4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-4
BASIS, PURPOSE, AND STATUTORY AUTHORITY.
The basis and purpose of these rules is to set forth the manner of regulation over jurisdictional gas utilities, the services they provide, and their actions to maintain just and reasonable rates, ensure system safety, reliability, and resiliency, protect disproportionately impacted communities, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the use of gas by their customers and from leaks in their facilities. These rules also set forth the manner of regulation over master meter operators. These rules address a wide variety of subject areas including, but not limited to, planning, expenditure and demand forecasting, cost and rate impacts, system safety and integrity planning, service interruption, meter testing and accuracy, safety, customer information, customer deposits, rate schedules and tariffs, discontinuance of service, master meter operations, transportation service, flexible regulation, procedures for administering the Low-Income Energy Assistance Act, gas service low-income programs, cost allocation between regulated and unregulated operations, recovery of gas costs, appeals regarding local government land use decisions, demand side management programs, the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from the distribution and end-use consumption of gas, and authority of the Commission to impose civil penalties on public utilities. The statutory authority for these rules can be found at §§ 29-20-108, 40-1-103.5, 40-2-108, 40-3-102, 40-3-102.5, 40-3-103, 40-3-104.3, 40-3-106, 40-3-111, 40-3-114, 40-3-101, 40-3.2-103, 40-3.2-106, 40-3.2-107, 40-3.2-108, 40-4-101, 40-4-106, 40-4-108, 40-4-109, 40-5-103, 40-7-117, 40-7-113.5, 40-7-116.5; and 40-8.7-105(5), C.R.S.
4 CCR 723-4
Rules SB&P, 4005, 4006, 4406, 4750-4760 eff. 05/30/2008.
Rules SB&P, 4900, 4901, 4902, 4905, 4910-4917, 4932, 4935, 4950-4954, 4970 eff. 11/30/2008.
Rules 4918-4921 repealed eff. 11/30/2008.
Rule 4975 emer. rule eff. 03/05/2009.
Rule 4975 emer. rule eff. 09/23/2009; expired eff. 04/21/2010.
Rules 4750-4754 eff. 11/30/2009.
Rules SB&P, 4009-4010, 4976 eff. 09/14/2010.
Rules SB&P, 4900-4932, 4950-4975, 4977-Glossary of Acronyms eff. 11/30/2011.
Rules SB&P, 4006.(f)-4006.(l), 4400, 4412 eff. 12/15/2011.
Rules 4900.(b), 4901, 4902.(a)-(c), 4903, 4905.(d), 4911.(b), 4952.(d)(I), 4953, 4954.(a) eff. 08/30/2013.
Rules 4001, 4025-4036, 4976 eff. 09/30/2015.
Rule 4412 eff. 01/30/2017.
Rules 4000-4008, 4100-4110, 4201-4210, 4300.(c), 4303.(a), 4304-4309, 4400-4412, 4501.(f), 4502-4504, 4600-4609, 4702, 4703, 4705, 4750-4758, 4760, 4801, 4803-4805 eff. 06/30/2018.
Rule 4008.(c) eff. 04/30/2019.
Rule 4412.(c) emer. rule eff. 10/18/2019.
Rule 4412.(c) eff. 05/15/2020.
Rule 4412(g)(II)(B) emer. rule eff. 12/16/2020; expired 07/14/2021.
Rules SB&P, 4000, Glossary of Acronyms eff. 03/17/2021. Rules 4900-4975 repealed eff. 03/17/2021.
Rules 4403, 4404, 4407-4409, 4976 eff. 01/14/2022.
Rule 4412 eff. 10/15/2022.