FERC posted a Staff Notice Of Alleged Violations which disclosed a nonpublic investigation of Rover Pipeline, LLC and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P.

The Staff Notice Of Alleged Violations stated and alleged, "Take notice that in a nonpublic investigation pursuant to 18 C.F.R. Part 1b (2016), the staff of the Office of Enforcement of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has preliminarily determined that Rover Pipeline, LLC (Rover) and Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. (ETP) (collectively, Rover) violated section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, 15 U.S.C. § 717, et seq., and section 157.5 of the Commission’s Regulations, 18 C.F.R. § 157.5 (2016), which impose a 'forthright obligation' that '[a]pplications under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act shall set forth all information necessary to advise the Commission fully concerning the operation, sales, service, construction, extension or acquisition for which a certificate is requested . . . . 18 C.F.R. § 157.5. Staff has preliminarily determined that, between February 2015 and September 2016, Rover did not fully and forthrightly disclose all relevant information to the Commission in its Application for a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity and attendant filings in Docket No. CP15-93. Specifically, in the Application and other docketed filings, Rover falsely promised it would avoid adverse effects to a historic resource that it was simultaneously working to purchase and destroy. Rover subsequently made several misstatements in its docketed response to the Commission’s questions about why it had purchased and demolished the resource."

The Staff Notices Of Alleged Violations do not constitute a finding or decision by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and only represent preliminary Staff determinations. Respondents may contest the preliminary Staff determinations

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