N.J. Admin. Code § 14:3-13.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024
Section 14:3-13.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. Additional definitions that apply to this subchapter can be found at 14:3-1.1 and 14:4-1.2.

"Base cost of purchased wastewater treatment" has the same meaning as is assigned to this term at 14:9-7.2.

"Base cost of purchased water" has the same meaning as defined in 14:9-7.2.

"Over/under-recovered gas cost balance" means the amount that a gas utility has recovered from customers through basic gas supply service (BGSS) charges to date, less the net prudently incurred costs that the Board has determined are recoverable through BGSS charges to date. If the recoveries through BGSS charges to date exceed the utility's net gas costs to date, the amount of excess is the utility's over-recovered gas cost balance. If the utility's gas costs to date exceed the utility's net recoveries through BGSS charges to date, the amount of excess is the under-recovered gas cost balance.

"Periodic Basic Gas Supply Service charge" or "periodic BGSS charge" means a charge that the Board authorizes a gas utility to collect from all of its periodic BGSS customers, which is designed to enable the utility to recover the net cost of natural gas, or a substitute or supplemental fuel, that the utility has sold to customers.

"Periodic BGSS customer" means a customer who receives gas service under a periodic BGSS tariff.

"Periodic BGSS pricing clause" means the mechanism through which the Board authorizes a gas utility to adjust its periodic BGSS charge. These adjustments are made with the goal of achieving a zero over/under recovered gas cost balance by a specific date. The parameters for periodic BGSS pricing clauses are governed by various Board Orders including, but not limited to, the Board's Order in Docket Number GX01050304, dated January 6, 2003.

"Purchased Wastewater Treatment Adjustment Clause" or "PWTAC" has the same meaning as defined in 14:9-7.2.

"Purchased Water Adjustment Clause" or "PWAC" shall have the same meaning as defined in 14:9-7.2.

N.J. Admin. Code § 14:3-13.2

Amended by R.2002 d.280, effective 9/16/2002.
See: 34 N.J.R. 992(a), 34 N.J.R. 3216(b).
In "Base cost of purchased sewerage treatment", rewrote the first sentence; in "Deferred accounting treatment" and "Purchased Sewerage Adjustment Clause", substituted "wastewater" for "sewer".
Amended by R.2006 d.367, effective 10/16/2006.
See: 38 N.J.R. 1538(a), 38 N.J.R. 4490(b).
Rewrote definitions "Base cost of purchased sewerage treatment", "Base cost of purchased water" and "Deferred accounting"; deleted first occurrence of definition "Purchased Sewerage Treatment Adjustment Clause"; substituted definition "Purchased Wastewater Treatment Adjustment Clause" for second occurrence of "Purchased Sewerage Treatment Adjustment Clause"; and added definition "Purchased Water Adjustment Clause".
Amended by R.2008 d.119, effective 5/19/2008.
See: 39 N.J.R. 4077(b), 40 N.J.R. 2481(a).
In the introductory paragraph, substituted a period for a colon at the end of the first sentence and added the last sentence; deleted definitions "Applicable period", "Base cost of energy", "Base cost of gas", "Deferred accounting", "Deferred balance", "Levelized Energy Adjustment Clause" and "Levelized Gas Adjustment Clause" or "LGAC"; substituted definition "Base cost of purchased wastewater treatment" for "Base cost of purchased sewerage treatment"; and substituted "is assigned to this term at" for "the term 'base cost of purchased wastewater treatment,' as defined in"; added definitions "Over/under-recovered gas cost balance", "Periodic Basic Gas Supply Service charge", "Periodic BGSS customer" and "Periodic BGSS pricing clause"; and in definition "Purchased Wastewater Treatment Adjustment Clause" deleted "the term 'purchased wastewater treatment adjustment clause,' as" preceding "defined".