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CA Pub Util Code § 783.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 783.5.

783.5.  (a) For purposes of this section, the following terms have the following meanings: (1) “Disadvantaged community” means a San Joaquin Valley community that meets all of the following criteria:(A) At least 25 percent of residential households with electrical service are enrolled in the CARE program pursuant to Section 739.1.(B) Has a population greater than 100 persons within its geographic boundaries as identified by the most recent United States Census or a community survey.(C) Has geographic boundaries no farther than seven miles from the nearest natural gas pipeline operated by a gas corporation.(2) “San Joaquin Valley” means the counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare.(b) No later than March 31, 2015, the commission shall initiate a new proceeding to do all of the following:(1) Identify disadvantaged communities based on the criteria specified in subdivision (a).(2) Analyze the economic feasibility of the following options:(A) Extending natural gas pipelines to those disadvantaged communities.(B) Increasing subsidies for electricity for residential customers in those disadvantaged communities.(C) Other alternatives that would increase access to affordable energy in those disadvantaged communities that the commission deems appropriate.(c) The commission shall determine whether any of the options analyzed in the proceeding would increase access to affordable energy in a cost-effective manner. For these options, the commission shall take appropriate action and determine appropriate funding sources.(Added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 616, Sec. 2. (AB 2672) Effective January 1, 2015.)
CA Pub Util Code § 784 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 784.

784.  For each gas corporation, the commission shall adopt pipeline access rules that ensure that each gas corporation provides nondiscriminatory open access to its gas pipeline system to any party for the purposes of physically interconnecting with the gas pipeline system and effectuating the delivery of gas.(Added by Stats. 2012, Ch. 602, Sec. 6. (AB 1900) Effective January 1, 2013.)
CA Pub Util Code § 784.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 784.2.

784.2.  Before the exhaustion of the funds made available pursuant to the monetary incentive program for biomethane projects adopted in Decision 15-06-029 (June 11, 2015), Decision Regarding the Costs of Compliance with Decision 14-01-034 and Adoption of Biomethane Promotion Policies and Program, and no later than July 1, 2019, the commission shall open a proceeding to consider options to further the goals of Section 399.24, including consideration of whether to allow recovery in rates of the costs of investments to do each of the following:(a) Ensure that prudent and reasonable investments for infrastructure pursuant to subdivisions (b) and (c) provide a direct benefit, such as safety, reliability, affordability, or reducing emissions of greenhouse gases, to all classes of ratepayers and are in the interests of all classes of ratepayers.(b) Facilitate direct investment in the procurement and installation of utility infrastructure necessary to achieve interconnection between the natural gas transmission and distribution pipeline network and biomethane generation and collection equipment, and of gathering lines for a dairy cluster biomethane project.(c) Provide for the installation of utility infrastructure to achieve interconnection with facilities that generate biomethane.(Amended by Stats. 2018, Ch. 598, Sec. 1. (AB 3187) Effective January 1, 2019.)
CA Pub Util Code § 785 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 785.

785.  To the extent consistent with federal law and regulation and contractual obligations regarding other available gas, the commission shall, in consultation with the Division of Oil and Gas of the Department of Conservation and with the Energy Commission, encourage, as a first priority, the increased production of gas in this state, including gas produced from that area of the Pacific Ocean along the coast of California commonly known as the outer continental shelf, and shall require, after a hearing, every gas corporation to purchase that gas which is compatible with the corporation’s gas plant and which is produced in this state having an actual delivered cost, measured in equivalent heat units, equal to or less than other available gas, unless this requirement will result in higher overall costs of gas or other consequences adverse to the interests of gas customers.(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 396, Sec. 28. (AB 1513) Effective January 1, 2020.)
CA Pub Util Code § 785.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 785.1.

785.1.  (a) The commission shall require, after a hearing, every gas corporation to revise its transportation tariffs and conditions of service to eliminate all components that assess shippers of gas produced in California for the costs of interstate transmission of gas produced outside of this state. These revisions shall eliminate direct or indirect charges for the interstate transportation of gas produced outside of this state, commonly referred to as “double demand” charges.(b) The commission shall consider and approve tariffs consistent with subdivision (a) on or before October 1, 1994.(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the commission from approving intrastate transmission tariffs which include interstate transition cost surcharges, as described in commission decisions 91-11-025 and 92-07-025, in an appropriate manner.(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 732, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1994.)
CA Pub Util Code § 785.2 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 785.2.

785.2.  The commission shall investigate, as part of the rate proceeding for any gas corporation, impediments to the in-state production and storage of natural gas. The commission may adopt a tariff that encourages in-state production or storage of natural gas, including, but not limited to, reducing local transmission rates applicable to in-state gas blends, unless the commission finds that adopting the tariff will likely result in consequences adverse to the interests of gas customers.(Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 771, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 2002.)
CA Pub Util Code § 785.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 785.5.

