Form ONRR-4109 Gas Processing Allowance Summary Report

U.S. Department of the Interior
Office of Natural Resources Revenue

1 Payor Name:
Address:
City:

For ONRR Use Only
State:                    Zip:
4 For Payor Use Only

2 Payor Code:
3 Amended Report?    ___Yes   ___No
5 Plant Name:
7 8
Lease Number

OMB Control Number 1012-0002
OMB Approval Expires 12/31/2018

Gas Processing Allowance Report
Form ONRR-4109

9

Agreement Number

10

Product 
Code

6 Reporting Period (mm/dd/ccyy):
11
12
Royalty Quantity

     to
Allowance Rate
Per Unit

13

Royalty Allowance 
Amount

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
14 Page Total
15 Report Total (From Last Page)
If more lines are needed, attach additional pages to Form ONRR‐4110
I have read and examined in this report and, to the best of my knowledge, they are accurate and complete.
Name (First, Middle Initail, Last) (Typed or Printed):

Date:

Authorized Signature:

Date:

Name of Preparer:

Telephone Number:

This information should be considered (Please check one):

Proprietary

Nonprorietary

The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) Statement:  The PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) requires us to inform you that we collect this information to corroborate oil and gas production and disposition data with sales and 
royalty data. Proprietary information is protected in accordance with the standards established by the Federal Oil and Gas Royalty Management Act of 1982 (30 U.S.C. 1733), the Freedom of Information Act
[5 U.S.C.552(b)(4)], and the Department regulations (43 CFR 2). An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
Control Number.  Annual public reporting burden for this form is estimated at an average of 20 hours per report for electronic and manual reporting, including the time for reviewing instructions; gathering and 
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Resources Revenue, Mail Stop 64400B, Denver Federal Center, Lakewood, CO 80225.

Form ONRR-4109 (Rev. 9/2018)

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Gas Processing Allowance Report
Form ONRR-4109
General Instructions
You will find an electronic copy of form ONRR-4109 on the Office of Natural Resources Revenue (ONRR)
website at https://www.onrr.gov/ReportPay/royalty-reporting.htm#forms, to print, complete, and submit to
ONRR, as follows:.
Office of Natural Resources Revenue
Document Processing
Denver Federal Center, Building 85
6th Ave. and Kipling St.
P.O. Box 25165
Denver, Colorado 80225-0165
In accordance with 30 CFR 1206.179, a payor may deduct from royalty payments the reasonable actual
costs for processing gas plant products (for example, natural gas liquids (NGLs), sulfur, etc.) from a gas
stream. All natural gas liquids are considered as one product – NGLs, and the processing allowance rate
for NGLs shall be based upon their aggregate processing cost. No allowance will be given for non-royalty
bearing products unless the lessee has secured prior approval from ONRR.
In accordance with 30 CFR 1206.180, processing costs incurred under other than an arm’s-length
contract consist of the following: plant operating costs plus depreciation plus a return on undepreciated
capital investment or a cost equal to the initial depreciable investment in the processing plant multiplied
by the monthly average rate as published in Standard and Poor’s Guide for BBB rated bonds. The rate
must be redetermined at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. A gas processing allowance
rate is determined by dividing the total processing costs by the quality processed.
Requirements: For processing costs incurred under arm’s-length conditions, payors are not required to
submit form ONRR-4109. Instead, payors are required to submit a copy of their arm’s-length processing
allowance contract to ONRR within 2 months of the date that ONRR receives your first report showing the
allowance deduction on form ONRR-2014. For processing allowance costs incurred under non-arm’slength or no contract situations, payors must submit Page 1 of form ONRR-4109 and Schedules 1, 1A
and 1B within 3 months after the end of the 12-month period to which the allowance applies.
Forms:
Form ONRR-4109, Page 1, reports the non-arm’s-length processing allowance amount claimed for a plant product
during the reporting period.
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1, summarizes plant product costs based upon the lessee’s portion of actual plant
operating, maintenance, and overhead costs for non-arm’s-length or no contract situations. And to compute the nonarm’s-length processing allowance rate for a plant product.
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1A, summarizes plant operating, maintenance, and overhead costs for plant product
for non-arm’s-length or no contract situations.
Form ONRR-4109, Supplemental Schedule 1A, lists, in detail, operating, maintenance, and overhead costs that
could not be shown on Schedule 1A because of limited space.
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1B, summarizes plant depreciation and undepreciated capital investment for a plant
product for non-arm’s-length or no contract situations.

