May 10, 2012, the Commission issued a Tentative Implementation Order addressing and incorporating input from the stakeholder meeting. Stakeholders filed comments to the Tentative Implementation Order on June 6, 2012. On August 2, 2012, the Commission issued the Final Implementation Order, at Docket No. M20122293611, establishing procedures and guidelines necessary to implement Act 11. PEOPLES’ SERVICE LINE WAIVER PETITION Petition Peoples’ Before the Commission is the Waiver Petition of Peoples, for the approval of limited waivers of certain tariff rules relating to customer service line replacement, filed on February 1, 2013. The tariff rules provide that certain customers are responsible for the installation, maintenance, and replacement of their customer-owned service lines as needed. Peoples seeks limited waivers of these tariff provisions, where the owned service lines must be replaced as a result of its Smart Modernization Plan (SMP). Beginning in 2011, Peoples commenced its SMP program to replace all of its cast iron, unprotected bare steel, and some cathodically-protected steel gas mains a – total of roughly 2,300 miles of pipeline over a twenty year period, the early years of – which have been described and incorporated in LTIIP addressed in this Order. Peoples’ Cast iron and bare steel mains are the highest risk pipe in system and as such, Peoples’ Peoples intends to replace them with hardened (polyethylene) plastic mains. In carrying out this main replacement plan, Peoples also intends to replace the adjacent services a – being the section of company owned line extending from the gas main to the “service” curb box at a Replacement of the services at the same time as customer’s property. replacement of the adjacent gas main is both a prudent and efficient practice, and Peoples estimates doing so to approximately 61,000 services over the span of its 20 year SMP.
May 10, 2012, the Commission issued a Tentative Implementation Order addressing and incorporating input from the stakeholder meeting. Stakeholders filed comments to the Tentative Implementation Order on June 6, 2012. On August 2, 2012, the Commission issued the Final Implementation Order, at Docket No. M20122293611, establishing procedures and guidelines necessary to implement Act 11. PEOPLES’ SERVICE LINE WAIVER PETITION Peoples’ Petition Before the Commission is the Waiver Petition of Peoples, for the approval of limited waivers of certain tariff rules relating to customer service line replacement, filed on February 1, 2013. The tariff rules provide that certain customers are responsible for the installation, maintenance, and replacement of their customer-owned service lines as needed. Peoples seeks limited waivers of these tariff provisions, where the service lines must be replaced as a result of its Smart Modernization Plan (SMP). Beginning in 2011, Peoples commenced its SMP program to replace all of its cast iron, unprotected bare steel, and some cathodically-protected steel gas mains – a total of roughly 2,300 miles of pipeline – over a twenty year period, the early years of which have been described and incorporated in Peoples’ LTIIP addressed in this Order. Cast iron and bare steel mains are the highest risk pipe in Peoples’ system and as such, Peoples intends to replace them with hardened (polyethylene) plastic mains. In carrying out this main replacement plan, Peoples also intends to replace the adjacent services – a “service” being the section of company owned line extending from the gas main to the curb box at a customer’s property. Replacement of the services at the same time as replacement of the adjacent gas main is both a prudent and efficient practice, and Peoples estimates doing so to approximately 61,000 services over the span of its 20 year SMP. owned