Bill Text: IL HB2172 | 2019-2020 | 101st General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the Service Obligations and Conditions Article of the Public Utilities Act. Requires a natural gas public utility serving more than 35,000 customers to submit with its annual filing certain information concerning existing and newly installed pipeline facilities to the Illinois Commerce Commission. Requires the Commission to submit a report containing the information and evaluating the safety and reliability of the natural gas distribution system in Illinois to the General Assembly. Requires the reports to be made available to the public on the Commission's website.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-29 - House Committee Amendment No. 1 Rule 19(c) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB2172 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2019-HB2172-Introduced.html

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101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2019 and 2020 HB2172 Introduced , by Rep. Thomas Morrison SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
220 ILCS 5/8-512 new
Amends the Service Obligations and Conditions Article of the Public Utilities Act. Requires a natural gas public utility serving more than 35,000 customers to submit with its annual filing certain information concerning existing and newly installed pipeline facilities to the Illinois Commerce Commission. Requires the Commission to submit a report containing the information and evaluating the safety and reliability of the natural gas distribution system in Illinois to the General Assembly. Requires the reports to be made available to the public on the Commission's website.
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AN ACT concerning regulation.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 5. The Public Utilities Act is amended by adding
Section 8-512 as follows:
(220 ILCS 5/8-512 new)
Sec. 8-512. Natural gas facility reporting.
(a) The General Assembly finds that the safety and
reliability of the natural gas distribution system in Illinois
is important to the health and welfare of the citizenry of this
State. National and local events have demonstrated the
importance of regular maintenance and replacement of gas
pipeline and related facilities. In order to preserve the
health and welfare of citizens and avoid the burden of large
financial expenditures to remedy delayed pipeline replacement,
the General Assembly finds that each natural gas utility
subject to this Section shall be required to annually report to
the Commission its existing and newly installed pipeline
facilities in order to allow the Commission to monitor and
address as necessary natural gas utilities' pipeline
replacement programs.
(b) Each natural gas public utility serving more than
35,000 customers shall submit to the Commission with its annual

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Form 21 ILCC filing the following additional information for a
pipeline owned and operated by the utility as of December 31 of
the preceding calendar year:
(1) the length in feet categorized by year of
installation;
(2) the length in feet categorized by diameter size and
material composed of;
(3) the length in feet categorized by scheduled
replacement year, if any;
(4) the length in feet installed during the preceding
calendar year for the purpose of replacing existing
pipeline and under a tariff authorized by Section 9-220.3
categorized by diameter size and material composed of;
(5) the length in feet installed during the preceding
calendar year for the purpose of replacing existing
pipeline and not under a tariff authorized by Section
9-220.3 categorized by diameter size and material composed
of;
(6) the length in feet installed during the preceding
calendar year not for the purpose of replacing existing
pipeline categorized by diameter size and material
composed of;
(7) the cost incurred and associated number of meters,
by individual project, for the construction activities
described in paragraphs (4), (5), and (6); and
(8) for the construction activities described in

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paragraphs (4), (5), and (6), a brief description of the
reason for the activities.
(c) No later than October 1 of each year, the Commission
shall submit to the General Assembly a report containing the
information set forth in subsection (b) and evaluating the
safety and reliability of the natural gas distribution system
in Illinois. The Commission report shall address the
sufficiency of utility plans for replacing obsolete pipeline
and maintaining the safety and reliability of their respective
gas distribution systems.
(d) The annual reports submitted to the Commission by the
natural gas utilities and the report submitted by the
Commission to the General Assembly shall be made available to
the public on the Commission's website. The first reports of
the additional information required under subsection (b) shall
be for 2018 and submitted to the Commission in 2019.
(e) If the Commission deems it necessary, it may adopt
rules to facilitate implementation of the reporting
requirements contained in this Section. The Commission may
require additional information from the gas utilities subject
to this Section if necessary to provide the report to the
General Assembly required under subsection (c).