Our Ref:		S2005/94
Your Ref:	
Contact Officer:	Alex Ralston
Contact Phone:	9230 9161

24 August 2005

Proposed access arrangement for the Central Ranges Pipeline

On 23 August 2005, Central Ranges Pipelines Pty Ltd (CRP) lodged, for approval by the ACCC under the provisions of the National Third Party Access Code for Natural Gas Pipeline Systems, a proposed access arrangement covering the pipeline to be built in the Central Ranges.

The proposed access arrangement describes the terms and conditions under which CRP will offer third party access to the Central Ranges Pipeline.  The proposed access arrangement and supporting documentation are available from the AER's website at 
http://www.aer.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/687422/fromItemId/678605 

Interested parties are invited to make submissions to the ACCC on any issues relevant to this proposed access arrangement by 23 September 2005. The ACCC prefers that all written submissions be publicly available to foster an informed, transparent and robust consultative process. Accordingly, submissions will be treated as public documents unless otherwise requested. Parties wishing to submit confidential information are asked to provide both confidential and non-confidential versions of their submission. All non-confidential submissions will be placed on the AER’s website. Any information for which confidentiality is claimed will be dealt with under sections 7.11-7.13 of the code. Please supply submissions in electronic format compatible with Microsoft Word to the review email address crp@accc.gov.au. In addition, one original signed document should be mailed to the postal address below:

Mr Warwick Anderson
Acting General Manager
Access Branch
AER, GPO Box 3648	
Sydney NSW 2001

A copy of the Draft Decision and Final Decision documents will be sent to all parties who make a submission. The default form of distribution is to email the copy. If you prefer to receive a hard copy, please indicate this in writing when you lodge your submission and indicate the postal address to which it should be sent.

Similarly, if you do not make a submission but wish to receive copies of the decisions, please send details of your request to the above email or postal address.  Non-confidential versions of submissions, any consultancy reports, further information from CRP and other relevant material will also be placed on the AER’s website. If you wish to receive automatic advice of additional information being added, please subscribe to the “email alert” facility on the right hand side of the relevant page or pages of the AER’s site (http://www.aer.gov.au). Note that you will need to subscribe on each page which is of interest to you.

Please contact Alex Ralston on (02) 92309161, or at the above email address, if you have any questions on this matter.