# Applications

- **operation:** document
- **citation:** 4 CCR 723-4 Rule 4703
- **title:** Applications
- **source type:** regulation
- **agency:** Colorado Public Utilities Commission
- **status:** current
- **official:** true
- **published on:** Not available
- **effective on:** Not available
- **summary:** (a) To commence an appeal of a local government land use decision, a utility or power authority shall file with the Commission an application pursuant to this rule. (b) An application filed in accordance with §§ 29-20-108, C.R.S., and this rule shall include, in the following order and specifically 
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(a) To commence an appeal of a local government land use decision, a utility or
power authority shall file with the Commission an application pursuant to this
rule.
(b) An application filed in accordance with §§ 29-20-108, C.R.S., and this rule shall
include, in the following order and specifically identified, the following information,
either in the application or in appropriately identified attachments:
(I) all of information required in paragraphs 4002(b) and 4002(c);
(II) a showing that one of the preconditions set out in rule 4702 has been met;
(III) identification of the major natural gas facility;
(IV) identification of the local government action and its impact on the major
natural gas facility;
(V) a statement of the reasons the applying utility or power authority believes
that the local government action would unreasonably impair its ability to
provide safe, reliable, and economical service to the public;
(VI) the demonstrated need for the major natural gas facility or reference to the
application made to the Commission with respect to the major natural gas
facility and the resulting decision of the Commission regarding such
facility;
(VII) the extent to which the proposed facility is inconsistent with existing
applicable local or regional land use ordinances, resolutions, or master or
comprehensive plans;
(VIII) whether the proposed facility would exacerbate a natural hazard;
(IX) applicable utility engineering standards, including supply adequacy,
system reliability, and public safety standards;
(X) the relative merit, as determined through use of the normal system
planning evaluation techniques of the utility or power authority, of any
reasonably available and economically feasible alternatives proposed by
the utility, the power authority, or the local government;

(XI) the impact that the local government action would have on the customers
of the utility or power authority who reside within and without the
boundaries of the jurisdiction of the local government;
(XII) the basis for the local government action. If available, the utility or power
authority shall attach a copy of the local government action;
(XIII) the impact the proposed facility would have on residents within the local
government's jurisdiction including, in the case of a right-of-way in which
facilities have been placed underground, whether those residents have
already paid to place such facilities underground. If the residents have
already paid to place facilities underground, the Commission will give
strong consideration to that fact;
(XIV) information concerning how the proposed major natural gas facility will
affect the safety of residents within and without the boundaries of the
jurisdiction of the local government; and
(XV) an attestation that the utility or power authority will, upon filing the
application with the Commission, simultaneously send the application to
the local government body which took the local government action which
is the subject of the appeal.
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