785.5.  (a) The commission shall require every gas corporation to adopt and pursue purchasing and procurement practices which assure its customers the lowest rates consistent with security of supply and with Section 785.(b) Pursuant to subdivision (a), the commission may establish and periodically revise for each gas corporation guidelines for priorities among suppliers and sources of supply of gas to gas corporations, taking into consideration the requirements of Section 785. The establishment of these guidelines does not relieve a gas corporation of any requirement to make reasonable and prudent purchases of gas or diminish the authority of the commission to review the reasonableness of any purchase or procurement decision of the corporation.(Added by Stats. 1985, Ch. 1380, Sec. 3.)
CA Pub Util Code § 785.7 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 785.7.

785.7.  (a) No gas corporation shall charge, directly or indirectly, a higher rate for the transportation of gas produced in this state than for the transportation of gas from any other source. No gas corporation shall require a producer of gas or a customer for whom any gas transportation service is performed to utilize the corporation’s services or facilities either to deliver gas from the producer’s facility to the corporation’s gas plant or to process the gas to render it compatible with the corporation’s gas plant.(b) If a producer of gas or customer delivers to the gas corporation for transportation any gas requiring any processing service, including, but not limited to, dehydration, processing for extraction of liquids, or other purification, different from, or in addition to, that performed on other gas in the corporation’s gas plant, in order for that gas to be compatible with the gas plant, the gas corporation may impose a charge for any such service actually performed. If the gas corporation constructs new facilities at the request of the producer or customer exclusively to receive gas by the gas corporation’s gas plant, the gas corporation may impose a charge for the construction, operation, and maintenance of these facilities. The amount of the charge for the processing service or facilities authorized by this subdivision shall be established by the commission and shall be based on the actual expenses for the construction, operation, maintenance, labor, materials, and overhead involved in providing the specific service or facilities.(c) For purposes of this section, “transportation” means the movement of gas from the point of receiving by the gas plant of a gas corporation to the point of delivery to the person or corporation for whom the transportation service is performed, including any related gathering or processing of the gas. The point of receiving by the gas plant is that point in the gas corporation’s existing plant which is nearest the source of the gas and which has receiving capacity, but does not include any new facility constructed by the gas corporation at the request of the producer or customer exclusively to receive that gas. The terms and conditions of receiving, for these purposes, shall be comparable to the gas corporation’s purchase contracts in the general area of the point of receiving.(d) Subdivision (a) does not apply to exchanges of gas between a gas corporation and a producer of gas.(e) The commission shall allow the gas corporation to fully recover all reasonable and prudent costs associated with ownership and operation of the gas plant used for transportation.(Added by Stats. 1988, Ch. 733, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Util Code § 787 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 787.

787.  (a) Any public utility, or its contractor, to whom an excavation permit has been issued by any local agency for the installation, removal, maintenance, or repair of underground facilities may backfill the permitted excavation in any public road or highway with native spoil if all of the following conditions are met: (1) The native spoil is competent spoil. (2) Compaction meets the local agency’s requirements using industry standards for testing compaction. (3) The public utility or its contractor has no physical evidence of, or substantial reason to believe that there has been, contamination of the soil from hazardous wastes. (4) Within 30 days prior to compaction, a local agency has not provided the public utility or its contractor with physical evidence of, or substantial reason to believe that there has been, contamination of the soil from hazardous wastes. (b) If a local agency has determined through prior experience that the public utility that is applying for, or benefiting from, the excavation permit has previously neglected to adequately fill or compact prior excavations, whether directly or through its contractors, the local agency may, as a condition of the excavation permit do either or both of the following: (1) Require the public utility to post a bond, with a term not exceeding one year, amounting to two times the cost for the local agency to repair the backfill work, if done improperly, or any related collateral damage. (2) Require the public utility to submit a report from a registered soils engineer that the proper compaction of the excavation has been achieved. (c) For purposes of this section: (1) “Competent spoil” means soils that can be treated to bring their moisture content into the optimum range, and that can achieve the compaction required by the local agency. (2) “Local agency” means any city or county agency. (3) “Public utility” means any electrical corporation, gas corporation, heat corporation, water corporation, telephone corporation, pipeline corporation, sewer corporation, telegraph corporation, where the service is performed for, or the commodity delivered to, the public or any portion thereof.(Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 1060, Sec. 2.)
CA Pub Util Code § 788 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3 - Equipment, Practices, and Facilities|Section 788.

788.  (a) This section applies only to a telephone corporation that is a provider of local exchange service.(b) On or before March 1, 1992, and annually thereafter, every telephone corporation that is a provider of local exchange service shall issue to each of its residential subscribers, in a manner and form approved by the commission, a notice containing the following information:(1) An explanation of the responsibilities of the subscriber and the telephone corporation in relation to the customer’s inside telephone wiring, as that term is defined by and pursuant to Section 1941.4 of the Civil Code, including an explanation of lessor and tenant obligations.(2) An explanation of the telephone corporation’s procedures and charges for determining and notifying the subscriber of whether a malfunction in its telephone wire is located in the telephone network, or is located in the subscriber’s inside telephone wiring, including customer-provided equipment.(3) If the telephone corporation offers any services to maintain or repair a subscriber’s inside telephone wiring, a full description of the types of services offered, including the rates, charges, and conditions for these services, and whether those services are offered by nonutility providers.(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 1005, Sec. 51. Effective January 1, 2000.)
CA Pub Util Code § 789 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3.5 - Water Utility Infrastructure, Plant and Facilities|Section 789.

