Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024
(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