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Northeast Ohio Public Energy ouncil Draft Natural Gas Plan of Operion and Governance for customers in those communities to join together and utilize their combined purchasing power to competitively acquire firm all-requirements retail natural gas supply. Communities undertaking development of this option are lrnown as "government aggregators." The law allows communities acting as government aggregators to jom together and combine their resources for development and 'unplementation of a Natural Gas Aggregation Program. The law contains several requirements for government aggregators. One general requirement is to develop a Plan of Operation and Governance for the Natural Gas Aggregation Program. The Natural Gas Plan is subject to review by citizens in communities undertaking government aggregation, and is also subject to approval and certification by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. The Natural Gas Plan describes the Natural Gas Aggregation Program to be utilized for participating customers in NOPEC communities. 1.2 Description of the Natural Gas Aggregation Program The Natural Gas Aggregation Program involves the acquisition of competitive - retail natural ,gas supply.. Distribution:-services (meteFing, billing, maintenance of the gas : transmission and distribution system) will continue as the function of the local . distribution{company. _• The local ;distribution company shall. also..be• the "provider of :last resort" for customers not participating in the Natural Gas Aggregation Program who have - no other competitive supplier. The NOPEC Natural Gas Aggregation Program has been ; undertaken .as _an "opt-out" ,prograrn: that requires authorization of communities and;rheir constituents °in a publi& process. ' AH-?eligible customers will- be included in the Natural --- Gas°A-ggregation Program-unlessythey, ahoose to "opt=out" as -descrihed.in section;,2:4:I. of this Natural Gas Plan. The Natural Gas Aggregation Program has been undertaken at two levels. At the local levei, communities wishing to be government aggregators have authorized the opt- out Natural Gas Aggregation Program in a public process as required by law and outlined below in section 1.3. At the regional level, communities wishing to proceed jointly with a Natural Gas Aggregation Program have formed NOPEC under Chapter 167 of the Ohio Revised Code, which the communities have authorized to perform as their agent for development and implementation of the Natural Gas Aggregation Program as outlined in sections 1.3 and 1.4. The operations of the Natural Gas Aggregation Program are described in section 2 of the Natural Gas Plan, and the governance of the program is described in section 3. 1.3 Steps Required by the Law The process of establishing government aggregarion involves a multi-step public process undertaken by the member communities or jointly through NOPEC on their behalf: ?. COL 281320.2 76 i 30/16064 4