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Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2016
Impact Of The Penalty Decision

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Three Months

 

Cumulative

 

Future

 

 

 

Ended

 

Charges

 

Charges

 

 

 

 

March 31,

 

 

March 31,

 

and

 

    Total

(in millions)

2016

 

2016

 

Costs

 

Amount

Fine paid to the state

$

- 

 

$ 

300 

 

$ 

- 

 

$ 

300 

Customer bill credit

 

- 

 

 

400 

 

 

- 

 

 

400 

Charge for disallowed capital (1)

 

87 

 

 

494 

 

 

195 

 

 

689 

Disallowed revenue for pipeline safety

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  expenses (2)

 

- 

 

 

- 

 

 

161 

 

 

161 

CPUC estimated cost of other remedies (3)

 

- 

 

 

- 

 

 

- 

 

 

50 

Total Penalty Decision fines and remedies

$

87 

 

$ 

1,194 

 

$ 

356 

 

$ 

1,600 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) The Penalty Decision disallows the Utility from recovering $850 million in costs associated with pipeline safety-related projects and programs that the CPUC will identify in a final decision to be issued in the Utility’s 2015 GT&S rate case. The Penalty Decision requires that at least $689 million of the $850 million cost disallowance be allocated to capital expenditures. The Utility estimates that approximately $494 million of cumulative capital spending is probable of disallowance, subject to adjustment based on the final 2015 GT&S rate case decision.

(2) These costs are being expensed as incurred. Future GT&S revenues will be reduced for these unrecovered expenses.

(3) In the Penalty Decision, the CPUC estimated that the Utility would incur $50 million to comply with the remedies specified in the Penalty Decision and does not reflect the Utility’s remedy-related costs already incurred nor the Utility’s estimated future remedy-related costs. These costs are being expensed as incurred.

Schedule Of Environmental Remediation Liability

 

Balance at

 

March 31,

 

December 31,

(in millions)

2016

 

2015

Topock natural gas compressor station (1)

$

302 

 

$ 

300 

Hinkley natural gas compressor station (1)

 

140 

 

 

140 

Former manufactured gas plant sites owned by the Utility or third parties

 

283 

 

 

271 

Utility-owned generation facilities (other than fossil fuel-fired),

  other facilities, and third-party disposal sites

 

136 

 

 

164 

Fossil fuel-fired generation facilities and sites

 

103 

 

 

94 

Total environmental remediation liability

$

964 

 

$ 

969 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(1) See “Natural Gas Compressor Station Sites” below.