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PURA staff, utilities review proposed PFAS recovery forms; companies urge added data fields, sampling and audit flexibility
Summary
At a PURA technical meeting on proposed WQTA filing forms, staff walked through forms for initial filings, annual reconciliations and charge calculations for PFAS-related recovery. Utilities asked for extra columns to separate initial monitoring and ongoing compliance, flagged reporting and invoice-sampling burdens, and parties discussed audits and inspections.
Commissioner Jan Beecher convened a technical meeting of the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to review proposed Water Quality and Treatment Adjustment (WQTA) filing forms designed to let water companies recover costs tied to new drinking-water regulations, including PFAS, outside general rate cases.
PURA staff lead Mark Benedetti told participants the forms are intended to create "a consistent and transparent regulatory process for WQTA recovery" and situate filings under what he cited as "public act 25 1 42." He summarized the filing flow: an initial filing to establish project eligibility and present monitoring results and costs; an Authority assessment (the WQTA decision); and annual filings and reconciliations that determine the WQTA surcharge. Staff noted statutory limits on the surcharge—no more than 15% of a company's approved annual retail water revenues and no more than 7.5% of those revenues for any 12‑month period.
Company representatives recommended changes to the forms to…
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