[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 11]
[Revised as of January 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1767.20]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
    CHAPTER XVII--RURAL UTILITIES SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1767--ACCOUNTING REQUIREMENTS FOR RUS ELECTRIC BORROWERS--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart B--Uniform System of Accounts
 
Sec. 1767.20  Plant accounts.

    The plant accounts identified in this section shall be used by all 
RUS borrowers.

                            Intangible Plant

301  Organization
302  Franchises and Consents
303  Miscellaneous Intangible Plant

                            Production Plant

                            Steam Production

310  Land and Land Rights
311  Structures and Improvements
312  Boiler Plant Equipment
313  Engines and Engine Driven Generators
314  Turbogenerator Units
315  Accessory Electric Equipment
316  Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

                           Nuclear Production

320  Land and Land Rights
321  Structures and Improvements
322  Reactor Plant Equipment
323  Turbogenerator Units
324  Accessory Electric Equipment
325  Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

                          Hydraulic Production

330  Land and Land Rights
331  Structures and Improvements
332  Reservoirs, Dams and Waterways
333  Water Wheels, Turbines and Generators
334  Accessory Electric Equipment
335  Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment
336  Roads, Railroads and Bridges

                            Other Production

340  Land and Land Rights
341  Structures and Improvements
342  Fuel Holders, Producers and Accessories
343  Prime Movers
344  Generators
345  Accessory Electric Equipment
346  Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

                           Transmission Plant

350  Land and Land Rights
351 [Reserved]
352  Structures and Improvements
353  Station Equipment
354  Tower and Fixtures
355  Poles and Fixtures
356  Overhead Conductors and Devices
357  Underground Conduit
358  Underground Conductors and Devices
359  Roads and Trails

                           Distribution Plant

360  Land and Land Rights
361  Structures and Improvements
362  Station Equipment
363  Storage Battery Equipment
364  Poles, Towers and Fixtures
365  Overhead Conductors and Devices
366  Underground Conduit
367  Underground Conductors and Devices
368  Line Transformers
369  Services
370  Meters
371  Installations on Customers' Premises
372  Leased Property on Customers' Premises
373  Street Lighting and Signal Systems

                              General Plant

389  Land and Land Rights
390  Structures and Improvements
391  Office Furniture and Equipment
392  Transportation Equipment
393  Stores Equipment
394  Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment
395  Laboratory Equipment
396  Power Operated Equipment
397  Communication Equipment
398  Miscellaneous Equipment
399  Other Tangible Property

                            Intangible Plant

                           301   Organization

    This account shall include all fees paid to Federal or state 
governments for the privilege of incorporation and expenditures incident 
to organizing the corporation, partnership, or other enterprise and 
putting it into readiness to do business.

                                  Items

    1. Cost of obtaining certificates authorizing an enterprise to 
engage in the public-utility business.
    2. Fees and expenses for incorporation.
    3. Fees and expenses for mergers or consolidations.
    4. Office expenses incident to organizing the utility.
    5. Stock and minute books and corporate seal.
    Note A: This account shall not include any discounts upon securities 
issued or assumed; nor shall it include any costs incident to 
negotiating loans, selling bonds or other evidences of debt or expenses 
in connection with the authorization, issuance, or sale of capital 
stock.
    Note B: Exclude from this account and include in the appropriate 
expense account the cost of preparing and filing papers in connection 
with the extension of the term of incorporation unless the first 
organization costs have been written off. When charges are

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made to this account for expenses incurred in mergers, consolidations, 
or reorganizations, amounts previously included herein or in similar 
accounts in the books of the companies concerned shall be excluded from 
this account.

                      302   Franchises and Consents

    A. This account shall include amounts paid to the Federal 
Government, to a state or to a political subdivision thereof in 
consideration for franchises, consents, water power licenses, or 
certificates, running in perpetuity or for a specified term of more than 
one year, together with necessary and reasonable expenses incident to 
procuring such franchises, consents, water power licenses, or 
certificates of permission and approval, including expenses of 
organizing and merging separate corporations, where statutes require, 
solely for the purpose of acquiring franchises.
    B. If a franchise, consent, water power license, or certificate is 
acquired by assignment, the charge to this account in respect thereof 
shall not exceed the amount paid therefor by the utility to the 
assignor, nor shall it exceed the amount paid by the original grantee, 
plus the expense of acquisition to such grantee. Any excess of the 
amount actually paid by the utility over the amount above specified 
shall be charged to Account 426.5, Other Deductions.
    C. When any franchise has expired, the book cost thereof shall be 
credited hereto and charged to Account 426.5, Other Deductions, or to 
Account 111, Accumulated Provision for Amortization of Electric Utility 
Plant, as appropriate.
    D. Records supporting this account shall be kept so as to show 
separately the book cost of each franchise or consent.
    Note: Annual or other periodic payments under franchises shall not 
be included herein but in the appropriate operating expense account.

                  303   Miscellaneous Intangible Plant

    A. This account shall include the cost of patent rights, licenses, 
privileges, and other intangible property necessary or valuable in the 
conduct of utility operations and not specifically chargeable to any 
other account.
    B. When any item included in this account is retired or expires, the 
book cost thereof shall be credited hereto and charged to Account 426.5, 
Other Deductions, or Account 111, Accumulated Provision for Amortization 
of Electric Utility Plant, as appropriate.
    C. This account shall be maintained in such a manner that the 
utility can furnish full information with respect to the amounts 
included herein.

                            Production Plant

                            Steam Production

                       310   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with steam-power generation. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).)

                    311   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used in connection with steam-power generation. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).)
    Note: Include steam production roads and railroads in this account.

                      312   Boiler Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of furnaces, boilers, 
coal and ash handling and coal preparing equipment, steam and feed water 
piping, boiler apparatus, and accessories used in the production of 
steam, mercury, or other vapor, to be used primarily for generating 
electricity.

                                  Items

    1. Ash handling equipment, including hoppers, gates, cars, 
conveyors, hoists, sluicing equipment, including pumps and motors, 
sluicing water pipe and fittings, sluicing trenches and accessories, 
except sluices which are a part of a building.
    2. Boiler feed system, including feed water heaters, evaporator 
condensers, heater drain pumps, heater drainers, deaerators, and vent 
condensers, boiler feed pumps, surge tanks, feed water regulators, feed 
water measuring equipment, and all associated drives.
    3. Boiler plant cranes and hoists and associated drives.
    4. Boilers and equipment, including boilers and baffles, 
economizers, superheaters, soot blowers, foundations and settings, water 
walls, arches, grates, insulation, blowdown system, drying out of new 
boilers, also associated motors or other power equipment.
    5. Breeching and accessories, including breeching, dampers, soot 
spouts, hoppers and gates, cinder eliminators, breeching insulation, 
soot blowers and associated motors.
    6. Coal handling and storage equipment, including coal towers, coal 
lorries, coal cars, locomotives and tracks when devoted principally to 
the transportation of coal, hoppers, downtakes, unloading and hoisting 
equipment, skip hoists and conveyors, weighing equipment, magnetic 
separators, cable ways, and housings and supports for coal handling 
equipment.
    7. Draft equipment, including air preheaters and accessories, 
induced and forced draft fans, air ducts, combustion control mechanisms, 
and associated motors or other power equipment.

