Chapter 66 — OILS, FUELS, AND ENERGY
763 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1835 Public advocate; ex parte communications.
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In any proceeding before the commission in which the public advocate is a party or is appearing for a party, the public advocate shall be considered a party for purposes of the restrictions on ex parte communications set forth in sections 75-130.01 and 84-914.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1836 Investigations; powers.
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The commission is hereby authorized to designate or appoint, from among its employees, examiners and referees to make investigations that are required of the commission by law. Such investigations shall be made and conducted as and in the manner and at the place directed by the c…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1837 Commission; contract for services.
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(1) The commission is hereby authorized to contract for professional services and expert assistance, including, but not limited to, the services of engineers, accountants, attorneys, and economists, to assist in investigations and appraisals. (2) Such contracts shall be negotiate…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1838 General rate filings; requirements.
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(1) The provisions of this section apply only to general rate filings. (2) Except as provided in subsection (3) of this section, a jurisdictional utility shall provide written notice to each city that will be affected by a proposed change in rates simultaneously with the filing w…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1839 Municipal Rate Negotiations Revolving Loan Fund; created; use; administration; audit; investment; loan repayment.
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(1) The Municipal Rate Negotiations Revolving Loan Fund is created. The fund shall be used to make loans to cities for rate negotiations under section 66-1838 or negotiations or litigation under section 66-1867, except that transfers may be made from the fund to the General Fund …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1840 Commission; investigation expenses; assessment against jurisdictional utility; procedure.
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(1) Whenever, in order to carry out the duties imposed upon it by law, the commission, in a proceeding upon its own motion, on complaint, or upon an application to it, including rate filings, deems it necessary to investigate any jurisdictional utility or make appraisals of the p…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1841 Commission; determination of total expenditures; assessment against jurisdictional utilities; limitation.
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(1) The commission shall determine, within thirty days after each quarter-year for each such quarter-year, the total amount of its expenditures during such period of time. The total amount shall include the salaries of members and employees and all other lawful expenditures of th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1842 Public Service Commission Regulation Fund; created; use; investment.
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The Public Service Commission Regulation Fund is created. Transfers may be made from the Public Service Commission Regulation Fund to the General Fund at the direction of the Legislature. The commission shall remit all money received by or for it in payment of the fees or assessm…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1843 Jurisdictional utility; failure to pay assessment; procedure.
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If any jurisdictional utility against which an assessment has been made pursuant to the State Natural Gas Regulation Act, within fifteen days after the notice of such assessment, (1) neglects or refuses to pay the same or (2) fails to file objections to the assessment with the co…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1844 Jurisdictional utility; objections to assessment; procedure.
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(1) Within fifteen days after the date of the mailing of any notice of assessment under sections 66-1840 and 66-1841, the jurisdictional utility against which such assessment has been made may file with the commission objections setting out in detail the ground upon which such ob…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1845 Jurisdictional utility; assessment; action to recover.
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Every jurisdictional utility against which an assessment is made shall pay the amount thereof and, after such payment, may under the conditions in the State Natural Gas Regulation Act, at any time within one year from the date the payment was made, sue the state in an action at l…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1846 Action to recover assessment; requirements.
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(1) No action for recovery of any amount paid pursuant to the State Natural Gas Regulation Act shall be maintained in any court unless objections have been filed with the commission as provided in section 66-1844. In any action for recovery of any payments made under the act, the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1847 Public natural gas utilities; requirements.
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Natural gas utilities owned and operated by a city or a metropolitan utilities district shall establish rates and conditions of service for all residential ratepayers of each such utility in a nondiscriminatory manner.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1848 Competitive natural gas providers and aggregators; terms, defined.
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For purposes of this section and section 66-1849: (1) Aggregator means a person who combines retail end users into a group and arranges for the acquisition of competitive natural gas services without taking title to those services; and (2)(a) Competitive natural gas provider mean…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1849 Competitive natural gas providers and aggregators; certification by commission; costs and expenses; allocation.
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(1) The commission shall certify all competitive natural gas providers and aggregators providing natural gas services. In an application for certification, a competitive natural gas provider or aggregator shall reasonably demonstrate managerial, technical, and financial capabilit…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1850 Act; enforcement; prior law; applicability.
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(1) The State Natural Gas Regulation Act shall not be enforced retroactively before May 31, 2003. A rate filing made pursuant to the provisions of the Municipal Natural Gas Regulation Act prior to such date shall be governed by the act by its terms as in effect on the date of the…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1851 Jurisdictional utility; customer choice or other programs; how treated.
