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Attachment C - Flow -Chart of Communications Between Xcel Energy and a City <br />Requesting or Ordering Installation of Electric Distribution Facilities as a Special Facility <br />City <br />1) City contacts Xcel Energy regarding potential <br />electric distribution project. <br />3) City reviews project information, verifies or <br />changes project information and assumptions, <br />signs Scoping Estimate form and returns it to Xcel <br />Energy. <br />5) City decides to proceed with obtaining an <br />engineering estimate, notifies Xcel Energy. <br />7) If: (1) City decides to order Xcel Energy to install <br />special or standard facilities, or (2) if this is a distribution <br />undergrounding request and City chooses not to prepay <br />and allows Xcel Energy to recover excess expenditures <br />via the CRFS Rider, then see (8). <br />10) Within 60 days from receipt of surcharge notification <br />a City ordering installation of special facilities can <br />respond regarding its preferred payment option <br />provided by the tariff, or notify MPUC of the City's <br />objection to the imposition of the surcharge. <br />Xcel Energy <br />4) Xcel Energy develops scoping estimate of cost of the <br />project as requested or ordered by City and cost of project using <br />standard Installation, and preliminarily verifies whether the <br />project as requested by City is a "special facilities" project. <br />Xcel Energy completes and returns the "Scoping Estimate" form. <br />6) Xcel Energy completes and provides City a detailed <br />engineering -based cost estimate that provides: additional <br />detail on project using both standard and special facility <br />installations; excess expenditures; <br />amounts as per CRFS Rider tariff <br />8) Xcel Energy sends construction notification confirmation <br />letter and commences construction. <br />9) Xcel Energy completes construction and sends notice <br />of CRFS surcharge implementation. <br />11) If City does not respond or file an objection, CRFS rate <br />surcharge is implemented. <br />