Randall S Rich

Practice Areas

Randy Rich guides clients through the rapidly changing regulation of the natural gas and oil industry at the federal and state level, providing sophisticated counseling and representation in contested proceedings, multiparty settlements, applications, rulemakings, and enforcement investigations.

Randy represents all segments of the energy and utility industries before the FERC, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and state public utility commissions. He provides comprehensive legal counsel on natural gas regulation and policy, pipeline and utility ratemaking, tariffs, certificates and abandonment; natural gas transportation, gathering, marketing and trading; Natural Gas Act exemptions for Hinshaw pipelines, production and gathering, and plant lines; enforcement of and compliance with the Natural Gas Act (NGA), Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 (NGPA), and FERC regulations including compliance counseling and training; natural gas business transactions and contracting, including NAESB agreements; Presidential Permits for cross-border facilities; DOE energy grants, loans, and loan guarantees; renewable natural gas transactions; pipeline interconnections; and oil pipeline regulation and waivers under the Interstate Commerce Act (ICA).

Randy works with the firm's natural gas, oil, and petroleum products clients before FERC and in related matters, including marketer/trader, producer and end-user clients and New England-based gas pipelines, LDCs and end users with a significant and growing interest in natural gas, renewable natural gas project developers, and crude oil and products producers, shippers and pipeline owners. He also has worked with consultants to foreign governments to draft new natural gas laws.

Randy is a member of Pierce Atwood's Pro Bono Committee, and is Partner-In-Charge of the Washington, DC office.

Career

Randy began his career in FERC's Office of General Counsel.