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Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.3 - Expenses to Be Included in Direct Assessments

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Direct assessments include the following expenses:
(1) Salaries of commission employees and
				related costs borne by the state.
(2) Travel expenses incurred in an
				investigation or in rendering services by the commission or by others employed
				by the commission. Travel expenses include costs of transportation, lodging,
				meals and other normal expenses attributable to traveling.
(3) Costs of consultants, contractors,
				facilities, and equipment if directly related to a proceeding or
				matter.
(4) Overhead expenses of
				the commission.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.4 - Direct Assessments Under Iowa Code Section 476.10

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(1) The following persons shall not be
				directly assessed for participating in a commission proceeding or matter unless
				the commission issues an order finding that the person may be directly assessed
				for that participation:
a. An individual who
				files a complaint against a public utility, so long as the individual's
				participation in the proceeding is in good faith.
b. An individual who files a protest or
				inquiry or intervenes in a proceeding involving a rate change by a public
				utility, so long as the individual's participation in the proceeding is in good
				faith.
c. Any person filing written
				or oral comments in a rule-making proceeding.
d. An intervenor in a commission proceeding.
				However, the commission may decide to directly assess a person who intervenes
				if the commission determines that the person's intervention or participation is
				not in good faith, the commission determines the intervention significantly
				expands the scope of the proceeding without contribution to the public
				interest, or the commission determines there are unusual circumstances
				warranting assessment.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.5 - Reporting of Operating Revenues

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On or before April 1 of each year, every public utility shall
				  file with the commission a report that includes the utility's gross operating
				  revenues from Iowa intrastate operations during the preceding calendar year.
				  Such revenues are to be reported on the accrual basis or the cash basis
				  consistent with the report filed with the commission.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.6 - Compilation and Billing of Assessment

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(1) The commission shall determine its own
				expenses to be billed and shall add the certified expenses incurred by the
				consumer advocate. The commission does not review the expenses certified to it
				by the consumer advocate.
(2)
				Unless otherwise ordered by the commission, bills must be paid within 30 days
				of receipt unless an objection is filed in writing pursuant to Iowa Code
				section 476.10. In the event an objection is filed under rule
				199-17.10(475A,476), the portion of the bill not contested must be paid within
				30 days of receipt. The commission shall develop procedures for the collection
				of unpaid bills.
(3) A person
				participating in a commission proceeding or matter may file a request in that
				proceeding or matter for the commission to determine how the expenses of that
				proceeding or matter will be assessed.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.7 - Funding of Iowa Energy Center and Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research

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The commission will send a bill to each gas and electric
				  utility for funding the Iowa energy center and center for global and regional
				  environmental research. Within 30 days of receipt of the bill, each gas and
				  electric utility shall remit to the utilities division of the department of
				  commerce a check made payable to the treasurer of state for one-tenth of one
				  percent of the total gross operating revenue during the last calendar year
				  derived from its intrastate public utility operations for the funding of the
				  Iowa energy center and center for global and regional environmental
				  research.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.8 - Assessments Under Iowa Code Section 476.95b

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(1) This rule applies to assessments under
				Iowa Code section 476.95B.
(2) In
				making assessments under Iowa Code section 476.95B, the commission will
				allocate costs and expenses to all parties and participants. The allocation
				will not necessarily be an equal allocation.
(3) The specific method of allocation will be
				made on a case-by-case basis, and will be included in the final order in the
				docket, unless otherwise ordered by the commission.
(4) The factors the commission will consider
				may include, but are not limited to, Iowa revenues, grouping of parties and
				participants on the basis of position on the issues, and the factors under rule
				199- 17.4(476). Joint participation by parties with similar positions on the
				issue will be encouraged by favorable allocations.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.9 - Assessments of Expenses for Dual Party Relay Service Program and Equipment Distribution Program

