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Colorado Springs Utilities seeks daily gas fee to fund accelerated pipe replacement; council signals preliminary support
Summary
At a public hearing, Colorado Springs Utilities proposed a temporary daily bill rider to fund an accelerated Distribution Integrity Management Program required by federal regulators; council gave preliminary assent and staff will prepare final documents for April work sessions and an April 28 adoption vote to take effect July 1.
Colorado Springs Utilities told the City Council April 14 that federal regulators require the utility to speed replacement of legacy natural-gas distribution materials, and asked the council to allow a temporary, transparent bill rider to recover the added cost.
Scott Scirola, Manager of Pricing and Rates for Colorado Springs Utilities, said federal requirements following recent inspections require a step increase in replacement work: the utility's baseline had been replacing about 5 miles of distribution main and roughly 550 services per year, but the regulator-driven acceleration would require more than 60 miles of main and over 11,000 service-line replacements within roughly the next nine years. To fund that work, CSU proposed a daily fixed fee (a…
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