Section 7.08 - Annual Supplements by Gas Companies(1)Scope and Purpose. 980 CMR 7.08 sets forth the requirements for aimual supplements which every gas company must file on the dates set forth in 980 CMR 7.02(3)(b). Annual supplements shall be submitted so that the Council may review any significant proposed changes in the information contained in previously approved forecasts and supplements and so that the Council may determine whether plans for new facilities as proposed by gas companies will fulfill the energy, environmental and economic policies of the Commonwealth. Interstate natural gas companies will update on an annual basis the data filed with the Council pursuant to thfc third paragraph of 980 CMR 7.06(1) for informational purposes only.
If a new facility is proposed as part of a supplement and if demand as well as sendout has not been forecast in the most recent forecast or supplement, a company must provide a complete long-range forecast of demand and sendout, in lieu of the supplement.
(2)Content of Supplements.(a) Each annual supplement shall set forth appropriate changes in the company's long-range forecast, as previously supplemented, considering at least a five year period succeeding the date on which the current supplement is filed. Any new facility expected to commence operation in the fifth year after the said date must be included in the supplement. Any new facility for which Council approval is required and which is expected to commence operation four years or less after the said date may be included only as provided by 980 CMR 7.07(l)(c). Each supplement shall explain any differences between the most recent previous forecast or supplement and the current supplement and events occurring in the year since the previous forecast or supplement was filed. Each supplement shall fulfill or report the fulfillment of any stated conditions that the Council, in granting a qualified approval of a previously filed long-range forecast or supplement, may have required the forecasting company to meet in its annual supplement or by the time such supplement is filed.(b) In the event that an annual supplement represents the first filing by a company or that a company did not file the next previous long-range forecast, the supplement must, unless an intervening supplement has done so, contain all information normally required by 980 CMR 7.06 and 7.07 to be filed in connection with a long-range forecast.