NRS704.663. Certain public utilities furnishing water or sewage service: Regulations by Commission to consider certain requests by utility to recover costs or impose surcharge.

  The Commission shall adopt regulations specifying the information the Commission will consider:

      1.  In reviewing a request included in an application to make changes in any schedule submitted pursuant to NRS 704.110 by a public utility which furnishes, for compensation, any water for municipal, industrial or domestic purposes, or services for the disposal of sewage, or both, to recover an amount based on the anticipated effects of implementing a plan of water conservation, including, without limitation, the anticipated effects of decreased consumption of water by customers of the public utility as the result of the implementation of a plan for water conservation or the charging of rates to encourage water conservation;

      2.  In reviewing a request included in an application to make changes in any schedule submitted pursuant to NRS 704.110 by a public utility which furnishes, for compensation, any water for municipal, industrial or domestic purposes, or services for the disposal of sewage, or both, to recover the costs of providing service without regard to the difference in the quantity of water actually sold by the public utility by taking into account the adjusted and annualized quantity of water sold during a test year and the growth in the number of customers of the public utility; and

      3.  In reviewing a request included in a plan or amendment to a plan submitted pursuant to NRS 704.661 by a public utility which furnishes, for compensation, any water for municipal, industrial or domestic purposes, or services for the disposal of sewage, or both, and which had an annual gross operating revenue of $1,000,000 or more for at least 1 year during the immediately preceding 3 years or, if the public utility is authorized to follow the simplified procedures or methodologies for a change of rates pursuant to NRS 704.095, made in such other form as prescribed by the Commission, to impose a surcharge for the purpose of funding and encouraging investment in infrastructure in the period between the filing of rate cases by the public utility. The imposition of any such surcharge approved by the Commission is not subject to the provisions of NRS 704.110.

      (Added to NRS by 2013, 2311)