Nev. Admin. Code § 704.9757 - Commission order relating to infrastructure expansion application is not a determination of prudency of such activity; public utility shall seek determination of prudency in general rate application; requirements of application

1. A Commission order authorizing, denying or modifying a gas infrastructure expansion application is not a determination of prudency with respect to any execution or costs of a gas infrastructure expansion activity that is authorized by the Commission and set forth in such an application.

2. A public utility shall seek a determination of prudency in the first general rate application filed pursuant to NRS 704.110 after the costs of each gas infrastructure expansion activity are accounted for in gas infrastructure expansion rates. In the general rate application, the public utility shall submit evidence in support of the recorded cost for each gas infrastructure expansion activity completed since the last general rate application filed by the public utility, including, without limitation:

(a) Each invoice for gas infrastructure expansion costs, including invoices segregated at the project level if blanket contracts or invoices were used by the public utility;

(b) Each work order for the gas infrastructure expansion activity, including work orders segregated at the project level if blanket contracts or work orders were used by the public utility;

(c) An accounting of the labor performed by outside contractors and the public utility for the gas infrastructure expansion activity undertaken; and

(d) Any other evidence which demonstrates that the incurred costs of the gas infrastructure expansion activity were prudent, just and reasonable.

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Nev. Admin. Code § 704.9757

Added to NAC by Pub. Utilities Comm'n by R116-15, eff. 4/4/2016

Section 1 of Senate Bill No. 151, chapter 59, Statutes of Nevada 2015, at page 251.