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(1) Notwithstanding any other provisions in the State Natural Gas Regulation Act, a jurisdictional utility may file with the commission rates and one or more rate schedules and other charges, and rules and regulations pertaining thereto, that enable the utility to provide service…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1852 Extension of natural gas mains or other services; limitations.
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(1) Except as otherwise expressly authorized in the State Natural Gas Regulation Act, no person, public or private, shall extend duplicative or redundant natural gas mains or other natural gas services into any area which has existing natural gas utility infrastructure or where a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1853 Certificate of public convenience; requirements.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, no jurisdictional utility shall transact business in Nebraska until it has obtained a certificate from the commission that public convenience will be promoted by the transaction of the business and permitting the applicant…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1854 Cost of gas supply; effect on rate schedules; procedure.
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(1) The commission shall allow jurisdictional utilities to implement and thereafter modify gas supply cost adjustment rate schedules that reflect increases or decreases in the cost of the utility's gas supply such as (a) federally regulated wholesale rates for energy delivered th…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1855 Banded rates; commission; powers.
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The commission may authorize, consistent with general regulatory principles, including, but not limited to (1) banded rates with a minimum and maximum rate that allows the jurisdictional utility to offer ratepayers rates within the rate band for the purpose of attracting addition…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1856 Construction of new facilities; prior approval not required.
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A jurisdictional utility shall not be required to obtain prior approval from the commission to begin the construction of any new plant, equipment, property, or facility that the utility determines to be necessary to provide adequate and reliable service to ratepayers.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1857 Rights and remedies; how construed.
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The rights and remedies given by the State Natural Gas Regulation Act shall be construed as cumulative of all other laws in force in this state relating to jurisdictional utilities and shall not repeal any other remedies or rights now existing in this state for the enforcement of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1858 Metropolitan utilities district; solicitations prohibited; proposals authorized; when.
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Whenever any city is furnished natural gas pursuant to a franchise agreement with a jurisdictional utility, a metropolitan utilities district shall not solicit such city to enter into a franchise agreement or promote discontinuance of natural gas service with the utility unless a…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1859 Enlargement or extension of area; applicability of sections.
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Sections 66-1858 to 66-1864 shall be applicable to a jurisdictional utility only when it is operating in a county in which there is located the natural gas service area, or portion of the natural gas service area, of a metropolitan utilities district and only with regard to matte…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1860 Enlargement or extension of area; considerations.
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No jurisdictional utility or metropolitan utilities district may extend or enlarge its natural gas service area or extend or enlarge its natural gas mains or natural gas services unless it is in the public interest to do so. In determining whether or not an extension or enlargeme…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1861 Enlargement or extension of area; rebuttable presumptions.
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In determining whether an enlargement or extension of a natural gas service area, natural gas mains, or natural gas services is in the public interest pursuant to section 66-1860, the following shall constitute rebuttable presumptions: (1) Any enlargement or extension by a metrop…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1862 Duplicative gas mains or services; prohibited.
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A metropolitan utilities district or jurisdictional utility shall not extend duplicative or redundant interior natural gas mains or natural gas services into a subdivision, whether residential, commercial, or industrial, which has existing natural gas utility infrastructure or wh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1863 Enlargement or extension of area; review by Public Service Commission; when required.
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(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) and (3) of this section, no jurisdictional utility or metropolitan utilities district proposing to extend or enlarge its natural gas service area or extend or enlarge its natural gas mains or natural gas services after July 14, 2006, shal…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1864 Enlargement or extension of area; records; open to public; use.
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All books, records, vouchers, papers, contracts, engineering designs, and any other data of the metropolitan utilities district relating to the public interest of an extension or enlargement of natural gas mains or natural gas services or relating to natural gas service areas, wh…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1865 Jurisdictional utility; application and proposed rate schedules; filing; commission; powers.
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(1) Beginning January 1, 2010, a jurisdictional utility may file an application and proposed rate schedules with the commission to establish or change infrastructure system replacement cost recovery charge rate schedules that will allow for the adjustment of the jurisdictional ut…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1866 Jurisdictional utility; prior filing not subject to negotiations; application for infrastructure system replacement cost recovery charge; duties; public advocate; duties; commission; powers; change in rate schedules.
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(1) This section applies to applications for an infrastructure system replacement cost recovery charge by a jurisdictional utility whose last general rate filing was not the subject of negotiations with affected cities as provided for in section 66-1838. (2) When a jurisdictional…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1867 Jurisdictional utility; prior filing subject to negotiations; application for infrastructure system replacement cost recovery charge; duties; affected cities; powers; commission; powers; change in rate schedules.
