4470650 Errata Notice - 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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OFFICE OF DOCUMENTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUANCES
ERRATA NOTICE
The Administrator of the Office of Documents and Administrative Issuances (ODAI), pursuant to the authority set forth in Section 309 of the District of Columbia Administrative Procedure Act, approved October 21, 1968 (82 Stat. 1203; D.C. Code § 2-559 (2001)), hereby gives notice of a correction to the D.C. Register. The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia (Commission) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding the proposed tariff of Washington Gas Light Company’s (WGL) Rights-of-Way (ROW) Surcharge, published at 60 DCR 9766-9767 (June 28, 2013) (Notice). The Notice revised the Reconciliation Factor for WGL’s ROW Surcharge.
The last sentence of Paragraph 5 of the Notice mistakenly reads “Pepco’s Surcharge Update” instead of “WGL’s Surcharge Update.” Therefore, in accordance with the intent of the Commission, the Notice is corrected to read as follows:
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 May 22, 2013, pursuant to D.C. Code § 10-1141.06,[3] WGL filed a Surcharge Update to revise the ROW Reconciliation 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
3rd Revised Page 56
3. WGL’s Surcharge Update shows that the ROW Current Factor is 0.0329 with the ROW Reconciliation Factor of (0.0051) for the prior period, which yields a net factor of 0.0278.[5] In addition, WGL expresses its intent to collect the surcharge beginning with the June 2013 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 1333 H Street, N.W., Second Floor, West Tower, Washington, D.C. 20005. All comments must be received within thirty (30) days of the date of publication of this NOPR in the D.C. Register. Persons wishing to file reply comments may do so no later than forty-five (45) days 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.
Any questions or comments regarding this notice shall be addressed by mail to the Administrator, Office of Documents, and Administrative Issuances, 441 4th Street, N.W., Suite 520 South, Washington, D.C. 20001, or via telephone at (202) 727-5090.
[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 Reconciliation Factor Surcharge Filing of Washington Gas Light Company (Surcharge Update), filed May 22, 2013.
[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.
