Definitions

(a)"Customer-owned yard line" means any customer-owned gas line running underground from the utility meter to a customer's home, business, or other customer end use.#

(b)"Defined programmatic expense" means a programmatic expense that, in the aggregate, falls within the oversight of a utility's application for issuance of a certificate of public convenience and necessity or approval of a gas infrastructure plan. Defined programmatic expense means company-wide programmatic investment in activities related to relocation or replacement of meters and customer-owned yard lines, or as otherwise ordered by the Commission.#

(c)"Gas infrastructure plan action period" means a three-year period beginning January 1st of the year in which the gas infrastructure plan application filing is made.#

(d)"Gas infrastructure plan informational period" means the three-year period following the gas infrastructure plan action period.#

(e)"Gas infrastructure plan total period" means the gas infrastructure plan action period and the gas infrastructure plan informational period.#

(f)"Planned project" means any planned facility or an extension of an existing facility, or a defined programmatic expense with a defined scope of work and associated cost estimate that exceeds $3 million in utility capital investment in 2020 dollars, or $2 million in utility capital investment in 2020 dollars for gas utilities with less than 50,000 full-service customers, as adjusted annually for inflation.#

(I)The dollar thresholds in paragraph (f) shall be adjusted for inflation annually on March 1 of each year, based upon the annual percentage change in the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Price Index - Denver-Aurora-Lakewood as published by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs for the immediately preceding calendar year. These adjustments shall be compounded annually. For reference, the Commission will post a notice on its website, https://puc.colorado.gov/, by March 15 of each year reporting the annual inflation adjustments applicable pursuant to this rule.#