789.  This article shall be known and may be cited as the Water Utility Infrastructure Improvement Act of 1995.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 431, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Pub Util Code § 789.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3.5 - Water Utility Infrastructure, Plant and Facilities|Section 789.1.

789.1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(a) Water corporations currently are faced with, and will continue to be faced with, increasing demands for new infrastructure, plant, and facilities to comply with increasingly strict state and federal safe drinking water laws and regulations.(b) The state’s limited water supply will require investment by water corporations in infrastructure, plant, and facilities to develop new sources of supply, make existing sources of supply more reliable, and encourage and implement water conservation measures including water reclamation and reuse.(c) Water corporations also are faced with the need to replace or upgrade water infrastructure, plant, and facilities and to design and construct all of those replacements and improvements to meet the governing fire flow standards for public fire protection purposes.(d) Water corporations may, from time to time, own real property that once was, but is no longer, necessary or useful in the provision of water utility service and that now may be sold. It is the policy of the state that water corporations be encouraged to dispose of real property that once was, but is no longer, necessary or useful in the provision of water utility service and to invest the net proceeds therefrom in utility infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties that are necessary or useful in the provision of water service to the public.(e) It is the policy of the state that any net proceeds from the sale by a water corporation of real property that was at any time, but is no longer, necessary or useful in the provision of public utility service, shall be invested by a water corporation in infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public and that all of that investment in infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties shall be included among the other utility property of the water corporation that is used and useful in providing water service and upon which the commission authorizes the water corporation the opportunity to earn a reasonable return.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 431, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Pub Util Code § 790 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3.5 - Water Utility Infrastructure, Plant and Facilities|Section 790.

790.  (a) Whenever a water corporation sells any real property that was at any time, but is no longer, necessary or useful in the performance of the water corporation’s duties to the public, the water corporation shall invest the net proceeds, if any, including interest at the rate that the commission prescribes for memorandum accounts, from the sale in water system infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties that are necessary or useful in the performance of its duties to the public. For purposes of tracking the net proceeds and their investment, the water corporation shall maintain records necessary to document the investment of the net proceeds pursuant to this article. The amount of the net proceeds shall be a water corporation’s primary source of capital for investment in utility infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties that are necessary or useful in the performance of the water corporation’s duties in providing water utility service to the public.(b) All water utility infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties constructed or acquired by, and used and useful to, a water corporation by investment pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be included among the water corporation’s other utility property upon which the commission authorizes the water corporation the opportunity to earn a reasonable return.(c) This article shall apply to the investment of the net proceeds referred to in subdivision (a) for a period of 8 years from the end of the calendar year in which the water corporation receives the net proceeds. The balance of any net proceeds and interest thereon that is not invested after the eight-year period shall be allocated solely to ratepayers.(d) Upon application by a water corporation with 10,000 or fewer service connections, the commission may, after a hearing, by rule or order, exempt the water corporation from the requirements of this article.(e) The commission retains continuing authority to determine the used, useful, or necessary status of any and all infrastructure improvements and investments.(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 431, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1996.)
CA Pub Util Code § 790.1 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 3.5 - Water Utility Infrastructure, Plant and Facilities|Section 790.1.

790.1.  In any proceeding pending after January 1, 1996, the commission shall apply this article in its consideration of any matter concerning the sale by a water corporation of real property that is not necessary or useful in the provision of water utility service, for any sale that occurred prior to that date. If the water corporation has not invested the net proceeds therefrom in utility infrastructure, plant, facilities, and properties that are necessary or useful in the provision of water service to the public, it may elect to do so during the period provided in subdivision (c) of Section 790 and that period shall be deemed to have commenced as of January 1, 1996.(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 965, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1997.)
CA Pub Util Code § 791 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 4 - Books and Accounts|Section 791.

791.  Each public utility shall have an office in a county of this State in which its property or some portion thereof is located and shall keep in that office all the books, accounts, papers, and records required by the commission to be kept within this State. No such books, accounts, papers, or records shall be at any time removed from the State except upon such conditions as the commission prescribes.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)
CA Pub Util Code § 792 (2021)
2021 California Code|Public Utilities Code - PUC|DIVISION 1 - REGULATION OF PUBLIC UTILITIES|PART 1 - PUBLIC UTILITIES ACT|CHAPTER 4 - Regulation of Public Utilities|ARTICLE 4 - Books and Accounts|Section 792.

792.  The commission may establish a system of accounts to be kept by the public utilities subject to its jurisdiction, or classify such public utilities and establish a system of accounts for each class, and may prescribe the manner in which such accounts shall be kept. It may also prescribe the forms of accounts, records, and memoranda to be kept by such public utilities, including the accounts, records, and memoranda of the movement of traffic as well as the receipts and expenditures of moneys, and any other forms, records, and memoranda which in the judgment of the commission may be necessary to carry out any of the provisions of this part.(Enacted by Stats. 1951, Ch. 764.)