Missouri Code of State Regulations
Title 20 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND INSURANCE
Division 4240 - Public Service Commission
Chapter 3 - Filing and Reporting Requirements
Section 20 CSR 4240-3.130 - Filing Requirements and Schedule of Fees for Applications for Approval of Electric Service Territorial Agreements and Petitions for Designation of Electric Service Areas
Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, March 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule establishes requirements and schedule of fees that applications to the commission for approval of territorial agreements between electric service providers and petitions for designation of electric service areas must meet. As noted in the rule, additional requirements pertaining to such applications are set forth in 4 CSR 240-2.060(1).
(1) In addition to the requirements of 4 CSR 240-2.060(1), applications for commission approval of territorial agreements and petitions for designation of electric service areas shall include:
(2) If any of the information required by subsections (1)(A)-(E) of this rule is unavailable at the time the application is filed, the application must be accompanied by a statement of the reasons the information is currently unavailable and a date by which it will be furnished. All required information shall be furnished prior to the granting of the authority sought.
(3) The application or petition shall be accompanied by an initial filing fee in the amount of five hundred dollars ($500).
(4) An application for commission review of proposed amendment(s) to an existing territorial agreement between electric service providers shall not be subject to the fee of five hundred dollars ($500). However, the applicants shall be responsible for the payment of a fee which reflects necessary hearing time (including the minimum hearing time charge) and the transcript costs as specified in section (5) of this rule.
(5) In addition to the filing fee, the fee for commission review is set at six hundred eighty-five dollars ($685) per hour of hearing time, subject to a minimum charge for hearing time of six hundred eighty-five dollars ($685). There is an additional charge of three dollars and fifty cents ($3.50) per page of transcript. These fees are in addition to the fees authorized by section 386.300, RSMo.
(6) The parties shall be responsible for payment of any unpaid fees on and after the effective date of the commission's report and order relating to the electric territorial agreement or petition for designation of service areas. The executive director shall send an itemized billing statement to the applicants on or after the effective date of the commission's report and order. Responsibility for payment of the fees shall be that of the parties to the proceeding as ordered by the commission in each case.
(7) On July 1 of each year, the filing fee and the fee per hour of evidentiary hearing time may be modified to match any percentage change in the Consumer Price Index for the twelve (12)-month period ending December 31 of the preceding year.
*Original authority: 386.250, RSMo 1939, amended 1963, 1967, 1977, 1980, 1987, 1988, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1996; and 394.312, RSMo 1988, amended 1989.