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(1) Wireless
				carriers and wireline local exchange carriers providing telecommunications
				services in Iowa shall comply with Iowa Code section 477C.7 for payment of
				assessments to fund the dual party relay service program and equipment
				distribution program. Those carriers shall pay assessments in the amount of
				three cents per month for each telecommunications service phone number.
				"Telecommunications service phone number" means a revenue-producing telephone
				number.
(2) Wireless carriers and
				wireline local exchange carriers shall file the number of telecommunications
				service phone numbers with the payment required by Iowa Code section 477C.7.
				The number of telecommunications service phone numbers may be filed as
				confidential and may be withheld from public inspection pursuant to the
				procedures in 199-subrule 1.9(8).
(3) The commission shall periodically audit
				the payment of Iowa Code section 477C.7 assessments for any purpose the
				commission deems necessary, including, but not limited to, examining whether
				wireless carriers and wireline local exchange carriers providing
				telecommunications services in Iowa are paying assessments in appropriate
				amounts.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 17 - Assessments › Rule 199-17.11 - Refunds

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If a person makes a payment in excess of the assessed amount,
				  the commission may issue a refund to the person for the excess amount or credit
				  the excess amount toward the person's next assessment. For overpayments of less
				  than $50, absent exigent circumstances, the commission will not issue a refund
				  and will hold the excess amount as a credit toward the person's next assessment
				  through the fiscal year in which the overpayment occurred. If a credit remains
				  at the end of the fiscal year in which the overpayment occurred, the commission
				  will issue a refund for any excess amount remaining.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.1 - Definitions

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The following terms, when used in this chapter, have the
				  meanings shown below:
"FERC rules"
means the rules and regulations
				  of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission under the Federal Power Act and
				  Natural Gas Act as published in the CFR.
"NARUC guidelines"
means the guidelines
				  published by the National Association of Regulatory Utility
				  Commissioners.
"RUS rules"
means the rules and regulations
				  of the Rural Utilities Service of the United States Department of Agriculture,
				  7 CFR Part 1767, applicable to electric and telephone borrowers of the RUS
				  under the terms of their mortgages to the RUS.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.2 - Location of Records

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All records kept pursuant to any rules of the commission, or
				  necessary for the administration thereof, shall be kept or made accessible
				  within this state unless otherwise authorized by the commission,
				  including:
(1) The utility's
				tariffs.
(2) A record of the
				telephone number and business location of the utility's administrative,
				technical, and operating personnel within the state.
(3) The most recent inspection
				report.
(4) The most recent rate
				case filing.
(5) Annual reports for
				the past five years.
(6)
				Shareholder's reports for the past five years.
(7) Form IG-1 (gas utilities).
(8) Form IE-1 (electric utilities).
(9) Information regarding the location of
				other books, records, and accounts to be maintained or made accessible pursuant
				to statute or rule.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.3 - Availability of Records

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All records kept pursuant to any rules of the commission that
				  are of a general corporate nature or otherwise pertain to the utility's
				  operations as a whole shall be made available for examination by the commission
				  during normal business hours, unless otherwise authorized by the commission.
				  Upon receipt by a utility of a formal request in writing from the commission
				  for records or information pertaining to records required by any commission
				  rule, the utility shall provide the requested information to the commission
				  within 15 days of receiving the written request from the commission unless the
				  utility files an objection to the request or a request for an extension of time
				  within seven days of the utility's receipt of the information request. The
				  objection or request for extension of time shall be filed in writing and state
				  the concise grounds for relief. If the commission finds that the objection or
				  request for extension of time does not have merit, the information originally
				  requested shall be provided immediately upon receiving notice of the
				  commission's decision.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.4 - Electric Utilities Other Than Rural Electric Cooperatives

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(1)
Units of
				property.
Rate-regulated electric utilities shall maintain an
				accounting system for Units of Property in Accounting for Additions and
				Retirements of Electric Plant in accordance with the "Uniform systems of
				accounts-electric rules" rule in 199-Chapter 16.
(2)
Preservation of records.
All electric utilities subject to regulation by the commission shall preserve
				the records of their operations in accordance with the provisions of Part 125
				of the FERC rules,  18 CFR Part 125, Preservation of Records of Public Utilities
				and Licensees, as issued on August 15, 2000. Rate-regulated companies shall
				further ensure the preservation of records of associated companies, whether or
				not the associated companies are themselves utilities, as necessary to support
				the cost of services rendered to the utility by the associated
				companies.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.5 - Rural Electric Cooperatives

