C.R.S. Section 40-3.2-104.5
Customer disconnection from investor-owned gas utility service

  • rules

(1)

An investor-owned gas utility shall not penalize or charge a fee to a customer that voluntarily terminates gas service. Once a customer has terminated the investor-owned utility’s gas service, the utility shall not continue to charge the customer any fees. Any costs associated with termination shall be considered part of general distribution system investments and are eligible for cost recovery.

(2)

The commission may adopt rules to establish standards for a customer’s voluntary disconnection from an investor-owned gas utility’s gas distribution system. If the commission adopts the disconnection rules, the commission must consider:

(a)

The health and safety risks related to the customer no longer using the gas distribution system;

(b)

The cost effectiveness of the method of disconnection;

(c)

The use of, or requiring the installation of, shut-off valves or pipeline caps as an option in lieu of potentially more cost-prohibitive excavation or construction activities to remove existing gas infrastructure;

(d)

The impact on staffing, including any requirements and procedures for utility employees and contract workers;

(e)

The impact on critical repairs, scheduled maintenance, leak mitigation, and other related activities; and

(f)

Any other consideration that the commission deems appropriate.

(3)

Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that a utility cannot charge an individual customer for excavation or construction activities to remove existing gas infrastructure if the customer has declined the more cost-effective methods to disconnect service.

Source: Section 40-3.2-104.5 — Customer disconnection from investor-owned gas utility service - rules, https://leg.­colorado.­gov/sites/default/files/images/olls/crs2023-title-40.­pdf (accessed Oct. 20, 2023).

40‑3.2‑101
Legislative declaration 40‑3.2‑102
Recovery of air quality improvement costs 40‑3.2‑103
Gas distribution utility demand-side management programs - recovery of costs - reports 40‑3.2‑104
Electricity utility demand-side management programs - rules - annual report - definition 40‑3.2‑104.3
Eliminating incentives for gas service to properties - gas line extension allowances - exemptions - definitions 40‑3.2‑104.4
Colorado energy office gas investment asset depreciation study - third-party evaluation - commission rules 40‑3.2‑104.5
Customer disconnection from investor-owned gas utility service - rules 40‑3.2‑104.6
Commission study on beneficial electrification - repeal 40‑3.2‑105.5
Labor standards for gas DSM projects 40‑3.2‑105.6
Labor standards for beneficial electrification projects 40‑3.2‑105.7
Labor standards for state thermal energy network and thermal energy system projects - definitions 40‑3.2‑106
Costs of pollution in utility planning - rules 40‑3.2‑107
Costs of methane pollution in gas DSM program planning - rules - definitions 40‑3.2‑108
Clean heat targets - legislative declaration - definitions - plans - rules - reports 40‑3.2‑109
Beneficial electrification plans for electric utilities - definition - rules - recovery of costs - report 40‑3.2‑201
Short title 40‑3.2‑202
Legislative declaration 40‑3.2‑203
Definitions 40‑3.2‑204
Emission control plans - role of the department of public health and environment - timing of emission reductions - approval 40‑3.2‑205
Review - approval 40‑3.2‑206
Coal plant retirements - replacement resources 40‑3.2‑207
Cost recovery - legislative declaration 40‑3.2‑208
Air quality planning 40‑3.2‑209
Early reductions 40‑3.2‑210
Exemption from limits on voluntary emission reductions
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