Okla. Admin. Code § 165:45-17-11

Current through Vol. 42, No. 4, November 1, 2024

Section 165:45-17-11 - Application requirements for an unbundling plan; public hearing and plan implementation

(a) In an application for approval of an unbundling plan, the utility shall identify in detail the following:

(1) All Oklahoma jurisdictional facilities it owns and those owned by an affiliate, which have been or can be used in the provision of natural gas services of gas supply, gathering, transmission or storage upstream of the citygate or proposed aggregation point.

(2) The capacity of such facilities identified in paragraph (1) of this Subsection.

(3) Each Oklahoma geographic area in which the utility or an affiliate has provided or can provide the services of gas supply, gathering, transmission or storage upstream of the citygate,

(4) The proposed citygates or other delivery points for which the aforementioned services will be competitively bid. There will be a designated citygate for every city and municipality regardless of the recommended aggregation point. Such designation does not mean actual installation, unless ordered by the Commission.

(5) All natural gas service agreements which may have sole supplier and full requirements provisions or other provisions which may have the effect of restricting competition.

(6) A schedule for competitive bidding for each citygate or proposed aggregation point.

(7) Actual or estimated volumes of natural gas supply delivered to each citygate and proposed aggregation point for the utility's distribution service over each of the thirty-six (36) months preceding the date of application and an estimate for each of the subsequent twelve (12) months.

(8) The actual or reasonable estimate of the peak volume requirements by month of each citygate and/or proposed aggregation point.

(9) The actual or reasonable estimate of the maximum daily and hourly demand for each citygate and proposed aggregation point during the year.

(10) Separate proposed tariffs reflecting all of the natural gas services upstream of the citygate and/or proposed aggregation point including gas supply, gathering, transmission and storage, which the utility proposes to make available for competitive bidding and which the utility will make available. Full documentation together with disaggregated cost of service studies identifying the system wide cost by consumer class or subgroup of each of the services and the allocation of those costs to each citygate or proposed aggregation point, together with all workpapers supporting such studies, shall be included with the proposed tariffs. In addition, an allocation of these system wide costs to each of the utility's citygates and proposed aggregation points shall be included, together with the methodology for making such allocation and workpapers supporting such allocation. The proposed tariff shall also contain the terms and conditions associated with each such service and, with the exception of gas supply, the rate to be charged for each such service based upon the supporting disaggregated cost of service study.

(11) Standard form requests for competitive bidders for gas supply, gathering, transmission and storage upstream of the citygate or proposed aggregation point.

(12) A detailed, itemized estimate to the extent known of the utility's total prudent and verifiable stranded and transition costs together with all workpapers supporting such estimate and the competitive market and any other assumptions underlying such estimate(s).

(13) A standard competitive bidder contract for natural gas services, which shall include appropriate guarantees regarding the delivery of the natural gas services to the citygate.

(14) A map(s) of the gas utility's facilities which includes;

(A) Separate delineation of gathering facilities, storage facilities, transmission facilities and local distribution facilities;

(B) The location of each citygate and/or proposed aggregation point;

(C) The operating pressures of all facilities at and upstream of each citygate and/or proposed aggregation point; and

(D) The capacity of all facilities at and upstream of each citygate and/or proposed aggregation point.

(15) All contracts regarding upstream natural gas services executed subsequent to February 18, 1997.

(16) Any amendments or addendums to any existing contracts regarding upstream natural gas services that were executed after February 18, 1997.

(b) All information and data submitted pursuant to subsection (a) shall be updated annually by supplemental filings. Such filings shall be public information.

(c) Each utility's unbundling application shall be subject to public review, comment and hearing. All hearings on each utility's unbundling application shall be completed and a final Commission order issued no later than one hundred and twenty (120) calendar days following the filing date of the utility's unbundling application, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission.

(d) Upon approval of the unbundling plan, the utility shall implement said plan within twenty (20) calendar days from the date of the Commission's order, unless otherwise ordered by the Commission

Okla. Admin. Code § 165:45-17-11

Added at 15 Ok Reg 2177, eff 7-1-98

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 36, Issue 21, July 15, 2019, eff. 7/25/2019