate.** A pipeline that provided bundled sales service to a small customer before the effective date of the blanket certificate granted in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section is required to offer a sales service to that customer at a cost-based rate for one year from the effective date of the certificate. The obligation to sell at the cost-based rate expires one year after the effective date of the certificate.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Order 636, 57 FR 13318, Apr. 16, 1992, as amended by Order 636-A, 57 FR 36218, Aug. 12, 1992; Order 581, 60 FR 53074, Oct. 11, 1995]

### Source

Source: Order 636, 57 FR 13318, Apr. 16, 1992, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 717-717z, 3301-3432; 42 U.S.C. 7101-7352; 43 U.S.C. 1331-1356.

### Source

Source: Order 46, 44 FR 52184, Sept. 7, 1979, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[Order 636, 57 FR 13318, Apr. 16, 1992, as amended by Order 636-A, 57 FR 36218, Aug. 12, 1992; Order 581, 60 FR 53074, Oct. 11, 1995]