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(1)
Units of
				property.
Rural electric cooperatives (RECs) subject to rate
				regulation by the commission shall adopt the RUS rules contained in 7 CFR Part
				1767 published May 27, 2008. The REC shall maintain sufficient records to
				support additions to plant, retirement units, and replacements of electric
				plant, in accordance with  7 CFR Section 1767.10, Definitions;  7 CFR Section 1767.15, General Instructions;  7 CFR Section 1767.16, Electric Plant
				Instructions; and  7 CFR Section 1767.20, Plant Accounts.
(2)
Preservation of records.
RECs shall preserve the records of their operations in accordance with the
				provisions of the RUS rules contained in RUS Bulletin 180-2, Record Retention
				Recommendations for RUS Electric Borrowers, issued June 26, 2003.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.6 - Gas Utilities

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(1)
Units of
				property.
Rate-regulated gas utilities shall maintain an accounting
				system for Units of Property in Accounting for Additions and Retirements of Gas
				Plant in accordance with the "Uniform systems of accounts-electric rules" rule
				in 199-Chapter 16.
(2)
Preservation of records.
All gas utilities subject to
				regulation by the commission shall preserve the records of their operations in
				accordance with the provisions of FERC rules,  18 CFR Part 225, Preservation of
				Records of Natural Gas Companies, as issued August 15, 2000. Rate-regulated
				companies shall further ensure the preservation of records of associated
				companies, whether or not the associated companies are themselves utilities, as
				necessary to support the cost of services rendered to the utility by the
				associated companies.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 18 - Utility Records › Rule 199-18.7 - Water, Sanitary Sewage, and Storm Water Drainage Utilities

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(1)
Units of
				property.
Rate-regulated water, sanitary sewage, and storm water
				drainage utilities shall maintain an accounting system for Units of Property in
				Accounting for Additions and Retirements of Water Plant in accordance with the
				"Uniform systems of accounts-electric rules" rule in 199-Chapter 16.
(2)
Preservation of records.
All water, sanitary sewage, and storm water drainage utilities subject to
				regulation by the commission shall preserve the records of their operations in
				accordance with the provisions of the NARUC guidelines: Regulations to Govern
				the Preservation of Records of Electric, Gas and Water Utilities, revised
				October 2007 edition. Regulated water, sanitary sewage, and storm water
				drainage utilities shall further ensure the preservation of records of
				associated companies, whether or not the associated companies are themselves
				utilities, as necessary to support the cost of services rendered to the utility
				by the associated companies.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.3 - General Service Requirements

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(1)
Disposition of gas.
The meter and any service line pressure
				regulator shall be owned by the utility. The utility shall place a visible seal
				on all meters and service line regulators in customer use, such that the seal
				must be broken to gain entry.
a. All gas sold
				by a utility shall be on the basis of meter measurement except:
(1) Where the consumption of gas may be
				readily computed without metering; or
(2) For temporary service
				installations.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.4 - Customer Relations

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(1)
Customer information.
Each utility shall:
a. Maintain up-to-date maps, plans or records
				of its entire transmission and distribution systems, with such other
				information as may be necessary to enable the utility to advise prospective
				customers, and others entitled to the information, as to the facilities
				available for serving customers in its service area.
b. Assist the customer or prospective
				customer in selecting the most economical rate schedule available for the
				proposed type of service.
c. Notify
				customers affected by a change in rates or schedule classification in the
				manner provided in the rules of practice and procedure before the commission.
				(199-26.5(476))
d. Post a notice in
				a conspicuous place in each office of the utility where applications for
				service are received, informing the public that copies of the rate schedules
				and rules relating to the service of the utility, as filed with the commission,
				are available for public inspection. If the utility provides access to its rate
				schedules and rules for service on its website, the notice shall include the
				website address.
e. Upon request,
				inform its customers as to the method of reading meters.
f. State, on the bill form, that tariff and
				rate schedule information is available upon request at the utility's local
				business office. If the utility provides access to its tariff and rate
				schedules on its website, the statement shall include the website
				address.
g. Upon request, transmit
				a statement of either the customer's actual consumption, or degree day adjusted
				consumption, at the company's option, of natural gas for each billing period
				during the prior 12 months.
h.
				Furnish such additional information as the customer may reasonably
				request.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.5 - Engineering Practice