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(1) This section applies to applications for an infrastructure system replacement cost recovery charge by a jurisdictional utility whose last general rate filing was the subject of negotiations with affected cities as provided for in section 66-1838. (2) When a jurisdictional uti…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-1868 Rural infrastructure development; rural infrastructure surcharge tariff; filing in additional filings; agreement; contents; gas supply cost adjustment tariff; collection; refund; billing.
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(1) Prior to undertaking rural infrastructure development pursuant to sections 66-2101 to 66-2107, a jurisdictional utility shall file a rural infrastructure surcharge tariff with the commission consistent with the agreement negotiated pursuant to subsection (2) of this section. …
Repealed. Laws 2015, LB 469, § 19.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Repealed. Laws 2026, LB905, § 69.
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[Repealed or reserved.]
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-201 Act, how cited.
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Sections 66-201 to 66-204 shall be known and may be cited as the Nebraska Clean-burning Motor Fuel Development Act.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-202 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of the Nebraska Clean-burning Motor Fuel Development Act: (1) Flex-fuel dispenser means a fuel dispenser that is certified by the manufacturer for use with ethanol blended fuels containing at least fifteen percent by volume ethanol; (2) Motor vehicle means a motor ve…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-203 Rebate for qualified clean-burning motor vehicle fuel property.
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(1) The Department of Water, Energy, and Environment shall offer a rebate for qualified clean-burning motor vehicle fuel property. (2)(a) The rebate for qualified clean-burning motor vehicle fuel property as defined in subdivisions (4)(a) and (b) of section 66-202 is the lesser o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-204 Clean-burning Motor Fuel Development Fund; created; use; investment.
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(1) The Clean-burning Motor Fuel Development Fund is created. The fund shall consist of grants, private contributions, and all other sources. (2) The fund shall be used by the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment to provide rebates under the Nebraska Clean-burning Motor F…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2101 Legislative declaration.
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The Legislature declares it is the public policy of this state to provide adequate natural gas pipeline facilities and service in order to expand and diversify the Nebraska economy resulting in increased employment, new and expanded businesses and industries, and new and expanded…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2102 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 66-2101 to 66-2107: (1) City means a city of the first or second class or village; (2) Jurisdictional utility has the same meaning as in section 66-1802; (3) Natural gas pipeline facility means a pipeline, pump, compressor, or storage or other facility, s…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2103 City; utilization of funds; powers.
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A city that has been authorized to utilize funds pursuant to the Local Option Municipal Economic Development Act for purposes of sections 66-1868 and 66-2101 to 66-2107 shall have all necessary powers to implement and to carry out its powers and duties under such sections.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2104 Rural infrastructure development; jurisdictional utility; powers.
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A jurisdictional utility may undertake rural infrastructure development necessary to supply unserved or underserved areas in or adjacent to areas presently served by the jurisdictional utility and not served by another jurisdictional utility.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2105 Jurisdictional utility; consider factors.
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Prior to undertaking rural infrastructure development, a jurisdictional utility shall consider factors such as the economic impact to the area, economic feasibility, whether other options may be more in the public interest, such as utilization of any existing or planned interstat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2106 Jurisdictional utility; applicability of other law.
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A jurisdictional utility shall not be subject to the State Natural Gas Regulation Act to the extent it is exercising power granted in section 66-2104 except as specifically provided otherwise but shall be subject to sections 75-501 to 75-503.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2107 Sections; applicability.
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Sections 66-2101 to 66-2106 do not apply to a natural gas utility owned or operated by a city or a metropolitan utilities district.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2201 Terms, defined.
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For purposes of sections 66-2201 to 66-2207: (1) Department means the Department of Water, Energy, and Environment; (2) E-15 means a blend of ethanol and gasoline in which ethanol comprises fifteen percent of the blend by volume; (3) E-85 means a blend of ethanol and gasoline in …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2202 Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Program; created.
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The Renewable Fuel Infrastructure Program is created. The purpose of the program is to improve retail motor fuel sites by installing, replacing, or converting ethanol infrastructure to be used to store, blend, or dispense renewable fuel. The program shall function as a grant prog…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 66-2203 Grant; application; ethanol infrastructure project; eligibility for grant.
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(1) A person shall be eligible to apply for a grant under the program if the person is an owner or operator of a retail motor fuel site. (2) An ethanol infrastructure project shall be eligible for a grant under the program if such project is: (a) Designed and used exclusively to …