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    8. Gas-burning equipment, including holders, burner equipment and 
piping, and control equipment.
    9. Instruments and devices, including all measuring, indicating, and 
recording equipment for boiler plant service together with mountings and 
supports.
    10. Lighting systems.
    11. Oil-burning equipment, including tanks, heaters, pumps with 
drive, burner equipment and piping, and control equipment.
    12. Pulverized fuel equipment, including pulverizers, accessory 
motors, primary air fans, cyclones and ducts, dryers, pulverized fuel 
bins, pulverized fuel conveyors and equipment, burners, burner piping, 
priming equipment, air compressors, and motors.
    13. Stacks, including foundations and supports, stack steel and 
ladders, stack brickwork, stack concrete, stack lining, stack painting 
(first), when set on separate foundations, independent of substructures 
or superstructures of building.
    14. Station piping, including pipe, valves, fittings, separators, 
traps, desuperheaters, hangers, excavation, and covering for station 
piping system, including all steam, condensate, boiler feed and water 
supply piping, but not condensing water, plumbing, building heating, 
oil, gas, air piping or piping specifically provided for in Account 313.
    15. Stoker or equivalent feeding equipment, including stokers and 
accessory motors, clinker grinders, fans and motors.
    16. Ventilating equipment.
    17. Water purification equipment, including softeners and 
accessories, evaporators and accessories, heat exchanges, filters, tanks 
for filtered or softened water, pumps, and motors.
    18. Water-supply systems, including pumps, motors, strainers, raw-
water storage tanks, boiler wash pumps, intake and discharge pipes, and 
tunnels not a part of a building.
    19. Wood fuel equipment, including hoppers, fuel hogs and 
accessories, elevators and conveyors, bins and gates, spouts, measuring 
equipment and associated drives.
    Note: When the system for supplying boiler or condenser water is 
elaborate, and when it includes a dam, reservoir, canal, pipe line, 
cooling ponds, or where gas or oil is used as a fuel for producing steam 
and is supplied through a pipe line system owned by the utility, the 
cost of such special facilities shall be charged to a subdivision of 
Account 311, Structures and Improvements.

               313   Engines and Engine Driven Generators

    This account shall include the cost installed of steam engines, 
reciprocating or rotary, and their associated auxiliaries; and engine-
driven main generators, except turbogenerator units.

                                  Items

    1. Air cleaning and cooling apparatus, including blowers, drive 
equipment, air ducts, not a part of building, louvers, pumps, and hoods.
    2. Belting, shafting, pulleys, and reduction gearing.
    3. Circulating pumps, including connections between condensers and 
intake and discharge tunnels.
    4. Cooling system, including towers, pumps, tank, and piping.
    5. Condensers, including condensate pumps, air and vacuum pumps, 
ejector unloading valves and vacuum breakers, expansion devices, and 
screens.
    6. Cranes and hoists, including items wholly identified with items 
listed herein.
    7. Engines, reciprocating or rotary.
    8. Fire-extinguishing systems.
    9. Foundations and settings, especially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    10. Generators-Main, a.c. or d.c., including field rheostats and 
connections for self-excited units, and excitation systems when 
identified with the generating unit.
    11. Governors.
    12. Lighting systems.
    13. Lubricating systems, including gauges, filters, tanks, pumps, 
piping, and motors.
    14. Mechanical meters, including gauges, recording instruments, 
sampling and testing equipment.
    15. Piping-main exhaust, including connections between generator and 
condenser and between condenser and hotwell.
    16. Piping-main stream, including connections from main throttle 
valve to turbine inlet.
    17. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to 
apparatus listed herein.
    18. Pressure oil system, including accumulators, pumps, piping, and 
motors.
    19. Throttle and inlet valve.
    20. Tunnels, intake and discharge, for condenser system, when not a 
part of a structure.
    21. Water screens and motors.

                       314   Turbogenerator Units

    This account shall include the cost installed of main turbine-driven 
units and accessory equipment used in generating electricity by steam.

                                  Items

    1. Air leaning and cooling apparatus, including blowers, drive 
equipment, air ducts not a part of building, louvers, pumps, and hoods.
    2. Circulating pumps, including connections between condensers and 
intake and discharge tunnels.
    3. Condensers, including condensate pumps, air and vacuum pumps, 
ejectors, unloading

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valves and vacuum breakers, expansion devices, and screens.
    4. Generator hydrogen, gas piping, and detrainment equipment.
    5. Cooling system, including towers, pumps, tanks, and piping.
    6. Cranes and hoists, including items wholly identified with items 
listed herein.
    7. Excitation system, when identified with main generating units.
    8. Fire-extinguishing systems.
    9. Foundations and settings, especially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    10. Governors.
    11. Lighting systems.
    12. Lubricating systems, including gauges, filters, water 
separators, tanks, pumps, piping, and motors.
    13. Mechanical meters, including gauges, recording instruments, 
sampling and testing equipment.
    14. Piping-main exhaust, including connections between 
turbogenerator and condenser and between condenser and hotwell.
    15. Piping-main steam, including connections from main throttle 
valve to turbine inlet.
    16. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to 
apparatus listed herein.
    17. Pressure oil systems, including accumulators, pumps, and piping 
motors.
    18. Steelwork, specially constructed for apparatus listed herein.
    19. Throttle and inlet valve.
    20. Tunnels, intake and discharge, for condenser system, when not a 
part of structure, and water screens.
    21. Turbogenerators-main, including turbine and generator, field 
rheostats and electric connections for self-excited units.
    22. Water screens and motors.
    23. Moisture separator for turbine steam.
    24. Turbine lubricating oil (initial charge).

                   315   Accessory Electric Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of auxiliary 
generating apparatus, conversion equipment, and equipment used primarily 
in connection with the control and switching of electric energy produced 
by steam power, and the protection of electric circuits and equipment, 
except electric motors used to drive equipment included in other 
accounts. Such motors shall be included in the account in which the 
equipment with which they are associated is included.

                                  Items

    1. Auxiliary generators, including boards, compartments, switching 
equipment, control equipment, and connections to auxiliary power bus.
    2. Excitation system, including motor, turbine and dual-drive 
exciter sets and rheostats, storage batteries and charging equipment, 
circuit breakers, panels and accessories, knife switches and 
accessories, surge arresters, instrument shunts, conductors and conduit, 
special supports for conduit, generator field and exciter switch panels, 
exciter bus tie panels, generator and exciter rheostats and special 
housing and protective screens.
    3. Generator main connections, including oil circuit breakers and 
accessories, disconnecting switches and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, current transformers, potential transformers, 
protective relays, isolated panels and equipment, conductors and 
conduit, special supports for generator main leads, grounding switch, 
and special housings and protective screens.
    4. Station buses including main, auxiliary, transfer, synchronizing 
and fault ground buses, including oil circuit breakers and accessories, 
disconnecting switches and accessories, operating mechanisms and 
interlocks, reactors and accessories, voltage regulators and 
accessories, compensators, resistors, starting transformers, current 
transformers, potential transformers, protective relays, storage 
batteries and charging equipment, isolated panels and equipment, 
conductors and conduit, special supports, special housings, concrete 
pads, general station grounding system, special fire-extinguishing 
system, and test equipment.
    5. Station control system, including station switchboards with panel 
wiring, panels with instruments and control equipment only, panels with 
switching equipment mounted or mechanically connected, truck-type boards 
complete, cubicles, station supervisory control boards, generator and 
exciter signal stands, temperature recording devices, frequency-control 
equipment, master clocks, watt-hour meters and synchronoscope in the 
turbine room, station totalizing wattmeter, boiler-room load indicator 
equipment, storage batteries, panels and charging sets, instrument 
transformers for supervisory metering, conductors and conduit, special 
supports for conduit, switchboards, batteries, special housing for 
batteries, protective screens, and doors.
    Note A: Do not include in this account transformers and other 
equipment used for changing the voltage or frequency of electricity for 
the purposes of transmission or distribution.
    Note B: When any item of equipment listed herein is used wholly to 
furnish power to equipment included in another account, its cost shall 
be included in such other account.

                316   Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of miscellaneous 
equipment in and about the steam generating plant devoted to

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general station use, and which is not properly includible in any of the 
foregoing steam-power production accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Compressed air and vacuum cleaning systems, including tanks, 
compressors, exhausters, air filters, and piping.
    2. Cranes and hoisting equipment, including cranes, cars, crane 
rails, monorails, and hoists with electric and mechanical connections.
    3. Fire-extinguishing equipment for general station use.
    4. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    5. Locomotive cranes not includible elsewhere.
    6. Locomotives not includible elsewhere.
    7. Marine equipment, including boats and barges.
    8. Miscellaneous belts, pulleys, and countershafts.
    9. Miscellaneous equipment, including atmospheric and weather 
indicating devices, intrasite communication equipment, laboratory 
equipment, signal systems, callophones, emergency whistles and sirens, 
fire alarms, insect-control equipment, and other similar equipment.
    10. Railway cars not includible elsewhere.
    11. Refrigerating systems, including compressors, pumps, and cooling 
coils.
    12. Station maintenance equipment, including lathes, shapers, 
planers, drill presses, hydraulic presses, and grinders with motors, 
shafting, hangers, and pulleys.
    13. Ventilating equipment, including items wholly identified with 
apparatus listed herein.
    Note: When any item of equipment listed herein is wholly used in 
connection with equipment included in another account, its cost shall be 
included in such other account.

