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PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
OF WEST VIRGINIA
CHARLESTON

CASE NO. 24-0496-G-390P

HOPE GAS, INC.
Annual Pipeline Replacement and Expansion Program and Application to Implement Modification to Existing PREP Gathering Program

NOTICE OF FILING AND HEARING

On May 31, 2024, Hope Gas, Inc. (Hope) filed its Annual Pipeline Replacement and Expansion Program (PREP) Filing with revised PREP Rates, pursuant to W. Va. Code sect. 24-2-1k, which authorizes the Public Service Commission of West Virginia (Commission) to approve cost recovery of projects to replace, upgrade, and expand natural gas utility infrastructure that are deemed to be just and reasonable and in the public interest.

Additionally, pursuant to Commission Order in Case No. 23-0317-G-PC, Hope shall assess and collect a surcharge rate increment (Legacy Surcharge) on each customer that becomes a customer of Hope through Hope's acquisition of additional gas utilities (or their assets) and merged into Hope on and after January 1, 2023. The Legacy Surcharge shall be a rate equal to Hope's PREP rate for the customer's appropriate class.

In its base case PREP Filing, Hope projects PREP capital investment for calendar year 2025 of $65.5 million as part of its General Program (core distribution system) and Gathering Program (gathering facilities) under multi-year plans. The PREP Filing also contains a true-up for actual versus projected 2023 calendar year PREP capital investment activity for both the General Program and the Gathering Program. The PREP covers several categories of plant asset replacements and improvements, including mains, service lines, regulator stations and other plant equipment. These plant investments are proposed to be made in Hope service territories throughout the State. These projects are identified in the PREP Filing, which is on file and available for public inspection at the Commission's offices at 201 Brooks Street, Charleston, West Virginia.

In this annual PREP filing, Hope is also reconciling actual costs under Southern Public Service Company's (Southern) Infrastructure Replacement and Expansion Program as directed by the Commission in a prior order approving Hope's acquisition and merger of Southern into Hope.

Hope proposes to recover costs associated with these investments through an increment within the fixed or volumetric, base rate component of its rates depending on the applicable rate schedule under which service is rendered, to be effective on November 1, 2024. Hope projects that if the program and rate increments are approved as requested, the average monthly bill for the various classes of customers will be changed on November 1, 2024, as follows.

The increases shown are based on averages of all customers in the indicated classes. Each class may receive an increase greater or less than stated here. Individual customers may receive increases that are greater or less than average. Furthermore, the requested rates and charges are only a proposal and are subject to change (increase or decrease) by the Commission in its review of this filing. Any increase in rates and charges will not become effective until authorized and approved by the Commission.

The Commission adopted the following procedural schedule:

If the Commission receives no opposition to the PREP Filing within one week of the hearing date, the hearing may be waived, and the Commission may issue a final Order within 150 days of the filing date.

Anyone desiring to intervene should file a written petition to intervene within twenty (20) days following the date of this publication unless otherwise modified by Commission Order. All requests to intervene should briefly state the reason for the request to intervene and comply with the rules on intervention set forth in the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure. The Commission will receive public comments until the beginning of the hearing. All written comments and requests to intervene should state the case name and number and be addressed to Karen Buckley, Executive Secretary, P.O. Box 812, Charleston, West Virginia 25323. Public Comments may also be filed online at http://www.psc.state.wv.us/scripts/online comments/default.cfm by clicking the "Formal Case" link.

HOPE GAS, INC.

Posted 93 weeks ago

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STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTM...

STATE OF WEST VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
DIVISION OF MINING AND
RECLAMATION

PUBLIC NOTICE OF
BLASTING OPERATIONS

Notice is hereby given that:

Resilient Mining, LLC
(Company Name)
1330 S Mayo TRL (Box 12),
3rd FL STE 302, Pikeville KY 41501
(Company Address)
770-296-4990
(Company Phone Number) S-3004-11
(Surface Mine Permit Number)

situated in Valley District of Fayette County, approximately 1.3 miles Northeast Kincaid, will be conducting blasting activities in accordance with all State and Federal Laws and as approved by the Department of Environmental Protection. Blasting activities will occur Monday through Saturday from "sunrise to sunset" (or list other specific times). No blasting shall be conducted on Sunday. Blasting is to Commence on August 22, 2024 and continue through August 22, 2025.
Ten minutes prior to and immediately after each blast, all access to the specific area will be safeguarded from unauthorized entry. The warning signal prior to each blast shall be from an air horn, siren, or other device audible to at least on half mile from the blast (list specific type of device). The warning will be given three (3) minutes prior to detonation and will consist of three
(3) short blasts of five (5) seconds duration with five (5) seconds between each blast. The all clear signal shall be one long blast from an air horn, siren, or other approved devices of twenty (20) seconds duration (list specific type of device).
Blasting shall be conducted in such a way so as to prevent adverse impacts to the public or the environment.
Blasting activities will not be conducted at times other than those announced in the blasting schedule except in the event of an emergency situation where rain, lightening, or other atmospheric conditions, or operator or public safety requires unscheduled detonations.

