• zones associated with Enbridge Gas’s obligations under the FCPP; and (ii) dispose of 2019 balances for all FCPP-related deferral and variance accounts.5 The OEB generally found the proposals of Enbridge Gas reasonable, approving: (i) rate increases previously approved on an interim basis on a final basis effective April 1, 2020; and (ii) 2019 FCPP-related deferral and variance account balances and associated disposition unit rates.6 The Board also supported Enbridge Gas’s proposal to delay seeking OEB approval to dispose of 2020 balances in FCPP-related deferral and variance accounts by one year (to be filed as part of Enbridge Gas’s 2022 Federal Carbon Pricing Program application by September 2021) in order for Enbridge Gas to file final audited year-end 2020 balances in these accounts.7

• As part of its Decision and Order on Enbridge Gas’s 2020 Application, the OEB ordered that for First Nations on-reserve customers the Federal Carbon Charge remain interim and that Enbridge Gas track charges for these customers until such time that the OEB makes a determination regarding the constitutional applicability of FCPP-related charges to them (“Deferred Issues”). Further, in its Decision and Rate Order dealing with Enbridge Gas’s 2020 Application the OEB ordered that Enbridge Gas include in its rate schedules a reference to the interim nature of the Federal Carbon Charge for these customers.

Enbridge Gas filed an Updated 2020 Federal Carbon Pricing Program Application with the OEB to: (i) reflect actual December 31, 2019 balances in the Federal Carbon Pricing Program-related deferral and variance accounts; and (ii) discuss options for the approach to disposition of balances.

6 EB-2019-0247, OEB Decision and Order, August 13, 2020, p. 12. The OEB’s approval was subject to adjustment of interest calculations on 2019 FCPP-related deferral and variance account balances for Q3 2020 to reflect an amended OEB-prescribed rate of 0.57% and disposition of account balances in three monthly installments beginning October 1, 2020. Federal Carbon Charges and disposition of 2019 balances in the Customer Variance Accounts were approved on a final basis for all customers except First Nations on-reserve customers for which these charges and rates were approved on an interim basis, until the OEB’s determination of the Deferred Issues regarding the constitutional applicability of FCPP charges to these customers.

7 EB-2019-0247, OEB Decision and Order, August 13, 2020, p. 21.