                           Nuclear Production

                       320   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with nuclear power generation. (See Sec. 1767.16(g).)

                    321   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used and useful in connection with nuclear power 
generation. (See Sec. 1767.16 (h).)
    Note: Include vapor containers and nuclear production roads and 
railroads in this account.

                      322   Reactor Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the installed cost of reactors, reactor 
fuel handling and storage equipment, pressurizing equipment, coolant 
charging equipment, purification and discharging equipment, radioactive 
waste treatment and disposal equipment, boilers, steam and feed water 
piping, reactor and boiler apparatus and accessories and other reactor 
plant equipment used in the production of steam to be used primarily for 
generating electricity, including auxiliary superheat boilers and 
associated equipment in systems which change temperatures or pressure of 
steam from the reactor system.

                                  Items

    1. Auxiliary superheat boilers and associated fuel storage handling 
preparation and burning equipment. (See Account 312, Boiler Plant 
Equipment, for items, but exclude water supply, water flow lines, and 
steam lines, as well as other equipment not strictly within the 
superheat function.)
    2. Boiler feed system, including feed water heaters, evaporator 
condensers, heater drain pumps, heater drainers, deaerators, and vent 
condensers, boiler feed pumps, surge tanks, feed water regulators, feed 
water measuring equipment, and all associated drivers.
    3. Boilers and heat exchangers.
    4. Instruments and devices, including all measuring, indicating, and 
recording equipment for reactor and boiler plant service together with 
mountings and supports.
    5. Lighting systems.
    6. Moderators, such as heavy water, and graphite, initial charge.
    7. Reactor coolant; primary and secondary systems, initial charge.
    8. Radioactive waste treatment and disposal equipment, including 
tanks, ion exchangers, incinerators, condensers, chimneys, and diluting 
fans and pumps.
    9. Foundations and settings, especially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    10. Reactor including shielding, control rods and mechanisms.
    11. Reactor fuel handling equipment, including manipulating and 
extraction tools, underwater viewing equipment, seal cutting and welding 
equipment, fuel transfer equipment, and fuel disassembly machinery.
    12. Reactor fuel element failure detection system.
    13. Reactor emergency poison container and injection system.
    14. Reactor pressuring and pressure relief equipment, including 
pressurizing tanks and immersion heaters.
    15. Reactor coolant or moderator circulation charging, purification, 
and discharging equipment, including tanks, pumps, heat exchangers, 
demineralizers, and storage.
    16. Station piping, including pipes, valves, fittings, separators, 
traps, desuperheaters, hangers, excavation, and covering for station 
piping system, including all-reactor coolant,

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steam, condensate, boiler feed and water supply piping, but not 
condensing water, plumbing, building heating, oil, gas, or air piping.
    17. Ventilating equipment.
    18. Water purification equipment, including softeners, 
demineralizers and accessories, evaporators and accessories, heat 
exchangers, filters, tanks for filtered or softened water, pumps, and 
motors.
    19. Water supply systems, including pumps, motors, strainers, raw-
water storage tanks, boiler wash pumps, intake and discharge pipes and 
tunnels not a part of a building.
    20. Reactor plant cranes and hoists, and associated drives.
    Note: When the system for supplying boiler or condenser water is 
elaborate, as when it includes a dam, reservoir, canal, pipe lines, or 
cooling ponds, the cost of such special facilities shall be charged to a 
subdivision of Account 321, Structures and Improvements.

                       323   Turbogenerator Units

    This account shall include the cost installed of main turbine-driven 
units and accessory equipment used in generating electricity by steam.

                                  Items

    1. Air cleaning and cooling apparatus, including blowers, drive 
equipment, air ducts, not a part of building, louvers, pumps, and hoods.
    2. Circulating pumps, including connections between condensers, and 
intake and discharge tunnels.
    3. Condensers, including condensate pumps, air and vacuum pumps, 
ejectors, unloading valves and vacuum breakers, expansion devices, and 
screens.
    4. Generator hydrogen gas piping system and hydrogen detrainment 
equipment, and bulk hydrogen gas storage equipment.
    5. Cooling system, including towers, pumps, tanks, and piping.
    6. Cranes and hoists, including items wholly identified with items 
listed herein.
    7. Excitation system, when identified with main generating units.
    8. Fire extinguishing systems.
    9. Foundations and settings, especially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    10. Governors.
    11. Lighting systems.
    12. Lubricating systems, including gauges, filters, water 
separators, tanks, pumps, piping, and motors.
    13. Mechanical meters, including gauges, recording instruments, 
sampling and testing equipment.
    14. Piping-main steam, including connections between turbogenerator 
and condenser and between condenser and hotwell.
    15. Piping-main steam, including connections from main throttle 
valve to turbine inlet.
    16. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to 
apparatus listed herein.
    17. Pressure oil systems, including accumulators, pumps, piping, and 
motors.
    18. Steelwork, specially constructed for apparatus listed herein.
    19. Throttle and inlet valve.
    20. Tunnels, intake and discharge, for condenser system, when not a 
part of structure, and water screens.
    21. Turbogenerators-main, including turbine and generator, field 
rheostats and electric connections for self-excited units.
    22. Water screens and motors.
    23. Moisture separators for turbine steam.
    24. Turbine lubricating oil, initial charge.

                   324   Accessory Electric Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of auxiliary 
generating apparatus, conversion equipment, and equipment used primarily 
in connection with the control and switching of electric energy produced 
by nuclear power, and the protection of electric circuits and equipment, 
except electric motors used to drive equipment included in other 
accounts. Such motors shall be included in the account in which the 
equipment with which they are associated is included.
    Note: Do not include in this account transformers and other 
equipment used for changing the voltage or frequency of electric energy 
for the purpose of transmission or distribution.

                                  Items

    1. Auxiliary generators, including boards, compartments, switching 
equipment, control equipment, and connections to auxiliary power bus.
    2. Excitation system, including motor, turbine and dual-drive 
exciter sets and rheostats, storage batteries, and charging equipment, 
circuit breakers, panels and accessories, knife switches and 
accessories, surge arresters, instrument shunts, conductors and conduit, 
special supports for conduit, generator field and exciter switch panels, 
exciter bus tie panels, generator and exciter rheostats and special 
housing and protective screens.
    3. Generator main connections, including oil circuit breakers and 
accessories, disconnecting switches and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, current transformers, potential transformers, 
protective relays, isolated panels and equipment, conductors and 
conduit, special supports for generator main leads, grounding switch, 
special housings and protective screens.
    4. Station buses, including main, auxiliary, transfer, synchronizing 
and fault ground

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buses, including oil circuit breakers and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, reactors and accessories, voltage regulators 
and accessories, compensators, resistors, starting transformers, current 
transformers, potential transformers, protective relays, storage 
batteries and charging equipment, isolated panels and equipment, 
conductors and conduit, special supports, special housings, concrete 
pads, general station grounding system, fire-extinguishing system, and 
test equipment.
    5. Station control system, including station switchboards with panel 
wiring, panels with instruments and control equipment only, panels with 
switching equipment mounted or mechanically connected, truck-type boards 
complete, cubicles, station supervisory control boards, generator and 
exciter signal stands, temperature recording devices, frequency-control 
equipment, master clocks, watt-hour meters and synchronoscope in the 
turbine room, station totalizing wattmeter, boiler-room load indicator 
equipment, storage batteries, panels and charging sets, instrument 
transformers for supervisory metering, conductors and conduit, special 
supports for conduit, switchboards, batteries, special housing for 
batteries, protective screens, and doors.
    Note: When any item of equipment listed herein is used wholly to 
furnish power to equipment included in another account, its cost shall 
be included in such other account.

