Nevada Code § 704.663

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

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