Posted 92 weeks ago

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TRUSTEE'S SALE OF VALUABLE REA...

TRUSTEE'S SALE OF
VALUABLE REAL ESTATE

The undersigned Substitute Trustee, by virtue of the authority vested in him by that certain Deed of Trust, dated December 6, 2010, and duly recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Fayette County, West Virginia, in Document No. 2010021929, in Book No. 868, at Page 765 and modified in Document No. 2016004853 MOD, in Book No. 965, at Page 734 and modified in Document No. 202100001615 MOD, in Book No. 1042, at Page 97, Melanie A Adkins did convey unto Richard A. Pill, Esq, Trustee(s), certain real property described in said Deed of Trust; and the beneficiary has elected to appoint Seneca Trustees, Inc., as Substitute Trustee; and default having been made under the aforementioned Deed of Trust, and the undersigned Substitute Trustee having been instructed by Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. to foreclose thereunder, will offer for sale at public auction at the front door of the Fayette County Courthouse in Fayetteville, West Virginia, on

August 19, 2024 at 2:30 PM

the following described real estate, together with its improvements, easements and appurtenances thereunto belonging, situate in 09 - Oak Hill District, Fayette County, West Virginia, and more particularly described as follows:

The following described tract or parcel of real estate situate in the City of Oak Hill, Plateau District, Fayette County, West Virginia, and being more particularly bounded and described as follows, to wit:
LOT NO. 101 of the Oak Hill Truck Farms, situate near the City of Oak Hill, Pleateau District, Fayette County, West Virginia, as shown more fully on a map or plat or record in the Office of the County Clerk of the Fayette County Commission in Map Book 4, at page 192, said lot fronting 100 feet on Valley Street (formerly erroneously referred to as 200 feet on Valley Street) and extending back adjacent to Lot 100, 121.3 feet, and being 100.15 feet on the back and extending back with Lot 102, 126.8 feet.
And being the same property acquired by Melanie A. Adkins by deed dated December 6, 2010, from, Mary J. Blankenship, to be recorded in the Office of the Clerk of the County Commission of Fayette County, West Virginia, prior to or simultaneously herewith.

At the time of the execution of the Deed of Trust, this property was reported to have an address of: 141 Valley Street, Oak Hill, WV 25901.

The referenced real estate will be conveyed with no covenants of warranty, and subject to all covenants, restrictions, easements, rights of way and reservations which may be a matter of record in the aforesaid Clerk's Office or visible upon the ground, all prior liens and encumbrances, including, without limitation, liens for real estate taxes, incinerator, sanitary and sewer charges. The purchasers at the sale shall be responsible for paying the recording costs and also the tax on the privilege of transferring real property (the cost of the tax stamp to be affixed to the deed). The purchasers shall be responsible for payment of all real estate taxes.

The subject property will be sold in "AS IS" condition. The Substitute Trustee shall be under no duty to cause any existing tenant or person occupying the subject property to vacate said property.

TERMS: $5000.00 in cash and/or certified funds as deposit at the time of sale with the balance due and payable within 30 days of the day of sale.

FEDERAL TAX LIEN: In the event that there are Federal Tax Liens against the property, the United States would have the right to redeem the property within a period of 120 days from the date of such sale or the period allowable for redemption under local law, whichever is longer.

Pursuant to the Deed of Trust, the Trustee may postpone the sale by public announcement at the time and place designated or by posting a notice of the same, and act by agent in the execution of the sale. The parties secured by the Deed of Trust reserve the right to purchase the property at such sale.

SENECA TRUSTEES, INC.
5000 Coombs Farm Drive,
Suite 104
Morgantown, WV 26508
(304) 413-0044
(304) 292-2918
Toll free: (888) 534-3132
Reference File No. 35664

Posted 94 weeks ago