                325   Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of miscellaneous 
equipment in and about the nuclear generating plant devoted to general 
station use, which is not properly includible in any of the foregoing 
nuclear-power production accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Compressed air and vacuum cleaning systems, including tanks, 
compressors, exhausters, air filters, and piping.
    2. Cranes and hoisting equipment, including cranes, cars, crane 
rails, monorails, and hoists with electric and mechanical connections.
    3. Fire-extinguishing equipment for general station and site use.
    4. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    5. Locomotive cranes not includible elsewhere.
    6. Locomotives not included elsewhere.
    7. Marine equipment, including boats and barges.
    8. Miscellaneous belts, pulleys, and countershafts.
    9. Miscellaneous equipment, including atmospheric and weather 
recording devices, intrasite communication equipment, laboratory 
equipment, signal systems, callophones, emergency whistles and sirens, 
fire alarms, insect-control equipment, and other similar equipment.
    10. Railway cars or special shipping containers not includible 
elsewhere.
    11. Refrigerating systems, including compressors, pumps, and cooling 
coils.
    12. Station maintenance equipment, including lathes, shapers, 
planers, drill presses, hydraulic presses, and grinders with motors, 
shafting, hangers, and pulleys.
    13. Ventilating equipment, including items wholly identified with 
apparatus listed herein.
    14. Station and area radiation monitoring equipment.
    Note: When any item of equipment listed herein is wholly used in 
connection with equipment included in another account, its cost shall be 
included in such other account.

                          Hydraulic Production

                       330   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with hydraulic power generation. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).) It 
shall also include the cost of land and land rights used in connection 
with (1) the conservation of fish and wildlife, and (2) recreation. 
Separate subaccounts shall be maintained for each of the above.

                    331   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used in connection with hydraulic power generation. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).) It shall also include the cost, in place, of 
structures and improvements used in connection with (1) the conservation 
of fish and wildlife, and (2) recreation. Separate subaccounts shall be 
maintained for each of the above.

                  332   Reservoirs, Dams, and Waterways

    This account shall include the cost in place of facilities used for 
impounding, collecting, storage, diversion, regulation, and delivery of 
water used primarily for generating electricity. It shall also include 
the cost in place of facilities used in connection with (1) the 
conservation of fish and wildlife, and (2) recreation. Separate 
subaccounts shall be maintained for each of the above. (See Sec. 1767.16 
(h)(3).)

                                  Items

    1. Bridges and culverts, when not a part of roads or railroads.
    2. Clearing and preparing land.
    3. Dams, including wasteways, spillways, flash boards, spillway 
gates with operating and control mechanisms, tunnels, gate houses, and 
fish ladders.
    4. Dikes and embankments.

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    5. Electric system, including conductors, control system, 
transformers, and lighting fixtures.
    6. Excavation, including shoring, bracing, bridging, refill, and 
disposal of excess excavated material.
    7. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    8. Intakes, including trash racks, rack cleaners, control gates and 
valves with operating mechanisms, and intake house when not a part of 
station structure.
    9. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to 
structures listed herein.
    10. Power line wholly identified with items included herein.
    11. Retaining walls.
    12. Water conductors and accessories, including canals, tunnels, 
flumes, penstocks, pipe conductors, forebays, tailraces, navigation 
locks and operating mechanisms, water-hammer and surge tanks, and 
supporting trestles and structures.
    13. Water storage reservoirs, including dams, flashboards, spillway 
gates and operating mechanisms, inlet and outlet tunnels, regulating 
valves and valve towers, silt and mud sluicing tunnels with valve or 
gate towers, and all other structures wholly identified with any of the 
foregoing items.

               333   Water Wheels, Turbines and Generators

    This account shall include the cost installed of water wheels and 
hydraulic turbines (from connection with penstock or flume to tailrace) 
and generators driven thereby devoted to the production of electricity 
by water power or for the production of power for industrial or other 
purposes, if the equipment used for such purposes is a part of the 
hydraulic power plant works.

                                  Items

    1. Exciter water wheels and turbines, including runners, gates, 
governors, pressure regulators, oil pumps, operating mechanisms, scroll 
cases, draft tubes, and draft-tube supports.
    2. Fire-extinguishing equipment.
    3. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    4. Generator cooling system, including air cooling and washing 
apparatus, air fans and accessories, and air ducts.
    5. Generators-main, a.c. or d.c., including field rheostats and 
connections for self-excited units and excitation system when identified 
with the generating unit.
    6. Lighting systems.
    7. Lubricating systems, including gauges, filters, tanks, pumps, and 
piping.
    8. Main penstock valves and appurtenances, including main valves, 
control equipment, bypass valves and fittings, and other accessories.
    9. Main turbines and water wheels, including runners, gates, 
governors, pressure regulators, oil pumps, operating mechanisms, scroll 
cases, draft tubes, and draft-tube supports.
    10. Mechanical meters and recording instruments.
    11. Miscellaneous water-wheel equipment, including gauges, 
thermometers, meters, and other instruments.
    12. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to 
apparatus listed herein.
    13. Scroll case filling and drain system, including gates, pipe, 
valves, and fittings.
    14. Water-actuated pressure-regulator system, including tanks and 
housings, pipes, valves, fittings and insulators, piers and anchorage, 
and excavation and backfill.

                   334   Accessory Electric Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of auxiliary 
generating apparatus, conversion equipment, and equipment used primarily 
in connection with the control and switching of electric energy produced 
by hydraulic power and the protection of electric circuits and 
equipment, except electric motors used to drive equipment included in 
other accounts, such motors being included in the account in which the 
equipment with which they are associated is included.

                                  Items

    1. Auxiliary generators, including boards, compartments, switching 
equipment, control equipment, and connections to auxiliary power bus.
    2. Excitation system, including motor, turbine, and dual-drive 
exciter sets and rheostats, storage batteries and charging equipment, 
circuit breakers, panels and accessories, knife switches and 
accessories, surge arresters, instrument shunts, conductors and conduit, 
special supports for conduit, generator field and exciter switch panels, 
exciter bus tie panels, generator and exciter rheostats and special 
housings and protective screens.
    3. Generator main connections, including oil circuit breakers and 
accessories, disconnecting switches and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, current transformers, potential transformers, 
protective relays, isolated panels and equipment, conductors and 
conduit, special supports for generator main leads, grounding switch, 
and special housings and protective screens.
    4. Station buses, including main, auxiliary, transfer, 
synchronizing, and fault ground buses, including oil circuit breakers 
and accessories, disconnecting switches and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, reactors and accessories, voltage regulators 
and accessories, compensators, resistors

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starting transformers, current transformers, potential transformers, 
protective relays, storage batteries, and charging equipment, isolated 
panels and equipment, conductors and conduit, special supports, special 
fire-extinguishing system, and test equipment.
    5. Station control system, including station switchboards with panel 
wiring, panels with instruments and control equipment only, panels with 
switching equipment mounted for mechanically connected, truck-type 
boards complete, cubicles, station supervisory control devices, 
frequency control equipment, master clocks, watt-hour meter, station 
totalizing watt-meter, storage batteries, panels and charging sets, 
instrument transformers for supervisory metering, conductors and 
conduit, special supports for conduit, switchboards, batteries, special 
housings for batteries, protective screens, and doors.
    Note A: Do not include in this account transformers and other 
equipment used for changing the voltage or frequency of electricity for 
the purpose of transmission or distribution.
    Note B: When any item of equipment listed herein is used wholly to 
furnish power to equipment, it shall be included in such equipment 
account.

                335   Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of miscellaneous 
equipment in and about the hydroelectric generating plant which is 
devoted to general station use and is not properly includible in other 
hydraulic production accounts. It shall also include the cost of 
equipment used in connection with (1) the conservation of fish and 
wildlife, and (2) recreation. Separate subaccounts shall be maintained 
for each of the above.