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(1)
Requirement for good engineering practice.
The gas plant of
				the utility shall be constructed, installed, maintained and operated in
				accordance with accepted good engineering practice in the gas industry to
				assure, as far as reasonably possible, continuity of service, uniformity in the
				quality of service furnished, and the safety of persons and property.
(2)
Standards incorporated by
				reference.
a. The design,
				construction, operation, and maintenance of gas systems and liquefied natural
				gas facilities shall be in accordance with the following standards where
				applicable:
(1)  49 CFR Part 191, "Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline; Annual Reports, Incident
				Reports, and Safety-Related Condition Reports."
(2)  49 CFR Part 192, "Transportation of
				Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline: Minimum Federal Safety Standards."
(3)  49 CFR Part 193, "Liquefied Natural Gas
				Facilities: Federal Safety Standards."
(4)  49 CFR Part 199, "Drug and Alcohol
				Testing."
(5) ASME B31.8 - 2016,
				"Gas Transmission and Distribution Piping Systems."
(6) NFPA 59-2018, "Utility LP-Gas Plant
				Code."
(7) At railroad crossings,
				rule 199-42.7 (476), "Engineering standards for pipelines."
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.6 - Metering

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(1)
Inspection and testing program.
Each utility shall adopt a
				written program for the inspection and testing of its meters to determine the
				necessity for adjustment, replacement or repair. The frequency of inspection
				and methods of testing shall be based on the utility's experience,
				manufacturer's recommendations, and accepted good practice. The commission
				considers the publications listed in 19.6(3) to be representative of accepted
				good practice. Each utility shall maintain inspection and testing records for
				each meter and associated device until three years after its
				retirement.
(2)
Program
				content.
The written program shall, at minimum, address the following
				subject areas:
a. Classification of meters by
				capacity, type, and any other factor considered pertinent.
b. Checking of new meters for acceptable
				accuracy before being placed in service.
c. Testing of in-service meters, including
				any associated instruments or corrective devices, for accuracy, adjustments or
				repairs. This may be accomplished by periodic tests at specified intervals or
				on the basis of a statistical sampling plan, but shall include meters removed
				from service for any reason.
d.
				Periodic calibration or testing of devices or instruments used by the utility
				to test meters.
e. Leak testing of
				meters before return to service.
f.
				The limits of meter accuracy considered acceptable by the utility.
g. The nature of meter and meter test records
				maintained by the utility.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.7 - Standards of Quality of Service

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(1)
Purity requirements.
All gas supplied to customers shall be
				substantially free of impurities which may cause corrosion of mains or piping
				or from corrosive or harmful fumes when burned in a properly designed and
				adjusted burner.
(2)
Pressure limits.
The maximum allowable operating pressure for
				a low-pressure distribution system shall not be so high as to cause the unsafe
				operation of any connected and properly adjusted low-pressure gas-burning
				equipment.
(3)
Adequacy for
				pressure.
Each utility shall have a substantially accurate knowledge
				of the pressures inside its piping. Periodic pressure measurements shall be
				taken during periods of high demand at remote locations in distribution systems
				to determine the adequacy of service. Records of such measurements including
				the date, time, and location of the measurement shall be maintained not less
				than two years.
(4)
Standards for pressure measurements.
a.
Secondary standards.
Each
				utility shall own or have access to a dead weight tester. This instrument must
				be maintained in an accurate condition.
b.
Working standards.
Each
				utility must have or have access to water manometers, laboratory quality
				indicating pressure gauges, and field-type dead weight pressure gauges as
				necessary for the proper testing of the indicating and recording pressure
				gauges used in determining the pressure on the utility's system. Working
				standards must be checked periodically by comparison with a secondary
				standard.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.8 - Safety

