Consulting engineer outlines natural gas impact-fee analysis; regulator station would change fees

Jack Clackner of Sunrise Engineering presented the town’s natural gas impact-fee analysis and explained the methodology used to translate projected 2024 loads into equivalent residential connections. “My name is Jack Clackner. I’m the engineer at Sunrise Engineering. I prepared the impact fee analysis report,” he said, noting the report was signed by Darren Fox.

Clackner told the council the Mona distribution system is essentially at a 100% level of service and that the analysis separates project improvements (charged to a developer for demand created by a specific project) from system improvements (projects that benefit existing customers). He summarized how the study converts commercial and industrial loads to equivalent residential connections and then divides project costs across those equivalents to arrive at per-connection fees. During the presentation he mentioned two fee figures as part of the analysis.

He also said that adding a new regulator station would create excess capacity that should be allocated across customers and would therefore change the impact-fee calculation; the final fee would depend on where a regulator station is located and the system geometry. Council members asked whether cost-sharing with neighboring jurisdictions (for example, Nephi) might be feasible and were advised that any change would require recalculation.