                                  Items

    1. Compressed air and vacuum cleaning systems, including tanks, 
compressors, exhausters, air filters, and piping.
    2. Cranes and hoisting equipment, including cranes, cars, crane 
rails, monorails, and hoists with electric and mechanical connections.
    3. Fire-extinguishing equipment for general station use.
    4. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    5. Locomotive cranes not includible elsewhere.
    6. Locomotives not includible elsewhere.
    7. Marine equipment, including boats and barges.
    8. Miscellaneous belts, pulleys, and countershafts.
    9. Miscellaneous equipment, including atmospheric and weather 
indicating devices. Intrasite communication equipment, laboratory 
equipment, insect control equipment, signal systems, callophones, 
emergency whistles and sirens, fire alarms, and other similar equipment.
    10. Railway cars, not includible elsewhere.
    11. Refrigerating system, including compressors, pumps, and cooling 
coils.
    12. Station maintenance equipment, including lathes, shapers, 
planers, drill presses, hydraulic presses, and grinders with motors, 
shafting, hangers, and pulleys.
    13. Ventilating equipment, including items wholly identified with 
apparatus listed herein.
    Note: When any item of equipment, listed herein, is used wholly in 
connection with equipment included in another account, its cost shall be 
included in such other account.

                   336   Roads, Railroads, and Bridges

    This account shall include the cost of roads, railroads, trails, 
bridges, and trestles used primarily as production facilities. It also 
includes those roads necessary to connect the plant with highway 
transportation systems, except when such roads are dedicated to public 
use and maintained by public authorities.

                                  Items

    1. Bridges, including foundations, piers, girders, trusses, and 
flooring.
    2. Clearing land.
    3. Railroads, including grading, ballast, ties, rails, culverts, and 
hoists.
    4. Roads, including grading, surfacing, and culverts.
    5. Structures, constructed and maintained in connection with items 
listed herein.
    6. Trails, including grading, surfacing, and culverts.
    7. Trestles, including foundations, piers, girders, trusses, and 
flooring.
    Note A: Roads intended primarily for connecting employees' houses 
with the power plant, and roads used primarily in connection with fish 
and wildlife, and recreation activities, shall not be included herein 
but in Account 331, Structures and Improvements.
    Note B: The cost of temporary roads and bridges necessary during the 
period of construction but abandoned or dedicated to public use upon 
completion of the plant, shall not be included herein but shall be 
charged to the accounts appropriate for the construction.

                            Other Production

                       340   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with other power generation. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).)

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                    341   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost in place of structures and 
improvements used in connection with other power generation. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).)

             342   Fuel Holders, Producers, and Accessories

    This account shall include the cost installed of fuel handling and 
storage equipment used between the point of fuel delivery to the station 
and the intake pipe through which fuel is directly drawn to the engine, 
also the cost of gas producers and accessories devoted to the production 
of gas for use in prime movers driving main electric generators.

                                  Items

    1. Blower and fans.
    2. Boilers and pumps.
    3. Economizers.
    4. Exhauster outfits.
    5. Flues and piping.
    6. Pipe system.
    7. Producers.
    8. Regenerators.
    9. Scrubbers.
    10. Steam injectors.
    11. Tanks for storage of oil and gasoline.
    12. Vaporizers.

                           343   Prime Movers

    This account shall include the cost installed of Diesel or other 
prime movers devoted to the generation of electric energy, together with 
their auxiliaries.

                                  Items

    1. Air-filtering system.
    2. Belting, shafting, pulleys, and reduction gearing.
    3. Cooling system, including towers, pumps, tanks, and piping.
    4. Cranes and hoists, including items wholly identified with 
apparatus listed herein.
    5. Engines, Diesel, gasoline, gas, or other internal combustion.
    6. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    7. Governors.
    8. Ignition system.
    9. Inlet valve.
    10. Lighting systems.
    11. Lubricating systems, including filters, tanks, pumps, and 
piping.
    12. Mechanical meters, including gauges, recording instruments, 
sampling, and testing equipment.
    13. Mufflers.
    14. Piping.
    15. Starting systems, compressed air, or other, including 
compressors and drives, tanks, piping, motors, boards and connections, 
and storage tanks.
    16. Steelwork, specially constructed for apparatus listed herein.
    17. Waste heat boilers and antifluctuators.

                            344   Generators

    This account shall include the cost installed of Diesel or other 
power driven main generators.

                                  Items

    1. Cranes and hoists, including items wholly identified with such 
apparatus.
    2. Fire-extinguishing equipment.
    3. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    4. Generator cooling system, including air cooling and washing 
apparatus, air fans and accessories, and air ducts.
    5. Generators-main, a.c. or d.c., including field rheostats and 
connections for self-excited units and excitation system when identified 
with the generating unit.
    6. Lighting systems.
    7. Lubricating system, including tanks, filters, strainers, pumps, 
piping, and coolers.
    8. Mechanical meters and recording instruments.
    9. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to apparatus 
listed herein.
    Note: If prime movers and generators are so integrated that it is 
not practical to classify them separately, the entire unit may be 
included in Account 344, Generators.

                   345   Accessory Electric Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of auxiliary 
generating apparatus, conversion equipment, and equipment used primarily 
in connection with the control and switching of electric energy produced 
in other power generating stations, and the protection of electric 
circuits and equipment, except electric motors used to drive equipment 
included in other accounts. Such motors shall be included in the account 
in which the equipment with which it is associated is included.

                                  Items

    1. Auxiliary generators, including boards, compartments, switching 
equipment, control equipment, and connections to auxiliary power bus.
    2. Excitation system, including motor, turbine and dual-drive 
exciter sets and rheostats, storage batteries and charging equipment, 
circuit breakers, panels and accessories, knife switches and 
accessories, surge arresters, instrument shunts, conductors and conduit, 
special supports for conduit, generator field and exciter switch panels, 
exciter bus tie panels, generator and exciter rheostats and special 
housings and protective screens.

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    3. Generator main connections, including oil circuit breakers and 
accessories, disconnecting switches and accessories, operating 
mechanisms and interlocks, current transformers, potential transformers, 
protective relays, isolated panels and equipment, conductors and 
conduit, special supports for generator main leads, grounding switch, 
and special housing and protective screens.
    4. Station control system, including station switchboards with panel 
wiring, panels with instruments and control equipment only, panels with 
switching equipment mounted or mechanically connected, trunk-type boards 
complete, cubicles, station supervisory control boards, generator and 
exciter signal stands, temperature-recording devices, frequency control 
equipment, master clocks, watt-hour meter, station totalizing wattmeter, 
storage batteries, panels and charging sets, instrument transformers for 
supervisory metering, conductors and conduit, special supports for 
conduit, switchboards, batteries, special housing for batteries, 
protective screens, and doors.
    5. Station buses, including main, auxiliary, transfer, synchronizing 
and fault ground buses, including oil circuit breakers and accessories, 
disconnecting switches and accessories, operating mechanisms and 
interlocks, reactors and accessories, voltage regulators and 
accessories, compensators, resistors, starting transformers, current 
transformers, potential transformers, protective relays, storage 
batteries and charging equipment, isolated panels and equipment, 
conductors and conduit, special supports, special housings, concrete 
pads, general station ground system, special fire-extinguishing system, 
and test equipment.
    Note A: Do not include in this account transformers and other 
equipment used for changing the voltage or frequency of electric energy 
for the purpose of transmission or distribution.
    Note B: When any item of equipment listed herein is used wholly to 
furnish power to equipment included in another account, its cost shall 
be included in such other account.

                346   Miscellaneous Power Plant Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of miscellaneous 
equipment in and about the other power generating plant, devoted to 
general station use, and not properly includible in any of the foregoing 
other power production accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Compressed air and vacuum cleaning systems, including tanks, 
compressors, exhausters, air filters, and piping.
    2. Cranes and hoisting equipment, including cranes, cars, crane 
rails, monorails, and hoists with electric and mechanical connections.
    3. Fire-extinguishing equipment for general station use.
    4. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    5. Miscellaneous equipment, including atmospheric and weather 
indicating devices, intrasite communication equipment, laboratory 
equipment, signal systems, callophones, emergency whistles and sirens, 
fire alarms, and other similar equipment.
    6. Miscellaneous belts, pulleys, and countershafts.
    7. Refrigerating systems including compressors, pumps, and cooling 
coils.
    8. Station maintenance equipment, including lathes, shapers, 
planters, drill presses, hydraulic presses, and grinders with motors, 
shafting, hangers, or pulleys.
    9. Ventilating equipment, including items wholly identified with 
apparatus listed herein.
    Note: When any item of equipment, listed herein is used wholly in 
connection with equipment included in another account, its cost shall be 
included in such other account.

