4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-4-4551
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 22, November 25, 2024
Section 4 CCR 723-4-4551 - Definitions(a) "Customer-owned yard line" means any customer-owned gas line running underground from the utility meter to a customer's home, business, or other customer end use.(b) "Defined programmatic expense" means a programmatic expense that, in the aggregate, falls within the oversight of a utility's application for issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity or approval of a gas infrastructure plan. Defined programmatic expense means company-wide programmatic investment in activities related to relocation or replacement of meters and customer-owned yard lines, or as otherwise ordered by the Commission.(c) "Gas infrastructure plan action period" means a three-year period beginning January 1st of the year in which the gas infrastructure plan application filing is made.(d) "Gas infrastructure plan informational period" means the three-year period following the gas infrastructure plan action period.(e) "Gas infrastructure plan total period" means the gas infrastructure plan action period and the gas infrastructure plan informational period.(f) "Planned project" means any planned facility or an extension of an existing facility, or a defined programmatic expense with a defined scope of work and associated cost estimate that exceeds $3 million in utility capital investment in 2020 dollars, or $2 million in utility capital investment in 2020 dollars for gas utilities with less than 50,000 full-service customers, as adjusted annually for inflation. (I) The dollar thresholds in paragraph (f) shall be adjusted for inflation annually on March 1 of each year, based upon the annual percentage change in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index - Denver-Aurora-Lakewood as published by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs for the immediately preceding calendar year. These adjustments shall be compounded annually. For reference, the Commission will post a notice on its website, https://puc.colorado.gov/, by March 15 of each year reporting the annual inflation adjustments applicable pursuant to this rule.