New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 17 - PUBLIC UTILITIES AND UTILITY SERVICES › Chapter 10 - GAS SERVICES › Part 650 - SERVICE STANDARDS FOR GAS UTILITIES › Section 17.10.650.9 - RECORDS AND REPORTS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
Location of records:
Records shall be located as provided in
				Section
				62-6-17
				NMSA 1978.
B.
Retention of
				records:
Records shall be retained as provided in 17.3.310
				NMAC.
C.
Data to be filed
				with the commission:
The utility shall maintain the following documents
				and information on a current basis and upon commission request, the utility
				shall provide the information to the commission within 10 working days:
(1) a statement of the standard heating value
				in BTU's per cubic foot of the gas supplied by the utility in each district,
				division, or community served;
(2)
				a statement indicating the volumetric measurement base to which all sales of
				gas at other than standard delivery pressure except where made under special
				contract are corrected (see Paragraph (2) of Subsection K of 17.10.650 NMAC and
				Subsection B of
				17.10.650.14
				NMAC);
(3) a map or series of maps
				showing the utility's operating area (the map shall be revised annually unless
				such revision is unnecessary, in which event the utility shall notify the
				commission that the map on file is current); the map should show:
(a) gas production plant,
(b) principal storage holders,
(c) principal transmission mains by
				size,
(d) system metering (supply)
				points,
(e) state boundary
				crossings,
(f) franchise area,
				and
(g) names of all incorporated
				communities served;
(4)
				the name, title, address, and telephone number of the person who should be
				contacted in connection with:
(a) general
				management duties,
(b) customer
				relations (complaints),
(c)
				engineering operations,
(d) meter
				tests and repairs, and
(e)
				emergencies during non-office hours;
(5) notice of accidents, explosions, and
				leaks:
(a) prompt notice of fatal accidents
				shall be given to the commission by telephone or telegraph,
(b) prompt notice of any explosion involving
				any of the utility's system or products shall be given to the commission by
				telephone or telegraph,
(c) the
				utility shall maintain information regarding leaks that occur in a transmission
				or distribution line owned by the company or in a customer's line for at least
				three years from the date the leak is discovered by the utility, and
(d) the utility shall file a report with the
				commission within 48 hours after exercising its option to discontinue service
				under Paragraph (1) of Subsection F of
				17.10.650.11
				NMAC;
(6) reports of
				heating value:
(a) each utility shall file
				reports showing the results of its determinations of the heating value of the
				gas made in accordance with Subsection F of
				17.10.650.14
				NMAC,
(b) when the utility obtains
				its gas supply from another utility which is required to supply BTU reports to
				the commission under this section, copies of the supplier's reports may be
				submitted in lieu of compliance with the other requirements of this section,
				and
(c) these reports shall be
				provided to the commission within 10 working days of a request for such a
				report by the commission;
(7) the location at which the utility keeps
				the various classes of records required by these rules; and
(8) a report detailing the results of all
				meters (excluding new meters and all orifice meters) tested during the year
				showing:
(a) total number of meters
				tested;
(b) percentage breakdown of
				reasons for tests;
(c) number of
				meters found to be more than two percent fast; and
(d) number of meters found to be more than
				two percent slow.