                           Transmission Plant

                       350   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with transmission operations. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).)

                             351 [Reserved]

                    352   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used in connection with transmission operations. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).)

                         353   Station Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of transforming, 
conversion, and switching equipment used for the purpose of changing the 
characteristics of electricity in connection with its transmission or 
for controlling transmission circuits.

                                  Items

    1. Bus compartments, concrete, brick, and sectional steel, including 
items permanently attached thereto.
    2. Conduit, including concrete and iron duct runs not a part of a 
building.
    3. Control equipment, including batteries, battery charging 
equipment, transformers, remote relay boards, and connections.
    4. Conversion equipment, including transformers, indoor and outdoor, 
frequency changers, motor generator sets, rectifiers, synchronous 
converters, motors, cooling equipment, and associated connections.
    5. Fences.

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    6. Fixed and synchronous condensers, including transformers, 
switching equipment, blowers, motors and connections.
    7. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    8. General station equipment, including air compressors, motors, 
hoists, cranes, test equipment, and ventilating equipment.
    9. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to apparatus 
listed herein.
    10. Primary and secondary voltage connections, including bus runs 
and supports, insulators, potheads, lightning arresters, cable and wire 
runs from and to outdoor connections or to manholes and the associated 
regulators, reactors, resistors, surge arresters, and accessory 
equipment.
    11. Switchboards, including meters, relays, and control wiring.
    12. Switching equipment, indoor and outdoor, including oil circuit 
breakers and operating mechanisms, truck switches, and disconnect 
switches.
    13. Tools and appliances.

                        354   Towers and Fixtures

    This account shall include the cost installed of towers and 
appurtenant fixtures used for supporting overhead transmission 
conductors.

                                  Items

    1. Anchors, guys, and braces.
    2. Brackets.
    3. Crossarms, including braces.
    4. Excavation, backfill, and disposal of excess excavated material.
    5. Foundations.
    6. Guards.
    7. Insulator pins and suspension bolts.
    8. Ladder and steps.
    9. Railings.
    10. Towers.

                        355   Poles and Fixtures

    This account shall include the cost installed of transmission line 
poles, wood, steel, concrete, or other material, together with 
appurtenant fixtures used for supporting overhead transmission 
conductors.

                                  Items

    1. Anchors, head arm and other guys, including guy guards, guy 
clamps, strain insulators, and pole plates.
    2. Brackets.
    3. Crossarms and braces.
    4. Excavation and backfill, including disposal of excess excavated 
material.
    5. Extension arms.
    6. Gaining, roofing, stenciling, and tagging.
    7. Insulator pins and suspension belts.
    8. Paving.
    9. Pole steps.
    10. Poles, wood, steel, concrete, or other material.
    11. Racks complete with insulators.
    12. Reinforcing and stubbing.
    13. Settings.
    14. Shaving and painting.

                  356   Overhead Conductors and Devices

    This account shall include the cost installed of overhead conductors 
and devices used for transmission purposes.

                                  Items

    1. Circuit breakers.
    2. Conductors, including insulated and bare wires and cables.
    3. Ground wires and ground clamps.
    4. Insulators, including pin, suspension, and other types.
    5. Lightning arresters.
    6. Switches.
    7. Other line devices.

                        357   Underground Conduit

    This account shall include the cost installed of underground conduit 
and tunnels used for housing transmission cables or wires. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (n).)

                                  Items

    1. Conduit, concrete, brick or tile, including iron pipe, fiber 
pipe, Murray duct, and standpipe on pole or tower.
    2. Excavation, including shoring, bracing, bridging, backfill, and 
disposal of excess excavated material.
    3. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    4. Lighting systems.
    5. Manholes, concrete or brick, including iron or steel, frames and 
covers, hatchways, gratings, ladders, cable racks and hangers, 
permanently attached to manholes.
    6. Municipal inspection.
    7. Pavement disturbed, including cutting and replacing pavement, 
pavement base and sidewalks.
    8. Permits.
    9. Protection of street openings.
    10. Removal and relocation of subsurface obstructions.
    11. Sewer connections, including drains, traps, tide valves, and 
check valves.
    12. Sumps, including pumps.
    13. Ventilating equipment.

                358   Underground Conductors and Devices

    This account shall include the cost installed of underground 
conductors and devices used for transmission purposes.

                                  Items

    1. Armored conductors, buried, including insulators, insulating 
materials, splices, potheads, and trenching.

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    2. Armored conductors, submarine, including insulators, insulating 
materials, splices in terminal chambers, and potheads.
    3. Cables in standpipe, including pothead and connection from 
terminal chamber of manhole to insulators on pole.
    4. Circuit breakers.
    5. Fireproofing, in connection with any items listed herein.
    6. Hollow-core oil-filled cable, including straight or stop joints, 
pressure tanks, auxiliary air tanks, feeding tanks, terminals, potheads 
and connections, and ventilating equipment.
    7. Lead and fabric covered conductors, including insulators, 
compound filled, oil filled, or vacuum splices, and potheads.
    8. Lightning arresters.
    9. Municipal inspection.
    10. Permits.
    11. Protection of street openings.
    12. Racking of cables.
    13. Switches.
    14. Other line devices.

                         359   Roads and Trails

    This account shall include the cost of roads, trails, and bridges 
used primarily as transmission facilities.

                                  Items

    1. Bridges, including foundation piers, girders, trusses, and 
flooring.
    2. Clearing land.
    3. Roads, including grading, surfacing, and culverts.
    4. Structures, constructed and maintained in connection with items 
included herein.
    5. Trails, including grading, surfacing, and culverts.
    Note: The cost of temporary roads, and bridges necessary during the 
period of construction but abandoned or dedicated to public use upon 
completion of the plant, shall be charged to the accounts appropriate 
for the construction.

                           Distribution Plant

                       360   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used in 
connection with distribution operations. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).)
    Note: Do not include the cost of permits to erect poles, or towers 
or to trim trees in this account. (See Account 364, Poles, Towers and 
Fixtures, and Account 365, Overhead Conductors and Devices.)

                    361   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used in connection with distribution operations. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).)

                         362   Station Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of station equipment, 
including transformer banks, which are used for the purpose of changing 
the characteristics of electricity in connection with its distribution.

                                  Items

    1. Bus compartments, concrete, brick and sectional steel, including 
items permanently attached thereto.
    2. Conduit, including concrete and iron duct runs not part of 
building.
    3. Control equipment, including batteries, battery charging 
equipment, transformers, remote relay boards, and connections.
    4. Conversion equipment, indoor and outdoor, frequency changers, 
motor generator sets, rectifiers, synchronous converters, motors, 
cooling equipment, and associated connections.
    5. Fences.
    6. Fixed and synchronous condensers, including transformers, 
switching equipment, blowers, motors, and connections.
    7. Foundations and settings, specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which provided.
    8. General station equipment, including air compressors, motors, 
hoists, cranes, test equipment, and ventilating equipment.
    9. Platforms, railings, steps, and gratings appurtenant to apparatus 
listed herein.
    10. Primary and secondary voltage connections, including bus runs 
and supports, insulators, potheads, lightning arresters, cable and wire 
runs from and to outdoor connections or to manholes and the associated 
regulators, reactors, resistors, surge arresters, and accessory 
equipment.
    11. Switchboards, including meters, relays, and control wiring.
    12. Switching equipment, indoor and outdoor, including oil circuit 
breakers and operating mechanisms, truck switches, disconnect switches.
    Note: The cost of rectifiers, series transformers, and other special 
station equipment devoted exclusively to street lighting service shall 
not be included in this account, but in Account 373, Street Lighting and 
Signal Systems.

