-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, ER5uTqpJGIfyfLvu/sHbYTb7/9Lmwkx86mrZwveaFd6CGnCsPcv/bsc4L/vbri1m ddIcIMzQX8Yz6lAp+XPSzg== 0000000000-05-031115.txt : 20060914 0000000000-05-031115.hdr.sgml : 20060914 20050620120333 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0000000000-05-031115 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: UPLOAD PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20050620 FILED FOR: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: QUESTAR PIPELINE CO CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000764044 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION [4922] IRS NUMBER: 870307414 STATE OF INCORPORATION: UT FISCAL YEAR END: 1231 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: UPLOAD BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 180 E 100 SOUTH STREET STREET 2: P O BOX 45360 CITY: SALT LAKE CITY STATE: UT ZIP: 84145 BUSINESS PHONE: 8013242400 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 180 E 100 SOUTH STREET STREET 2: P O BOX 45360 CITY: SALT LAKE CITY STATE: UT ZIP: 84145 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: MOUNTAIN FUEL RESOURCES INC DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19880331 LETTER 1 filename1.txt Mail Stop 3-8 June 17, 2005 Mr. S.E. Parks Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Questar Pipeline Company 180 East 100 South P.O. Box 45360 Salt Lake City, Utah 84145-0360 RE: Questar Pipeline Company Form 10-K for Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 2004 Filed March 30, 2005 File No. 0-14147 Dear Mr. Parks: We have reviewed your responses in your letter dated May 26, 2005 and have the following additional comment. Please be as detailed as necessary in your explanation so we may better understand your disclosure. After reviewing this information, we may raise additional comments. We welcome any questions you may have about our comment or on any other aspect of our review. Feel free to call us at the telephone numbers listed at the end of this letter. Form 10-K for Year Ended December 31, 2004 Notes Accompanying Consolidated Financial Statements Note 1 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies Property, Plant and Equipment 1. We have reviewed your response to comment 5 in our letter dated May 12, 2005. With a view towards enhancing your future disclosures, please provide us additional clarification regarding your accounting for fixed asset removal costs and gains and losses on the retirement of fixed assets. Ensure your response is clear in terms of whether your asset removal obligations represent retirement obligations within the scope of SFAS 143 and whether you recover the related asset retirement costs from customers through your rates. Please help us understand how your accounting complies with paragraph 20 of SFAS 143 which applies to asset retirement obligations of rate- regulated entities irrespective of whether such obligations are legal obligations within the scope of SFAS 143. It may help if you provide us sample journal entries which illustrate your accounting. As appropriate, please respond to this comment within 10 business days or tell us when you will provide us with a response. Please file your response letter as a correspondence file on EDGAR. You may contact Staff Accountant Ta Tanisha Henderson at (202) 551-3322, or in her absence, Robyn Manuel at (202) 551-3823, if you have questions regarding comments on the financial statements and related matters. Please contact me at (202) 551-3843 with any other questions. Sincerely, George F. Ohsiek, Jr. Branch Chief ?? ?? ?? ?? S. E. Parks Questar Pipeline Company June 17, 2005 Page 1 -----END PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE-----