Form ONRR-4109 (Rev. 9/2018)

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Gas Processing allowance Summary Report
Form ONRR-4109
Line-by-Line Instructions

Page 1 of form ONRR-4109 is used to report the royalty processing allowance amount claimed for plant products
during the reporting period. In accordance with 30 CFR 1206.179(c), the gas processing allowance may not
exceed 66-2/3 percent of the value of each gas plant product. Before you calculate the 66-2/3 percent limit, you
must first reduce the value for any transportation allowances related to post-processing transportation authorized
under 30 CFR 1206.177. The product processing allowance rate, determined using Schedule 1, must be
computed prior to completing Page 1 of form ONRR-4109.
1. Enter the same payor name and address as used for reporting gas royalties and processing deductions on form
ONRR-2014.
2. Enter the same payor code as reported on form ONRR-2014.
3. Check the Amended Report box if this report amends previously submitted data. A corrected report requires a
two-line entry. The first line reverses the original entry using a minus sign (-) in columns 12a, 12b, and 12c, as
applicable, and the second line shows the correct entry.
4. Reserved for payor comment.
5. Enter the plant name. If extraction and fractionation takes place at separate facilities, then enter the plant name
of each facility.
6. Enter as the reporting period, the period covered by the actual cost data for the processing allowance being
reported in column 12. The reporting period will begin the first day of the calendar year or when the processing
begins and will end the last day of the calendar year or when the processing terminates, whichever is earlier.
7. Line count: that is the number of allowance being reported.
8. Enter the same Lease Number as reported on form ONRR-2014.
9. Enter the same Agreement Number (if applicable), as reported on form ONRR-2014.
10. Enter the same product code as reported on form ONRR-2014.
11. Enter the non-arm’s-length indicator as “NARM”.
12. Column 12 is used for reporting the royalty allowance amount deducted for the reporting period, the allowance
rate, and the royalty quantity processed during the reporting period.
• 12a enter the total royalty quantity processed during the reporting period.
• 12b enter the product processing allowance rate from Schedule 1.
• 12c enter the royalty allowance amount determined by multiplying column 12a by column 12b.
13. Enter page totals on line 13.
14. If the number of allowances being reported exceeds the number of lines on the form ONRR-4109, use additional
Page 1 of form ONRR-4109s. If more than one Page 1 of form ONRR-4109 are submitted, sum the amounts on
line 13 for each page and enter the total on line 14 of the last Page 1 of form ONRR-4109.
Indicate by checking the appropriate box whether the information should be considered proprietary or
nonproprietary.

Form ONRR-4109 (Rev. 9/2018)

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U.S. Department of the Interior
Office of Natural Resources Revenue

Non-Arm's-Length Processing Facilities
Operating Expenses, Depreciation, and Return
on Undepreciated Capital Investment Form
ONRR-4109, Schedule 1

OMB Control Number 1012-0002
OMB Approval Expires 12/31/2018

PLANT NAME & OPERATOR:___________________________________
PAYOR NAME AND CODE _____________________/___________________
ADDRESS_______________________________________________________
CITY_______________________STATE__________ZIP___________________

PRODUCT CODE:_____________________________________________
Period: (mm/dd/ccyy)____________________to_____________________

Lessee's Portion of Plant Expenses, Depreciation, and Return on Undepreciated Capital Investment
(a)

(b)

(c)

(d)

(e)

Plant Depreciation

Undepreciated Capital
Investment at
Beginning-of-Year

Rate of Return

Return on
Undepreciated Capital
Investment

Depreciation Plus Return
on Undepreciated Capital
Investment

Extraction Facility

$

$

$

$

1a

Fractionation Facility

$

$

$

$

1b

Extraction Facility Operating, Maintenance, and Overhead Expenses (from Schedule 1A, Line 21)

$

2a

Fractionation Facility Operating, Maintenance, and Overhead Expenses (from Schedule 1A, Line 21)

$

2b

Total Lessee Operating and Maintenance Expenses (sum column e of line 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b)

$

3

Total Product Quantity (including product quantities processed by lessee for third parties under arm's-length contracts)
Product Processing Cost per unit carried to six decimal places (Line 3 divided by line 4)
THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED (Please check one)

Form ONRR-4109 Schedule 1 (Rev. 9/2015)