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(1)
Acceptable standards.
As criteria of accepted good safety
				practice the commission will use the applicable provisions of the standard
				listed in 19.5(2).
(2)
Protective measures.
Each utility shall exercise reasonable
				care to reduce hazards inherent in connection with utility service to which its
				employees, its customers, and the general public may be subjected and shall
				adopt and execute a safety program designed to protect the public, fitted to
				the size and type of its operations. The utility shall give reasonable
				assistance to the commission in the investigation of the cause of accidents and
				in the determination of suitable means of preventing accidents. Each utility
				shall maintain a summary of all reportable accidents arising from its
				operations.
(3)
Turning on
				gas.
Each utility upon the installation of a meter and turning on gas
				or the act of turning on gas alone shall take the necessary steps to assure
				itself that there exists no flow of gas through the meter which is a warning
				that the customer's piping or appliances are not safe for gas turn on (Ref:
				Sec. 8.2. 3 and Annex D, ANSI Z223.1/NFPA 54-2018).
(4)
Gas leaks.
A report of a
				gas leak shall be considered as an emergency requiring immediate
				attention.
(5)
Odorization.
Any gas distributed to customers through gas
				mains or gas services or used for domestic purposes in compressor plants, which
				does not naturally possess a distinctive odor to the extent that its presence
				in the atmosphere is readily detectable at all gas concentrations of one-fifth
				of the lower explosive limit and above, shall have an odorant added to it to
				make it so detectable. Odorization is not necessary, however, for such gas as
				is delivered for further processing or use where the odorant would serve no
				useful purpose as a warning agent. Suitable tests must be made to determine
				whether the odor meets the standards of subrule 19.5(2). Prompt remedial action
				shall be taken if odorization levels do not meet the prescribed limits for
				detectability.
(6)
Burial
				near electric lines.
Each pipeline shall be installed with at least 12
				inches of clearance from buried electrical conductors. If this clearance cannot
				be maintained, protection from damage or introduction of current from an
				electrical fault shall be provided by other means.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.11 - Periodic Review of Gas Procurement Practices

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(1)
Procurement plan.
Pursuant to Iowa Code section 476.6(11), the commission shall periodically
				conduct a contested case proceeding for the purpose of evaluating the
				reasonableness and prudence of a rate-regulated public utility's natural gas
				procurement and contracting practices. The commission shall provide the
				utilities 90 days' notice of the requirement to file a procurement plan. In the
				years in which the commission does not conduct a contested case proceeding, the
				commission may require the utilities to file certain information for the
				commission's review. In years in which the commission conducts a full
				proceeding, a rate-regulated utility shall file prepared direct testimony and
				exhibits in support of a detailed 12-month plan and a 3-year natural gas
				procurement plan. A utility's procurement plan shall be organized as follows
				and shall include:
a. An index of all
				documents and information filed in the plan and identification of the
				commission files in which documents incorporated by reference are
				located.
b. All contracts and gas
				supply arrangements executed or in effect for obtaining gas and all supply
				arrangements planned for the future 12-month and 3-year periods.
c. A description of the utility's natural gas
				forecasting, procurement, and contracting practices; available supply options;
				and other available services (e.g., storage services, balancing
				services).
d. An exhibit detailing
				the utility's current, 12-month, and 3-year forecasts of total annual
				throughput by customer class, peak day demand, and anticipated reserve margin
				on a PGA-year basis.
e. An
				organizational description of the officer or division responsible for gas
				procurement and a summary of operating procedures and policies for procuring
				and evaluating gas contracts.
f. A
				summary of the legal, regulatory, and commercial actions taken to minimize
				purchased gas costs.
g. Copies of
				all studies or investigation reports supporting the utility's testimony or
				materially considered by the utility in contracting decisions during the plan
				periods.
h. A complete list of all
				contracts in effect at the time of the procurement plan filing. The list shall
				include the contract term, the applicable service, and the contracted
				quantities.
i. A description of the
				supply options selected by the utility and an evaluation of the reasonableness
				and prudence of its contracting and procurement decisions. This evaluation
				should explain the relationship between forecast and procurement.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.12 - Flexible Rates

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(1)
Purpose.
This subrule is intended to allow gas utility
				companies to offer, at their option, incentive or discount rates to their sales
				and transportation customers.
(2)
General criteria.
a. Natural
				gas utility companies may offer discounts to individual customers, to selected
				groups of customers, or to an entire class of customers. However, discounted
				rates must be offered to all directly competing customers in the same service
				territory. Customers are direct competitors if they make the same end product
				(or offer the same service) for the same general group of customers. Customers
				that only produce component parts of the same end product are not directly
				competing customers.
b. In deciding
				whether to offer a specific discount, the utility shall evaluate the individual
				customer's, group's, or class's situation and perform a cost-benefit analysis
				before offering the discount.
c.
				Any discount offered should be such as to significantly affect the customer's
				or customers' decision to stay on the system or to increase
				consumption.
d. The consequences of
				offering the discount should be beneficial to all customers and to the utility.
				Other customers should not be at risk of loss as a result of these discounts;
				in addition, the offering of discounts shall in no way lead to subsidization of
				the discounted rates by other customers in the same or different
				classes.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.13 - Transportation Service

