4844294 Public Service Commission - Notice of Proposed Rulemaking - Gas Tariff 00-2, In the Matter of Washington Gas Light Company’s Rights-of-Way Surcharge General Regulations Tariff, P.S.C. – D.C. No. 3
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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING
GAS TARIFF 00-2, IN THE MATTER OF WASHINGTON GAS LIGHT COMPANY’S RIGHTS-OF-WAY SURCHARGE GENERAL REGULATIONS TARIFF, P.S.C.-D.C.
No. 3
1. The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (Commission) hereby gives notice, pursuant to Section 34-802 of the District of Columbia Code and in accordance with Section 2-505 of the District of Columbia Code,[1] of its intent to act upon the proposed Surcharge Update of Washington Gas Light Company (WGL)[2] in not less than thirty (30) days after the date of publication of this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR) in the D.C. Register.
2. The Rights-of-Way (ROW) Surcharge contains two components, the ROW Current Factor and the ROW Reconciliation Factor. On March 25, 2014, pursuant to D.C. Official Code § 10-1141.06,[3] WGL filed a Surcharge Update to revise the ROW Current Factor.[4] In the Surcharge Update, WGL sets forth the process to be used to recover from its customers the D.C. ROW fees paid by WGL to the District of Columbia government in accordance with the following tariff page:
GENERAL SERVICES TARIFF, P.S.C.-D.C. No. 3
Section 22
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3. WGL’s Surcharge Update shows that the ROW Current Factor is 0.0317 with the ROW Reconciliation Factor of (0.0051) for the prior period, which yields a Net Factor of 0.0266.[5] In addition, WGL expresses its intent to collect the surcharge beginning with the April 2014 billing cycle.[6] The Company has a statutory right to implement its filed surcharges. However, if the Commission discovers any inaccuracies in the calculation of the proposed surcharge, WGL could be subject to reconciliation of the surcharges.
4. This Surcharge Update may be reviewed at the Office of the Commission Secretary, 1333 H Street, N.W., Second Floor, West Tower, Washington, D.C. 20005, between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday as well as on the Commission’s web site at www.dcpsc.org. Copies of the tariff are available upon request, at a per-page reproduction cost.
5. Comments on the Surcharge Update must be made in writing to Brinda Westbrook-Sedgwick, Commission Secretary, at the above address. All comments and reply comments must be received within thirty (30) and forty-five (45) days, respectively, of the date of publication of this NOPR in the D.C. Register. Once the comment period has expired, the Commission will take final rulemaking action on WGL’s Surcharge Update.
[2] GT00-2, In the Matter of Washington Gas Light Company’s Rights-of-Way Surcharge General Regulations Tariff, P.S.C.-D.C. No. 3, (GT00-2) Rights-of-Way Current Factor Surcharge Filing of Washington Gas Light Company (Surcharge Update), filed March 25, 2014.
[3] D.C. Official Code § 10-1141.06 (2001) states that, “Each public utility company regulated by the Public Service Commission shall recover from its utility customers all lease payments which it pays to the District of Columbia pursuant to this title through a surcharge mechanism applied to each unit of sale and the surcharge amount shall be separately stated on each customer’s monthly billing statement.”
[4] GT00-2, Surcharge Update at 1.
[5] Id. at 2.
[6] Id. at 1.