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$

PROPRIETARY

NONPROPRIETARY

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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing Facilities Operating Expenses,
Depreciation, and Return on Undepreciated Capital Investment
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1
Instructions
Schedule 1 is used to determine a processing allowance rate for a plant product based upon the lessee’s portion of
the actual plant operating, maintenance, and overhead expenditures incurred during the reporting period.
Enter the same payor name, payor code, and address as used on Page 1 of form ONRR-4109.
Enter the plant name and operator. If extraction and fractionation takes place at separate facilities, enter the plant
name and operator of each facility.
Enter the reporting period. The period must be the same period shown in item 6 on Page 1 of form ONRR-4109.
Instructions for Computing the Processing Allowance Rate and Amount for a Plant Product Based upon the
Lessee’s Portion of Plant Operating Costs, Depreciation, and Return on Undepreciated Capital Investment.
The processing allowance rate must be computed using the total lessee quantities and third-party quantities of
the product processed by the lessee during the reporting period.
Note: Lines 1a and 2a are used for identifying the lessee’s portion of non-arm’s-length or no contract costs for
extraction facilities owned by the lessee. Lines 1b and 2b are used for identifying the lessee’s portion of nonarm’s-length or no contract costs for fractionation facilities owned by the lessee.
1. Depreciation and return on undepreciated capital investment for the product are determined using Schedule
1B. Schedule 1B must be completed prior to completing the following steps on Schedule 1.
a. Enter on line 1a, column a (or line 1b, column a), the total depreciation costs for the reporting
period from Schedule 1B, line 8, column 6. A separate Schedule 1B must be completed when the
lessee is an interest owner in both the extraction facility and the fractionation facility.
b. Enter on line 1, column b (or line 1b, column b), the total undepreciated plant capital investment at
beginning-of-year from Schedule 1B, line 8, column 5.
c. The rate of return shall be the industrial rate associated with Standard and Poor’s BBB rating.
Enter the monthly average rate as published in Standard and Poor’s Bond Guide for the first
month of the reporting period.
d. Compute the return on undepreciated capital investment by multiplying undepreciated capital
investment (column b, lines 1a and/or 1b) by the rate of return (column c, lines 1a and/or 1b).
Enter under column d, lines 1a and/or 1b.
e. Enter the sum of the plant depreciation (column a) and return on undepreciated capital investment
(column d) under column e, lines 1a and 1b.
2. Determine the plant operations, maintenance, and overhead costs for the facility using Schedule 1A. Enter
the total plant operating, maintenance and overhead costs from Schedule 1A, line 21, on Schedule 1, line 2a
or line 2b. A separate Schedule 1A must be completed when the lessee is an interest owner in both an
extraction plant and a fractionation plant.
3. Enter the total plant expense (the sum of column e for lines 1a, 1b, 2a, and 2b) on line 3.

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1 (revised 9/2015)

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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing Facilities Operating Expenses, Depreciation, and
Return on Undepreciated Capital Investment
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1
Instructions (cont'd)
4. Enter the total product quantity produced by the lessee’s portion of the plant during the reporting period,
including the quantity of third-party products processed by the lessee, on line 4.
5. Enter the product processing cost per unit determined by dividing the total lessee expenses (line 3) by the
total quantity of product produced (line 4) on line 5. The processing allowance rate should be carried to 6
decimal places; for example, 0.546576.
Indicate by checking the appropriate box whether the information should be considered proprietary or
nonproprietary.