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(1)
Purpose.
This subrule requires gas distribution utility
				companies to transport natural gas owned by an end user on a nondiscriminatory
				basis, subject to the capacity limitations of the specific system. System
				capacity is defined as the maximum flow of gas the relevant portion of the
				system is capable of handling. Capacity availability shall be determined using
				the total current firm gas flow, including both system and transportation
				gas.
(2)
End user
				rights.
The end user purchasing transportation services from the
				utility shall have the following rights and be subject to the following
				conditions:
a. The end user shall have the
				right to receive, pursuant to agreement, 100 percent of the gas delivered by it
				or on its behalf to the transporting utility (adjusted for a reasonable volume
				of lost, unaccounted-for, and company-used gas).
b. The volumes which the end user is entitled
				to receive shall be subject to curtailment or interruption due to limitations
				in the system capacity of the transporting utility. Curtailment of the
				transportation volumes will take place according to the priority class,
				subdivision, or category which the end user would have been assigned if it were
				purchasing gas from the transporting utility.
c. During periods of curtailment or
				interruption, the party is entitled to a credit equal to the difference between
				the volumes delivered to the utility and those received by the end user,
				adjusted for lost, unaccounted-for, and company-used gas. The credit shall be
				available at any time, within the conditions of the agreement.
d. The end user shall be responsible for all
				costs associated with any additional plant required for providing
				transportation services to the end user.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.14 - Certification of Competitive Natural Gas Providers and Aggregators

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(1)
Definitions.
The following words and terms, when used in these
				rules, shall have the meanings indicated below:
"Competitive natural gas provider"
or
"CNGP"
means a person who takes title to natural gas and sells
				  it for consumption by a retail end user in the state of Iowa, and it also means
				  an aggregator as defined in Iowa Code section 476.86. CNGP includes an
				  affiliate of an Iowa public utility. CNGP excludes the following:
1. A public utility which is subject to rate
				regulation under Iowa Code chapter 476.
2. A municipally owned utility which provides
				natural gas service within its incorporated area or within the municipal
				natural gas competitive service area, as defined in Iowa Code section
				437A.3(22)
"a"
(1), in which the municipally owned utility is
				located.
"Competitive natural gas services"
means
				  natural gas sold at retail in this state excluding the sale of natural gas by a
				  rate-regulated public utility or a municipally owned utility as provided in the
				  definition of CNGP in 19.14(1).
"Large volume user"
means any end user whose
				  usage exceeds 25,000 therms in any month or 100,000 therms in any consecutive
				  12-month period.
"Small volume user"
means any end user whose
				  usage does not exceed 25,000 therms in any month and does not exceed 100,000
				  therms in any consecutive 12-month period.
"Vehicle fuel provider"
or
"VFP"
means a competitive natural gas provider or aggregator
				  as defined in Iowa Code section 476.86 that owns or operates facilities to sell
				  natural gas as vehicle fuel to a retail end user.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.15 - Customer Contribution Fund

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(1)
Applicability and purpose.
This rule applies to each gas
				public utility, as defined in Iowa Code sections 476.1 and 476.1B. Pursuant to
				Iowa Code section 476.66, each utility shall maintain a program plan to assist
				the utility's low-income customers with weatherization and to supplement
				assistance received under the federal low-income home energy assistance program
				for the payment of winter heating bills.
(2)
Notification.
Each
				utility shall notify all customers of the customer contribution fund at least
				twice a year. The method of notice which will ensure the most comprehensive
				notification to the utility's customers shall be employed. Upon commencement of
				service and at least once a year, the notice shall be mailed or personally
				delivered to all customers, or provided by electronic means to those customers
				who have consented to receiving electronic notices. The other required notice
				may be published in a local newspaper(s) of general circulation within the
				utility's service territory. A utility serving fewer than 6,000 customers may
				publish its semiannual notices locally in a free newspaper, utility newsletter
				or shopper's guide instead of a newspaper. At a minimum, the notice shall
				include:
a. A description of the availability
				and the purpose of the fund;
b. A
				customer authorization form. This form shall include a monthly billing option
				and any other methods of contribution.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.16 - Reserve Margin

