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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 889
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
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AN ACT CONCERNING TH E PUBLIC UTILITIES REGULATORY
AUTHORITY'S INVESTIGATION OF LOST AND UNACCOUNTED FOR
GAS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 16-34a of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
(a) Not later than July 1, 2015, and annually thereafter, the Public 3
Utilities Regulatory Authority shall submit a report, in accordance 4
with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of 5
the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to energy. 6
Such report shall include (1) a description of the reasons for each gas 7
company's percentage of lost and unaccounted for gas, (2) 8
recommendations for each gas company's gas leak reduction strategy, 9
(3) a description of each gas company's current gas leak monitoring 10
system program, and (4) the number of leaks and causes of such leaks 11
throughout the entire gas distribution system in the state and any 12
other information the authority determines to be relevant. 13
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(b) The authority shall initiate a docket to investigate the lost and 14
unaccounted for gas of a gas company if the percentage of the leaked 15
gas component of the lost and unaccounted for gas of such gas 16
company in any [calendar] year exceeds a total of [three] one and one-17
half per cent. In such docket, a gas company shall report (1) leak 18
detection and monitoring procedures, (2) emissions reduction 19
strategies in addition to leak repair, and (3) any additional 20
requirements the authority determines to be relevant. In such docket, 21
the authority shall establish a cost mechanism to comply with long-22
term emissions reductions required by section 22a-200a and to 23
incentivize a gas company to (A) reduce lost and unaccounted for gas, 24
including the number of leaks throughout the entire gas distribution 25
system in the state, (B) replace aging infrastructure, and (C) comply 26
with any additional requirements the authority determines to be 27
relevant. Such cost mechanism may be incorporated in the purchased 28
gas adjustment clause pursuant to section 16-19b. 29
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 16-34a
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to investigate the
last and unaccounted for gas of a gas company if the percentage of the
leaked gas component of the lost and unaccounted for gas exceeds one
and one-half per cent.
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