Allowable and Nonallowable Operating, Maintenance, and Capital Costs
Allowable Capital Costs
Allowable capital costs are generally those expenditures for fixed assets (including delivery and installation
costs) that are an integral part of the facility used in the processing/extraction of gas products. Most capital
items are generally located within the confines of the plant, beginning at the inlet of the plant and ending at the
tailgate of the plant. Transportation facilities owned by the lessee and used to move raw made from an
extraction plant to a fractionation plant shall be considered as an allowable plant expenditure.
Capital costs will vary considerably between plants, since no two systems are exactly alike even thought they
possess superficial similarities. The items listed below are examples of investment items that will be normally
found in different types of plants and should generally be considered as allowable capital costs:
Plant and office buildings, warehouses, shops, laboratories, sidewalks, fences, plant roads and rights-ofway for plants roads, fresh water wells and supply systems, heat and steam, power, fuel, sewage and
general plant facilities, all related controls, meters (including plant inlet and residue sales meters). Also,
pipe valves and fittings, and equipment items whose primary function is the recovery of plant products
including natural gas liquids such as absorbers, heat exchangers, coolers, chillers, fractionating columns,
liquid sweetening facilities, and compression facilities for refrigeration or recompression of unprocessed
gas required during processing.
Nonallowable Capital Costs
Nondepreciable property, such as land and pipeline rights-of-way, or the facilities utilized in bringing the raw
gas from the field to the plant, and facilities utilized for delivering, storing, or otherwise disposing of the
residue gas and liquids after extraction, will generally not be considered plant investments. Capital costs
associated with placing lease production in marketable condition (for example, compression, dehydration,
and on-lease gathering) schools, hospitals, roads, sewer plants and other capital improvements or equipment
not an integral part of the processing facilities are not considered as allowable capital costs. The cost
associated with the preparation of an environmental impact statement is not allowable. However, capital
costs for environmental equipment that are an integral part of the gas processing facility are allowable.
Allowable Operation and Maintenance Costs
Operation and maintenance costs are those nondepreciable expenditures which include the costs of operating
and maintaining the facilities and shall be limited to costs directly allocable and attributable to processing gas
products or extracting natural gas liquid hydrocarbons that the lessee can document.

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1 (Rev. 9/2018)

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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing Facilities Operating Expenses, Depreciation, and
Return on Undepreciated Capital Investment
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1
Instructions (cont'd)
Operation and maintenance expenditures may include the following items:
1. Salaries and wages paid to employees and supervisors while engaged in operating and maintaining the
plant. Such wages must be directly connected to the processing or extraction phase of the plant.
2. Electrical or other energy expenditures.
3. Chemical and lubricants used for the purpose of extraction, protection, or cleaning of plant facilities.
4. Repairs, contract labor, materials, and supplies directly connected to the processing or extraction process of
the plant.
5. Insurance, ad valorem property taxes and payroll taxes (Federal and State income taxes are not allowable
deductions).
6. Rental or leasing expenditures of the plant site.
7. Overhead costs (telephones service, office supplies, salary apportionment, etc.). Overhead costs shall be
limited to those costs which are directly allocable or attributable to the operation and maintenance of the
plant.
Operation and maintenance expenditures will be limited to those items that, in the judgment of ONRR, are an
integral part of the extraction process.
Nonallowable Operating Costs
1. Federal and State income taxes, production taxes or fees such as State severance taxes, and royalty
payments.
2. Any costs associated with nonallowable capital improvement or equipment.
3. Any costs associated with placing the gas in marketable condition which the lessee is obligated to perform
at no cost to the lessor. These costs include among others dehydration, separation, compression, or
storage, and are not allowed even if these costs are performed at a processing plant.
Capital costs and operations and maintenance expenditures may be verified by requesting copies of invoices.

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1 (revised 9/2015)

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U.S. Department of the Interior
Office of Natural Resources Revenue

OMB Control Number 1012-0002
OMB Approval Expires 12/31/2018

Non-Arm's Length Processing Facilities
Operations, Maintenance, and Overhead
Expenditures Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1A

Payor Identification Block
Payor Name and Code:
Plant Name & Operator:
Product:
Period:
(mm/dd/ccyy)

to

A. Lessee's Operating Costs
Operations Supervision and Engineering
Operations Labor
Utilities
Materials
Ad Valorem Property Taxes
Rent
Supplies
Other (specify). Attach Supplemental Schedule 1A
as necessary
Total Operating Costs -- Subtotal

$_________________________ 1
__________________________ 2
__________________________ 3
__________________________ 4
__________________________ 5
__________________________ 6
__________________________ 7
__________________________ 8
__________________________ 9
$_________________________10

B. Lessee's Maintenance Costs
Maintenance Supervision
Maintenance Labor
Materials
Other (specify). Attach Supplemental Schedule 1A
as necessary
Total Maintenance Costs -- Subtotal

$_________________________11
__________________________12
__________________________13
__________________________14
__________________________15
$_________________________16

C. Lessee's Overhead Allocation (specify)
___________________________________
___________________________________
Other (specify) use Supplemental Schedule 1A
Total Overhead Allocation

$_________________________17
__________________________18
__________________________19
$_________________________20

D. Total Operating and Maintenance Costs
(Line 10 + line 16 + line 20)

THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED (Please check one)

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1A (Rev. 9/2015)