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(1)
Applicability.
All rate-regulated gas utility companies may
				maintain a reserve of contract services in excess of their maximum daily system
				demand requirement and recover the cost of the reserve from their customers
				through the purchased gas adjustment.
(2)
Definitions.
a.
Contract services.
The
				amount of firm gas delivery capacity or delivery services contracted for use by
				a utility to satisfy its maximum daily system demand requirement, including the
				planned delivery capacity of the utility-owned liquefied natural gas
				facilities, but excluding the delivery capacity of propane storage facilities,
				shall be considered as contract services.
b.
Maximum daily system demand
				requirements.
The maximum daily gas demand requirement that the
				utility forecasts to occur on behalf of its system firm sales customers under
				peak (design day) weather conditions.
c.
Design day.
The maximum
				heating season forecast level of all firm sales customers' gas requirements
				during a 24-hour period beginning at 9 a.m. The design day forecast shall be
				the combined estimated gas requirements of all firm sales customers calculated
				by totaling the gas requirements of each customer classification or grouping.
				The estimated gas requirements for each customer classification or grouping
				shall be determined based upon an evaluation of historic usage levels of
				customers in each customer classification or grouping, adjusted for reasonably
				anticipated colder-than-normal weather conditions and any other clearly
				identifiable factors that may contribute to the demand for gas by firm
				customers. The design day calculation shall be submitted for approval by the
				commission with the annual PGA filing required by subrule 19.10(2).
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.17 - Incident Notification and Reports

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(1)
Notification.
A utility
				shall notify the commission immediately, or as soon as practical, of any
				incident involving the release of gas, failure of equipment, or interruption of
				facility operations, which results in any of the following:
a. A death or personal injury necessitating
				in-patient hospitalization.
b.
				Estimated property damage of $15,000 or more to the property of the utility and
				to others, including the cost of gas lost.
c. Emergency shutdown of a liquefied natural
				gas (LNG) facility.
d. An
				interruption of service to 50 or more customers.
e. Any other incident considered significant
				by the utility.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 19 - Service Supplied by Gas Utilities › Rule 199-19.18 - Capital Infrastructure Investment Automatic Adjustment Mechanism

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(1)
Eligible
				capital infrastructure investment.
A rate-regulated natural gas
				utility may file for commission approval a capital infrastructure investment
				automatic adjustment mechanism to allow recovery of certain costs from
				customers. To be eligible for recovery through the capital infrastructure
				investment automatic adjustment mechanism, the costs shall either:
a. Meet the following criteria:
(1) The costs are beyond the direct control
				of management;
(2) The costs are
				subject to sudden, important change in level;
(3) The costs are an important factor in
				determining the total cost of capital infrastructure investment to serve
				customers; and
(4) The costs are
				readily, precisely, and continuously segregated in the accounts of the utility;
				or
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 20 - Service Supplied by Rate-regulated Electric Utilities › Rule 199-20.1 - General Information

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(1)
Authorization of rules.
Iowa Code chapter 476 provides that
				the Iowa utilities board shall establish all needful, just and reasonable
				rules, not inconsistent with law, to govern the exercise of its powers and
				duties, the practice and procedure before it, and to govern the form, content
				and filing of reports, documents and other papers necessary to carry out the
				provisions of this law.
a. Iowa Code chapter
				478 provides that the Iowa utilities board shall have power to make and enforce
				rules relating to the location, construction, operation and maintenance of
				certain electrical transmission lines.
b. Electric utilities with fewer than 10,000
				customers subject to board regulation pursuant to Iowa Code section
				476.1A
				are subject to the regulatory requirements set out in 199-Chapter 27 for
				electric cooperatives.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 20 - Service Supplied by Rate-regulated Electric Utilities › Rule 199-20.3 - General Service Requirements

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(1)
Disposition of electricity.
The meter and associated
				instrument transformers shall be owned by the utility. The wiring between the
				instrument transformers and the meter shall be owned or controlled by the
				utility. The utility shall place a visible seal on all meters in customer use,
				such that the seal must be broken to gain entry.
a. All electricity sold by a utility shall be
				on the basis of meter measurement except:
(1)
				Where the consumption of electricity may be readily computed without metering;
				or
(2) For temporary service
				installations not otherwise metered.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 20 - Service Supplied by Rate-regulated Electric Utilities › Rule 199-20.4 - Customer Relations

