Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 69. PUBLIC UTILITIES AND CARRIERS

CHAPTER 3. REGULATION OF UTILITIES

Part 3. Ratemaking Procedures

Cost Tracking And Recovery

69-3-331. Cost tracking and recovery. (1) If the commission approves a cost-tracking adjustment for a public utility regulated in accordance with chapter 8 or under this chapter, the cost-tracking adjustment must provide for:

(a) identical treatment of public utilities subject to chapter 8 or this chapter;

(b) 90% customer and 10% shareholder sharing of costs, if cost sharing is required; and

(c) full recovery of costs incurred by a public utility as a result of qualifying small power production facility purchase requirements established in Title 69, chapter 3, part 6.

(2) A cost-tracking adjustment may not include a deadband.

(3) For the purposes of this section, "deadband" means a level of cost recovery variance, including levels of underrecoveries and overrecoveries to be borne by the public utility.

History: En. Sec. 1, Ch. 316, L. 2019.