Florida Administrative Code › 25 - PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION › 25 - Departmental › Chapter 25-7 - GAS SERVICE BY GAS PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part VI - NATURAL GAS TRANSMISSION COMPANIES › Section 25-7.101 - Regulatory Assessment Fees; Natural Gas Transmission Companies

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) As provided in Section
				   368.109, F.S., each natural gas
				  transmission company shall pay a regulatory assessment fee. The regulatory
				  assessment fee shall be 0.25 percent annually of the natural gas transmission
				  company's gross operating revenue derived from intrastate business, excluding
				  sales of gas for resale to natural gas transmission companies, public utilities
				  that supply gas, municipal gas utilities and gas districts.
(2) Regulatory assessment fees are due each
				  January 30 for the preceding 6 month period or any part of the period from July
				  1 until December 31, and on July 30 for the preceding 6 month period or any
				  part of the period from January 1 until June 30.
(3) If the due date falls on a Saturday,
				  Sunday, or a legal holiday, the due date is extended to the next business day.
				  If the fees are sent by registered mail, the date of the registration is the
				  United States Postal Service's postmark date. If the fees are sent by certified
				  mail and the receipt is postmarked by a postal employee, the date on the
				  receipt is the United States Postal Service's postmark date. The postmarked
				  certified mail receipt is evidence that the fees were delivered. Regulatory
				  assessment fees are considered paid on the date they are postmarked by the
				  United States Postal Service or received and logged in by the Commission's
				  Division of Administrative and Information Technology Services in Tallahassee.
				  Fees are considered timely paid if properly addressed, with sufficient postage,
				  and postmarked no later than the due date.
(4) Commission Form PSC/AFD 244 (02/98),
				  entitled "Natural Gas Transmission Pipeline Company Regulatory Assessment Fee
				  Return" is incorporated into this rule by reference and is available at:
http://www.flrules.org/Gateway/reference.asp?No=Ref-02615
.
				  This form may also be obtained from the Commission's Division of Administrative
				  and Information Technology Services. The failure of a utility to receive a
				  return form shall not excuse the utility from its obligation to timely remit
				  the regulatory assessment fees.
(5)
				  Each natural gas transmission company shall have up to and including the due
				  date in which to remit the total amount of its fee.
(6) Where the natural gas transmission
				  company remits less than its full fee, the remainder of the full fee shall be
				  due on or before the 30th day from the due date and shall, where the amount
				  remitted was less than 90 percent of the total regulatory assessment fee,
				  include interest as provided by paragraph (8)(b) of this rule.
(7) A company may request either a 15-day or
				  a 30-day extension of its due date for payment of regulatory assessment fees or
				  for filing its return form by submitting to the Division of Administrative and
				  Information Technology Services Commission Form PSC/AIT 124 (12/11) entitled
				  "Regulatory Assessment Fee Extension Request, " which is incorporated by
				  reference in Rule  25-7.0131, F.A.C. This form may
				  also be obtained from the Commission's Division of Administrative and
				  Information Technology Services.
(a) The
				  request for extension must be received by the Division of Administrative and
				  Information Technology Services at least two weeks before the due
				  date.
(b) The request for extension
				  will not be granted if the utility has any unpaid regulatory assessment fees,
				  penalties, or interest due from a prior period.
(c) Where a utility receives either a 15-day
				  or a 30-day extension of its due date pursuant to this rule, the utility shall
				  remit a charge as set out in Section
				   350.113(5),
				  F.S., in addition to the regulatory assessment fee.