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(1)
Customer information.
Each utility shall:
a. Maintain up-to-date maps, plans, or
				records of its entire transmission and distribution systems, together with such
				other information as may be necessary to enable the utility to advise
				prospective customers, and others entitled to the information, as to the
				facilities available for serving prospective customers in its service
				area.
b. Assist the customer or
				prospective customer in selecting the most economical rate schedule available
				for the customer's proposed type of service.
c. Notify customers affected by a change in
				rates or schedule classification in the manner provided in the rules of
				practice and procedure before the board. (199-26.5(476))
d. Post a notice in a conspicuous place in
				each office of the utility where applications for service are received,
				informing the public that copies of the rate schedules and rules relating to
				the service of the utility, as filed with the board, are available for public
				inspection. If the utility has provided access to its rate schedules and rules
				for service on its website, the notice shall include the website
				address.
e. Upon request, inform
				its customers as to the method of reading meters.
f. State, on the bill form, that tariff and
				rate schedule information is available upon request at the utility's local
				business office. If the utility provides access to its tariff and rate
				schedules on its website, the bill form shall include the website
				address.
g. Upon request, transmit
				a statement of either the customer's actual consumption, or degree day adjusted
				consumption, at the company's option, of electricity for each billing during
				the prior 12 months.
h. Furnish
				such additional information as the customer may reasonably request.
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 20 - Service Supplied by Rate-regulated Electric Utilities › Rule 199-20.5 - Engineering Practice

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(1)
Requirement for good engineering practice.
The electric plant
				of the utility shall be constructed, installed, maintained and operated in
				accordance with accepted good engineering practice in the electric industry to
				assure, as far as reasonably possible, continuity of service, uniformity in the
				quality of service furnished, and the safety of persons and property.
(2)
Standards incorporated by
				reference.
The utility shall use the applicable provisions in the
				publications listed below as standards of accepted good practice unless
				otherwise ordered by the board.
a. Iowa
				Electrical Safety Code, as defined in 199-Chapter 25.
b. National Electrical Code, ANSI/NFPA
				70-2014.
c. American National
				Standard Requirements for Instrument Transformers, ANSI/IEEE C57.13.1-2006; and
				C57.13.3-2005.
d. American National
				Standard for Electric Power Systems and Equipment Voltage Ratings (60 Hertz),
				ANSI C84.1-2011.
e. Grounding of
				Industrial and Commercial Power Systems, IEEE 142-2007.
f. IEEE Standard 1159-2009, IEEE Recommended
				Practice for Monitoring Electric Power Quality or any successor
				standard.
g. IEEE Standard
				519-2014, IEEE Recommended Practices and Requirements for Harmonic Control in
				Electrical Power Systems or its successor standard.
h. At railroad crossings,
				199-42.6 (476), "Engineering
				standards for electric and communications lines."
Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 199 - Utilities Division › Utilities and Transportation Divisions › Chapter 20 - Service Supplied by Rate-regulated Electric Utilities › Rule 199-20.6 - Metering

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(1)
Inspection and testing program.
Each utility shall adopt a
				written program for the inspection and testing of its meters to determine the
				necessity for adjustment, replacement or repair. The frequency of inspection
				and methods of testing shall be based on the utility's experience,
				manufacturer's recommendations, and accepted good practice. The publications
				listed in 20.6(3) are representative of accepted good practice. Each utility
				shall maintain inspecting and testing records for each meter and associated
				device until three years after its retirement.
(2)
Program content.
The
				written program shall, at minimum, address the following subject areas:
a. Classification of meters by capacity,
				type, and any other factor considered pertinent.
b. Checking of new meters for acceptable
				accuracy before being placed in service.
c. Testing of in-service meters, including
				any associated instruments or corrective devices, for accuracy, adjustments or
				repairs. This may be accomplished by periodic tests at specified intervals or
				on the basis of a statistical sampling plan, but shall include meters removed
				from service for any reason.
d.
				Periodic calibration or testing of devices or instruments used by the utility
				to test meters.
e. The limits of
				meter accuracy considered acceptable by the utility.
f. The nature of meter and meter test records
				which will be maintained by the utility.