    363   Storage Battery Equipmentis account shall include the cost 
installed of storage battery equipment used for the purpose of supplying 
             electricity to meet emergency or peak demands.

                                  Items

    1. Batteries, including elements, tanks, and tank insulators.
    2. Battery room connections, including cable or bus runs and 
connections.

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    3. Battery room flooring, when specially laid for supporting 
batteries.
    4. Charging equipment, including motor generator sets and other 
charging equipment and connections, and cable runs from generator or 
station bus to battery room connections.
    5. Miscellaneous equipment, including instruments, and water stills.
    6. Switching equipment, including endcell switches and connections, 
boards and panels, used exclusively for battery control, not part of 
general station switchboard.
    7. Ventilating equipment, including fans and motors, louvers, and 
ducts not part of building.
    Note: Storage batteries used for control and general station 
purposes shall not be included in this account but in the account 
appropriate for their use.

                    364   Poles, Towers and Fixtures

    This account shall include the cost installed of poles, towers, and 
appurtenant fixtures used for supporting overhead distribution 
conductors and service wires.

                                  Items

    1. Anchors, head arm, and other guys, including guy guards, guy 
clamps, strain insulators, and pole plates.
    2. Brackets.
    3. Crossarms and braces.
    4. Excavation and backfill, including disposal of excess excavated 
material.
    5. Extension arms.
    6. Foundations.
    7. Guards.
    8. Insulator pins and suspension bolts.
    9. Paving.
    10. Permits for construction.
    11. Pole steps and ladders.
    12. Poles, wood, steel, concrete, or other material.
    13. Racks complete with insulators.
    14. Railings.
    15. Reinforcing and stubbing.
    16. Settings.
    17. Shaving, painting, gaining, roofing, stenciling, and tagging.
    18. Towers.
    19. Transformer racks and platforms.

                  365   Overhead Conductors and Devices

    This account shall include the cost installed of overhead conductors 
and devices used for distribution purposes.

                                  Items

    1. Circuit breakers.
    2. Conductors, including insulated and bare wires and cables.
    3. Ground wires and clamps.
    4. Insulators, including pin, suspension, and other types, and tie 
wire or clamps.
    5. Lightning arresters.
    6. Railroad and highway crossing guards.
    7. Splices.
    8. Switches.
    9. Tree trimming, initial cost including the cost of permits 
therefor.
    10. Other line devices.
    11. Oil circuit reclosers (OCR).
    12. Sectionalizers.
    13. Labor costs for installation of OCRs and Sectionalizers, first 
only.
    Note: The cost of conductors used solely for street lighting or 
signal systems shall not be included in this account but in Account 373, 
Street Lighting and Signal Systems.

                        366   Underground Conduit

    This account shall include the cost installed of underground conduit 
and tunnels used for housing distribution cables or wires.

                                  Items

    1. Conduit, concrete, brick and tile, including iron pipe, fiber 
pipe, Murray duct, and standpipe on pole or tower.
    2. Excavation, including shoring, bracing, bridging, backfill, and 
disposal of excess excavated material.
    3. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the apparatus for which constructed.
    4. Lighting systems.
    5. Manholes, concrete or brick, including iron or steel frames and 
covers, hatchways, gratings, ladders, cable racks, and hangers 
permanently attached to manholes.
    6. Municipal inspection.
    7. Pavement disturbed, including cutting and replacing pavement, 
pavement base, and sidewalks.
    8. Permits.
    9. Protection of street openings.
    10. Removal and relocation of subsurface obstructions.
    11. Sewer connections, including drains, traps, tide valves, and 
check valves.
    12. Sumps, including pumps.
    13. Ventilating equipment.
    Note: The cost of underground conduit used solely for street 
lighting or signal systems shall be included in Account 373, Street 
Lighting and Signal Systems.

                367   Underground Conductors and Devices

    This account shall include the cost installed of underground 
conductors and devices used for distribution purposes.

                                  Items

    1. Armored conductors, buried, including insulators, insulating 
materials, splices, potheads, and trenching.
    2. Armored conductors, submarine, including insulators, insulating 
materials, splices in terminal chamber, and potheads.

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    3. Cables in standpipe, including pothead and connection from 
terminal chamber or manhole to insulators on pole.
    4. Circuit breakers.
    5. Fireproofing, in connection with any items listed herein.
    6. Hollow-core oil-filled cable, including straight or stop joints, 
pressure tanks, auxiliary air tanks, feeding tanks, terminals, potheads 
and connections.
    7. Lead and fabric covered conductors, including insulators, 
compound-filled, oil-filled or vacuum splices, and potheads.
    8. Lightning arresters.
    9. Municipal inspection.
    10. Permits.
    11. Protection of street openings.
    12. Racking of cables.
    13. Switches.
    14. Other line devices.
    Note: The cost of underground conductors and devices used solely for 
street lighting or signal systems shall be included in Account 373, 
Street Lighting and Signal Systems.

                         368   Line Transformers

    A. This account shall include the cost installed of overhead and 
underground distribution line transformers and pole-type and underground 
voltage regulators owned by the utility, for use in transforming 
electricity to the voltage at which it is to be used by the customer, 
whether actually in service or held in reserve.
    B. When a transformer is permanently retired from service, the 
original installed cost thereof shall be credited to this account.
    C. The records covering line transformers shall be so kept that the 
utility can furnish the number of transformers of various capacities in 
service and those in reserve, and the location and the use of each 
transfer.

                                  Items

    1. Installation, labor of (first installation only).
    2. Transformer cut-out boxes.
    3. Transformer lightning arresters.
    4. Transformers, line and network.
    5. Capacitors.
    6. Network protectors.
    7. Voltage regulators.
    Note: The cost of removing and resetting line transformers shall not 
be charged to this account but to Account 583, Overhead Line Expenses, 
or Account 584, Underground Line Expenses, as appropriate. The cost of 
line transformers used solely for street lighting or signal systems 
shall be included in Account 373, Street Lighting and Signal Systems.

                             369   Services

    This account shall include the cost installed of overhead and 
underground conductors leading from a point where wires leave the last 
pole of the overhead system or the distribution box or manhole, or the 
top of the pole of the distribution line, to the point of connection 
with the customer's outlet or wiring. Conduit used for underground 
service conductors shall be included herein.

                                  Items

    1. Brackets.
    2. Cables and wires.
    3. Conduit.
    4. Insulators.
    5. Municipal inspection.
    6. Overhead to underground, including conduit or standpipe and 
conductor from last splice on pole to connection with customer's wiring.
    7. Pavement disturbed, including cutting and replacing pavement, 
pavement base, and sidewalks.
    8. Permits.
    9. Protection of street openings.
    10. Service switch.
    11. Suspension wire.

                              370   Meters

    A. This account shall include the cost installed of meters or 
devices and appurtenances thereto, for use in measuring the electricity 
delivered to its users, whether actually in service or held in reserve.
    B. When a meter is permanently retired from service, the installed 
cost included herein shall be credited to this account.
    C. The records covering meters shall be so kept that the utility can 
furnish information as to the number of meters of various capacities in 
service and in reserve as well as the location of each meter owned.

                                  Items

    1. Alternate current, watt-hour meters.
    2. Current limiting devices.
    3. Demand indicators.
    4. Demand meters.
    5. Direct current watt-hour meters.
    6. Graphic demand meters.
    7. Installation, labor of (first installation only).
    8. Instrument transformers.
    9. Maximum demand meters.
    10. Meter badges and their attachments.
    11. Meter boards and boxes.
    12. Meter fittings, connections, and shelves (first set).
    13. Meter switches and cut-outs.
    14. Prepayment meters.
    15. Protective devices.
    16. Testing new meters.
    Note A: This account shall not include meters for recording output 
of a generating station, or substation meters. It includes only those 
meters used to record energy delivered to customers.

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    Note B: The cost of removing and resetting meters shall be charged 
to Account 586, Meter Expenses.

               371   Installations on Customers' Premises

    This account shall include the cost installed of equipment on the 
customer's side of a meter when the utility incurs such cost and when 
the utility retains title to and assumes full responsibility for 
maintenance and replacement of such property. This account shall not 
include leased equipment. (See Account 372, Leased Property on 
Customers' Premises.)

