Commission | Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter | State of | I.R.S. Employer | ||||||||
File Number | and principal office address and telephone number | Incorporation | Identification No. | ||||||||
0-49807
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Washington
Gas Light Company 101 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20080 (703) 750-4440 |
District of Columbia and Virginia |
53-0162882 | ||||||||
o | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) | |
o | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) | |
o | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) | |
o | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
(i) | approves the recovery of hexane commodity costs incurred after December 30, 2009 from sales and delivery service customers, subject to review as a component of Washington Gass cost of gas; | ||
(ii) | establishes the implementation of a coupling replacement and encapsulation program (program), wherein Washington Gas will replace or encapsulate a portion of its mechanically coupled pipe in the District of Columbia. The program is expected to conclude in approximately seven years with total spending not to exceed $28 million; | ||
(iii) | provides for the cost of the program to be recovered through an annual surcharge based on actual expenditures for coupling replacement and encapsulation that will become effective at the end of the existing base rate freeze (October 1, 2011). The cost will include both a return of and return on the cost of coupling replacement and encapsulation, computed in accordance with the terms of the rates currently in effect and | ||
(iv) | establishes periodic reporting on the level of hexane injected at each of Washington Gass hexane facilities with the associated commodity costs, and continued filing of leak-related information with the PSC of DC. |
Washington Gas Light Company (Registrant) |
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Date: December 22, 2009 | /s/ Mark P. OFlynn | |||
Mark P. OFlynn | ||||
Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) |
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