spelled-out in Appendix A at the conclusion of this Order. We shall review each item in turn. (a) Eligible Property Petition Peoples’ Peoples designates the same property as DSIC-eligible as it included in its LTIIP, including piping, couplings, gas service lines, valves, risers, and meters. Details of DSIC-eligible property are discussed thoroughly in the LTIIP section of this Peoples’ Order. Eligible property for NGDCs is defined in Section 1352, 66 Pa. C.S. § 1351(2). As noted in the LTIIP discussion above, Peoples proposes to include its investment in customer-owned gas service lines in its DSIC. Replacing these service lines is an integral part of strategy for improving the safety and quality of its Peoples’ distribution system. The bare-steel customer-owned service lines have been subject to the same elements that affect the physical integrity of the company-owned mains that are being replaced. Peoples asserts that replacing the customer-owned service lines as part of its SMP will result in lower overall costs for the replacement program, in addition to achieving time efficiencies and minimizing service down times. While the customer owns these service lines, it is necessary for Peoples to undertake replacement of them on its own in order to maintain the speed and efficiency of its replacement strategy. The Commission previously approved a petition by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc. (Columbia), at Docket No. P00072337 and granted by Commission Order entered May 19, 2008, to allow replacement of all customer-owned service lines at the cost where doing so is necessitated by main replacement and Company’s Columbia’s upgrade program. The cost of replacement of customer-owned service lines has been
spelled-out in Appendix A at the conclusion of this Order. We shall review each item in turn. (a) Eligible Property Peoples’ Petition Peoples designates the same property as DSIC-eligible as it included in its LTIIP, including piping, couplings, gas service lines, valves, risers, and meters. Details of Peoples’ DSIC-eligible property are discussed thoroughly in the LTIIP section of this Order. Eligible property for NGDCs is defined in Section 1352, 66 Pa. C.S. § 1351(2). As noted in the LTIIP discussion above, Peoples proposes to include its investment in customer-owned gas service lines in its DSIC. Replacing these service lines is an integral part of Peoples’ strategy for improving the safety and quality of its distribution system. The bare-steel customer-owned service lines have been subject to the same elements that affect the physical integrity of the company-owned mains that are being replaced. Peoples asserts that replacing the customer-owned service lines as part of its SMP will result in lower overall costs for the replacement program, in addition to achieving time efficiencies and minimizing service down times. While the customer owns these service lines, it is necessary for Peoples to undertake replacement of them on its own in order to maintain the speed and efficiency of its replacement strategy. The Commission previously approved a petition by Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania Inc. (Columbia), at Docket No. P00072337 and granted by Commission Order entered May 19, 2008, to allow replacement of all customer-owned service lines at the Company’s cost where doing so is necessitated by Columbia’s main replacement and upgrade program. The cost of replacement of customer-owned service lines has been
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