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In Order No. 809, the Commission revised its regulations to better coordinate the scheduling of wholesale natural gas and electricity markets in light of increased reliance on natural gas for electric generation, as well as to provide additional scheduling flexibility to all shippers on interstate natural gas pipelines. The revised regulations in this Final Rule modified the scheduling practices used by interstate pipelines to schedule natural gas transportation service and provide additional contracting flexibility to firm natural gas transportation customers through the use of multi-party transportation contracts. The revisions in this Final Rule, together with the Commission’s action in certain related proceedings, will better ensure the reliable and efficient operation of both the interstate natural gas pipeline and electricity systems. Among other things, Order No. 809 expanded the number of intraday nomination cycles from the current two to three and incorporated by reference into the Commission’s regulations certain modified standards developed and filed by the North American Energy Standards Board (NAESB) that revised the standard nomination timeline for interstate natural gas pipelines. In the Order on Request for Clarification and Notice of Comment Procedures, the Commission granted a request to clarify the manner in which the pipelines should implement the standards and requested comment on a proposal that the Commission establish default provisions regarding transitioning capacity release contracts with the right to recall capacity (Docket Nos. RM14-2-001 and RM14-2-002).