                                  Items

    1. Cable vaults.
    2. Commercial lamp equipment.
    3. Foundations and settings specially provided for equipment 
included herein.
    4. Frequency changer sets.
    5. Motor generator sets.
    6. Motors.
    7. Switchboard panels, high or low tension.
    8. Wire and cable connections to incoming cables.
    Note: Do not include in this account any costs incurred in 
connection with merchandising, jobbing, or contract work activities.

              372   Leased Property on Customers' Premises

    This account shall include the cost of electric motors, 
transformers, and other equipment on customers' premises (including 
municipal corporations), leased or loaned to customers, but not 
including property held for sale.
    Note A: The cost of setting and connecting such appliances or 
equipment on the premises of customers and the cost of resetting or 
removal shall not be charged to this account but to operating expenses, 
Account 587, Customer Installations Expenses.
    Note B: Do not include in this account any costs incurred in 
connection with merchandising, jobbing, or contract work activities.

                373   Street Lighting and Signal Systems

    This account shall include the cost installed of equipment used 
wholly for public street and highway lighting or traffic, fire alarm, 
police, and other signal systems.

                                  Items

    1. Armored conductors, buried or submarine, including insulators, 
insulating materials, splices, and trenching.
    2. Automatic control equipment.
    3. Conductors, overhead or underground, including lead or fabric 
covered, parkway cables, including splices, and insulators.
    4. Lamps, arc, incandescent, or other types, including glassware, 
suspension fixtures, and brackets.
    5. Municipal inspection.
    6. Ornamental lamp posts.
    7. Pavement disturbed, including cutting and replacing pavement, 
pavement base, and sidewalks.
    8. Permits.
    9. Posts and standards.
    10. Protection of street openings.
    11. Relays or time clocks.
    12. Series contactors.
    13. Switches.
    14. Transformers, pole or underground.

                              General Plant

                       389   Land and Land Rights

    This account shall include the cost of land and land rights used for 
utility purposes, the cost of which is not properly includible in other 
land and land rights accounts. (See Sec. 1767.16 (g).)

                    390   Structures and Improvements

    This account shall include the cost, in place, of structures and 
improvements used for utility purposes, the cost of which is not 
properly includible in other structures and improvements accounts. (See 
Sec. 1767.16 (h).)

                  391   Office Furniture and Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of office furniture and 
equipment owned by the utility and devoted to utility service, and not 
permanently attached to buildings, except the cost of such furniture and 
equipment which the utility elects to assign to other plant accounts on 
a functional basis.

                                  Items

    1. Bookcases and shelves.
    2. Desks, chairs, and desk equipment.
    3. Drafting-room equipment.
    4. Filing, storage, and other cabinets.
    5. Floor covering.
    6. Library and library equipment.
    7. Mechanical office equipment, such as accounting machines, and 
typewriters.
    8. Safes.
    9. Tables.

                     392   Transportation Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of transportation vehicles used 
for utility purposes.

                                  Items

    1. Airplanes.
    2. Automobiles.
    3. Bicycles.
    4. Electrical vehicles.
    5. Motor trucks.
    6. Motorcycles.
    7. Repair cars or trucks.
    8. Tractors and trailers.
    9. Other transportation vehicles.

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                         393   Stores Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of equipment used for the 
receiving, shipping, handling, and storage of materials and supplies.

                                  Items

    1. Chain falls.
    2. Counters.
    3. Cranes (portable).
    4. Elevating and stacking equipment (portable).
    5. Hoists.
    6. Lockers.
    7. Scales.
    8. Shelving.
    9. Storage bins.
    10. Trucks, hand and power driven.
    11. Wheelbarrows.

                 394   Tools, Shop and Garage Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of tools, implements, and 
equipment used in construction, repair work, general shops and garages 
and not specifically provided for or includible in other accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Air compressors.
    2. Anvils.
    3. Automobile repair shop equipment.
    4. Battery charging equipment.
    5. Belts, shafts and countershafts.
    6. Boilers.
    7. Cable pulling equipment.
    8. Concrete mixers.
    9. Drill presses.
    10. Derricks.
    11. Electric equipment.
    12. Engines.
    13. Forges.
    14. Furnaces.
    15. Foundations and settings specially constructed for and not 
expected to outlast the equipment for which provided.
    16. Gas producers.
    17. Gasoline pumps, oil pumps, and storage tanks.
    18. Greasing tools and equipment.
    19. Hoists.
    20. Ladders.
    21. Lathes.
    22. Machine tools.
    23. Motor-driven tools.
    24. Motors.
    25. Pipe threading and cutting tools.
    26. Pneumatic tools.
    27. Pumps.
    28. Riveters.
    29. Smithing equipment.
    30. Tool racks.
    31. Vises.
    32. Welding apparatus.
    33. Work benches.

                       395   Laboratory Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of laboratory 
equipment used for general laboratory purposes and not specifically 
provided for or includible in other departmental or functional plant 
accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Ammeters.
    2. Current batteries.
    3. Frequency changers.
    4. Galvanometers.
    5. Inductometers.
    6. Laboratory standard millivolt meters.
    7. Laboratory standard volt meters.
    8. Meter-testing equipment.
    9. Millivolt meters.
    10. Motor generator sets.
    11. Panels.
    12. Phantom loads.
    13. Portable graphic ammeters, voltmeters, and wattmeters.
    14. Portable loading devices.
    15. Potential batteries.
    16. Potentiometers.
    17. Rotating standards.
    18. Standard cell, reactance, resistor, and shunt.
    19. Switchboards.
    20. Synchronous timers.
    21. Testing panels.
    22. Testing resistors.
    23. Transformers.
    24. Voltmeters.
    25. Other testing, laboratory, or research equipment not provided 
for elsewhere.

                     396   Power Operated Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of power operated equipment used 
in construction or repair work exclusive of equipment includible in 
other accounts. Include, also, the tools and accessories acquired for 
use with such equipment and the vehicle on which such equipment is 
mounted.

                                  Items

    1. Air compressors, including driving unit and vehicle.
    2. Back filling machines.
    3. Boring machines.
    4. Bulldozers.
    5. Cranes and hoists.
    6. Diggers.
    7. Engines.
    8. Pile drivers.
    9. Pipe cleaning machines.
    10. Pipe coating or wrapping machines.
    11. Tractors-Crawler type.
    12. Trenchers.
    13. Other power operated equipment.
    Note: It is intended that this account include only such large units 
as are generally self-propelled or mounted on movable equipment.

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                      397   Communication Equipment

    This account shall include the cost installed of telephone, 
telegraph, and wireless equipment for general use in connection with 
utility operations.

                                  Items

    1. Antennae.
    2. Booths.
    3. Cables.
    4. Distributing boards.
    5. Extension cords.
    6. Gongs.
    7. Hand sets, manual and dial.
    8. Insulators.
    9. Intercommunicating sets.
    10. Loading coils.
    11. Operators' desks.
    12. Poles and fixtures used wholly for telephone or telegraph wire.
    13. Radio transmitting and receiving sets.
    14. Remote control equipment and lines.
    15. Sending keys.
    16. Storage batteries.
    17. Switchboards.
    18. Telautograph circuit connections.
    19. Telegraph receiving sets.
    20. Telephone and telegraph circuits.
    21. Testing instruments.
    22. Towers.
    23. Underground conduit used wholly for telephone or telegraph wires 
and cable wires.

                      398   Miscellaneous Equipment

    This account shall include the cost of equipment, and apparatus used 
in the utility operations, which is not includible in other accounts.

                                  Items

    1. Hospital and infirmary equipment.
    2. Kitchen equipment.
    3. Employees' recreation equipment.
    4. Radios.
    5. Restaurant equipment.
    6. Soda fountains.
    7. Operators' cottage furnishings.
    8. Other miscellaneous equipment.
    Note: Miscellaneous equipment of the nature indicated above wherever 
practicable, shall be included in the utility plant accounts on a 
functional basis.

                      399   Other Tangible Property

    This account shall include the cost of tangible utility plant not 
provided for elsewhere.