Comments of an individual in opposition to the construction of the Natural Gas Facility in the middle of the Long Island Sound as planned and proposed by Broadwater Energy, LLC under PF05-4.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION Five-Year Review Of ) Oil Pipeline Pricing Index ) Docket No. RM05-22-000 ) REPLY COMMENTS OF THE AIR TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA, INC. Pursuant to the Notice of Inquiry, Five Year Review of Oil Pipeline Pricing Index, 112 FERC 61,037 (July 6, 2005)(NOI), the Air Transport Association of America, Inc., (ATA) hereby submits its reply comments to those filed by the Association of Oil Pipelines (AOPL) on September 13, 2005. STATEMENT OF INTEREST ATA is the nations oldest and largest airline trade association and its members account for more than 90 percent of the passenger and cargo traffic carried by U.S. scheduled airlines.1 Since its founding in 1936, ATA has played a major role in the regulatory arena by encouraging appropriate governmental policy and action regarding aviation. One of ATAs primary roles is to advocate common aviation industry policy positions before governmental bodies. ATAs membership includes airlines which are past, current and future shippers on various interstate product pipeline systems and are consumers of jet fuel transported 1 ATA serves as the principal trade and service organization of the major scheduled air carriers in the United States. ATAs members include: ABX Air, Alaska Airlines, Aloha Airlines, America West Airlines, American Airlines, ASTAR Air Cargo, ATA Airlines, Atlas Air, Continental Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Evergreen International Airlines, FedEx Corp., Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Midwest Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Polar Air Cargo, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines, UPS Airlines and US Airways; associate members include Aeromexico, Air Canada, Air Jamaica and Mexicana. on these systems. ATAs members are directly affected by the rates and tariffs of the various interstate pipelines and ha ve a direct and substantial interest in this proceeding. Clearly, ATA and its member airlines believe that interstate pipelines should be afforded an opportunity to charge just and reasonable rates. As discussed below, the Commissions intent to utilize the current index for oil pipeline rate changes, as expressed in the NOI, should ensure that shippers and consumers are charged no more than just and reasonable rates as a result of indexing. However, the airlines concern about an unsupported and unreasonable increase to the index is understandable: U.S. passenger and cargo airlines are projected to consume 19 billion gallons of jet fuel in worldwide operations in 2005. At this consumption rate, every penny increase in the price of a gallon of jet fuel drives an additional $190 million in annual fuel costs. In January 2002, the ...