National Energy Board Cost Recovery Regulations

12 (1) On or before September 30 in every year, the Board shall determine for the immediately preceding fiscal year of the Board, on the basis of information provided by its management information systems, the percentage that each of

• (a) the time spent by officers and employees of the Board on activities directly related to the responsibilities of the Board in respect of oil, oil pipelines, oil products, natural gas liquids and liquefied petroleum gas,

• (b) the time spent by officers and employees of the Board on activities directly related to the responsibilities of the Board in respect of gas pipelines and natural gas, and

• (c) the time spent by officers and employees of the Board on activities directly related to the responsibilities of the Board in respect of electricity and international and interprovincial power lines

is to the total time spent by officers and employees of the Board during that immediately preceding fiscal year on activities related to the responsibilities of the Board under the Act or any other Act of Parliament in respect of which costs are attributed in accordance with section 6.

(2) For the purpose of subsection (1), the time spent by officers and employees of the Board on activities directly related to the administration of the Board and on activities indirectly related to the responsibilities of the Board referred to in paragraphs (1)(a), (b) and (c) shall be apportioned among each of the amounts of time referred to in those paragraphs, respectively, in the same proportion as each amount of time is to the total time spent by officers and employees of the Board on activities directly related to those responsibilities.