Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 704 - Regulation of Public Utilities Generally › GAS INFRASTRUCTURE EXPANSION RELATED TO PROGRAM OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT › Section 704.9753 - Gas infrastructure expansion application: Requirements and contents; written order by Commission

Current through June 11,
			 2024
1. A gas
			 infrastructure expansion application must be supported by sworn testimony and
			 must include, without limitation:
(a) A
			 description of the proposed gas infrastructure expansion activity.
(b) To the extent the proposed gas
			 infrastructure activity seeks to provide natural gas service to an unserved or
			 underserved area, a map generally depicting the unserved or underserved area
			 that the public utility proposes to serve, including the relationship with
			 existing natural gas infrastructure and customers.
(c) An estimate of costs which identifies:
(1) The costs associated with the gas
			 infrastructure expansion activity that are economically feasible pursuant to
			 the public utility's rule for the extension of facilities; and
(2) The costs that are not economically
			 feasible pursuant to the public utility's rule for the extension of facilities
			 and a description of the proposed alternative cost-recovery methodologies as
			 required in subparagraph (1) of paragraph (f).
(d) The estimated revenue requirement
			 associated with the gas infrastructure expansion activity which is proposed in
			 the application.
(e) An
			 explanation of how the proposed gas infrastructure expansion activity is
			 consistent with a program of economic development, including, without
			 limitation:
(1) Identification of the
			 purposes of the proposed gas infrastructure expansion activity pursuant to
			 subsection 3 of section 1 of Senate Bill No. 151, chapter 59, Statutes of
			 Nevada 2015, at page 251;
(2)
			 Projected demand and supporting materials, as required in subparagraphs (2) and
			 (5) of paragraph (f), for each purpose identified in subparagraph (1); and
(3) Identification of the
			 anticipated direct and indirect benefits, including the areas for each benefit,
			 and an explanation of how the proposed gas infrastructure expansion activity is
			 consistent with the purposes identified in subparagraph (1).
(f) The analysis
			 conducted on the feasibility of the gas infrastructure expansion activity,
			 including, without limitation:
(1) A detailed
			 description of the proposed alternative cost-recovery methodologies, including,
			 without limitation:
(I) The estimated time
			 period for the recovery of such costs;
(II) The projected billing determinants to be
			 used to establish the gas infrastructure expansion rates;
(III) The process for determining when the
			 timely and complete recovery of the revenue requirement has been accomplished
			 by the public utility and the recovery of such costs will end; and
(IV) The treatment of rates for the customers
			 served by the gas infrastructure expansion activity when the recovery of such
			 costs has ended;
(2) A
			 projection of the number of customers, natural gas usage and revenues, by class
			 of customer and class of service, by month over the time period of the proposed
			 alternative cost-recovery methodologies;
(3) The efforts expended by the public
			 utility to identify potential customers in each gas infrastructure expansion
			 activity;
(4) The estimated gas
			 infrastructure expansion rates for each affected class of service;
(5) The economic and financial justification
			 for the gas infrastructure expansion activity; and
(6) The mechanism that the public utility
			 proposes to utilize to collect from customers the cost of natural gas purchased
			 for resale to those same customers:
(I) To
			 whom the natural gas is sold; and
(II) Who are receiving direct benefits as a
			 result of the gas infrastructure expansion activity.