Category: Update

TariffShark Team Simulates Disaster and Recovery

During the evening of December 4, 2013, the TariffShark team gathered in a conference room at the Links Technology headquarters in Schaumburg, IL to test our disaster recovery procedures.  In the event that our Tier 4 data center experiences an outage that causes the hosted TariffShark servers to become unavailable, we restore service to a secondary data center.  We test these procedures every 6 months as a service to our hosted TariffShark customers.

The test ran successfully in just over an hour.

If you’d like to learn more about Hosted TariffShark, please visit our website or contact sales.

FERC Posts Updated eTariff Filing Types

On November 26, 2013, FERC issued a notice of changes to filing types that affect Oil Pipelines and nominally affect the Part 284 program. The specific changes are described in the notice and go into effect on December 23, 2013.

We are updating TariffShark to be compliant with the changes and will notify our customers when the update is available for download.  The update will require that only the database component be updated.  For our hosted customers, we will take care of everything.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact our support team.

FERC Posts Additional Changes to eTariff Filing Types

Earlier today, October 24, 2013, FERC posted additional changes to the filing types for the NGPA 311 Gas Pipelines program on its eTariff webpage.  Here is a brief summary of the changes.

TOFC (Code) Filing Title (Description) Filing Category Description of Change
820 Statement of Conditions with Rates (Baseline)(fee) New Description and Citation updated
980 Rate Change Filing Compliance Description updated
990 Statement of Conditions with Rates (Baseline) Refiled Description updated
1300 Rate Change Filing Normal Description updated
1320 Statement of Conditions with Rates (Baseline)(fee) New Description and Citation updated
1330 Statement of Conditions with Rates (Baseline) New Description updated


As with the noticed changes we blogged about earlier in the week, these changes go into effect on November 12, 2013.  We are updating TariffShark with these additional changes and will blog again when the software update is available.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact our support team.

FERC Posts Updated eTariff Filing Types

On October 11, 2013, FERC issued a notice of changes to filing types that affect NGPA 311 Gas Pipelines. The specific changes are described thoroughly in the notice and go into effect on November 12, 2013.

We are updating TariffShark to be compliant with the changes and will notify our customers when the update is available for download.

Though omitted from the notice, we discovered that several other changes had been included in the updated Type of Filing CSV file that FERC posts on its eTariff webpage.  The unnoticed changes affect Oil Pipelines, go into effect on November 12, 2013, and are summarized below.

TOFC (Code) Filing Title Filing Category Description of Change
830 Rate Changes, Initial Rates & Other Tariff Changes Normal Citation updated
870 Cancellation of Tariff (partial) Normal Citation updated
970 New company tariff (Baseline) New Citation updated
1230 Amendment Amendment New filing type
1250 Concurrence Normal New filing type

We are updating TariffShark with these Oil program changes at the same time as we accommodate the changes for NGPA 311 Gas Pipelines.  We will blog again when the software update is available.

In the meantime, if you have any questions, please contact our support team.