UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): December 28, 2017
Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
| Delaware | 001-35917 | 46-1972941 | ||
| (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization) |
(Commission File Number) |
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.) | ||
| 4200 W. 115th Street, Suite 350 Leawood, Kansas |
66211 | |||
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices) | (Zip Code) | |||
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (913) 928-6060
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
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| Item 5.03 | Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. |
On December 28, 2017, Tallgrass MLP GP, LLC (“TEP GP”), the general partner of Tallgrass Energy Partners, LP (the “Partnership”), entered into Amendment No. 1 (the “Amendment”) to Amended and Restated Agreement of Limited Partnership of the Partnership, dated as of May 17, 2013 (the “Partnership Agreement”), in response to certain changes to the Internal Revenue Code enacted by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 relating to partnership audit and adjustment procedures.
The foregoing description of the Amendment does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the complete text of the Amendment, a copy of which is filed as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and incorporated herein by reference.
| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On December 28, 2017, the Partnership issued a press release announcing that Continental Resources, Inc. exercised its contractual right to extend its Throughput and Deficiency Agreements to ship crude oil with Belle Fourche Pipeline Company and with the Partnership’s subsidiary, Tallgrass Pony Express Pipeline, LLC, through October 31, 2024. A copy of the press release is furnished with this Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference.
The information in this Item 7.01 of Form 8-K, including the accompanying Exhibit 99.1, shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liability of such section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933 or the Exchange Act, regardless of the general incorporation language of such filing, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
| (d) | Exhibits. |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| TALLGRASS ENERGY PARTNERS, LP | ||
| By: | Tallgrass MLP GP, LLC, | |
| its general partner | ||
| Date: December 28, 2017 | By: | /s/ David G Dehaemers, Jr. | ||||||
| David G. Dehaemers, Jr. | ||||||||
| President and Chief Executive Officer |