$_________________________21

PROPRIETARY

NONPROPRIETARY
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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing
Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Overhead Expenditures
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1A
Instructions
Schedule 1A is used to record the lessee’s portion of the reasonable actual plant operating, maintenance, and
overhead costs for processing the product during the reporting period. A list of allowable and nonallowable
costs is provided herein and should be used as a guide.
Complete the payor information block as follows:
Enter the same payor name and code as reported on form ONRR-4109, Page 1.
Enter the same plant name and operator.
Enter the product; for example, NGLs, sulfur, CO2, etc.
Enter the reporting period. The period must be the same period shown in item 5 on Page 1 of form ONRR4109.
Instructions for Computing Operating, Maintenance, and Overhead Costs
Identify and list on Part A and Part B, the lessee’s portion of all operating and maintenance costs directly
attributable to the plant product during the reporting period. If additional space is needed to identify other cost
items, complete and attach a Supplemental Schedule 1A noting the nature and amount of the cost.
Line 10 – Enter total operating costs (the sum of lines 1-9).
Line 16 – Enter total maintenance costs (the sum of lines 11-15).
Part C – Identify and list the lessee’s portion of all overhead costs directly allocable and attributable to the
processing of the plant product. If additional space is needed, complete and attach a Supplemental Schedule
1A noting the nature and amount of the expenditure.
Line 20 – Sum lines 17 through 19 to obtain the total overhead expenditures directly allocable and attributable
to the plant.
Line 21 – Sum lines 10, 16, and 20 to obtain total plant operating costs. Enter the total on Schedule 1A, line 21.
If the costs are associated with a fractionation facility owned by the lessee, enter the total operating costs on
Schedule 1, line 2b.
Indicate by checking the appropriate box whether the information should be considered proprietary or
nonproprietary.

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1A (revised 9/2015)

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U.S. Department of the Interior

OMB Control Number 1012-0002

Office of Natural Resources Revenue

OMB Approval expires 12/31/2018

Payor Identification Block
Payor Name and Code:

Non-Arm's-Length Processing Facilities
Operations, Maintenance, and Overhead
Expenditures Form ONRR-4109, Supplemental
Schedule 1A

Plant Name & Operator:
Product:
Period:
(mm/dd/ccyy)

Type of Expenditure - Describe

to

$

Total

THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED (Please check one)

Form ONRR-4109 Supplemental Schedule 1A (Rev. 9/2015)

$
PROPRIETARY

NONPROPRIETARY
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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing
Facilities Operations, Maintenance, and Overhead Expenditures
Form ONRR-4109, Supplemental Schedule 1A
Instructions
Supplemental Schedule 1A is used to identify and document the lessee’s portion of all operating, maintenance,
and overhead expenditures as listed under “Other” expenditure categories on Schedule 1A.
Complete the payor information block (see Schedule 1A instructions):
A separate Supplemental Schedule 1A must be prepared for other operations, costs, other maintenance costs,
and other overhead costs associated with the plant but not listed on Schedule 1A.
Describe and specifiy each expenditure item and amount. Receipts and invoices should be retained in the
office of the payor, subject to audit.
Sum the amounts of each expenditure and list on the total line.
Enter the total amount of the operation, maintenance, or overhead expenditures on Schedule 1A, lines 9, 15, or
19 accordingly.
Indicate by checking the appropriate box whether the information should be considered proprietary or
nonproprietary.

Form ONRR-4109, Supplemental Schedule 1A (Rev. 9/2015)

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U.S. Department of the Interior
office of Natural Resources Revenue

OMB Control Number 1012-0002
OMB Approval Expires 12/31/2018

Non-Arm's Length Processing Facilities
Depreciation and Capital Expenditure Summary
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1B
3

2

1

Initial Capital
Investment and
Date Placed in
Service

Expenditure Item
$

Salvage Value

PAYOR IDENTIFICATION BLOCK
Payor Name and Code:
Plant Name:
Product Code:
Period (mm/dd/ccyy):

4

5

6

Depreciable
Life / Expected
Units of Life

Years of
Depreciation /
Units Taken
to Date

Undepreciated
Capital
Investment at
Beginning of
Year

$

Totals

to

$

$

$

$

7

8

Depreciation

Undepreciated
Capital
Investment at
End-of-Year
$

9

THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CONSIDERED (Please Check One): ___PROPRIETY ___NONPROPRIETY
Form ONRR-4109 Schedule 1B (Rev. 9/2018)

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Non-Arm’s-Length Processing
Facilities Depreciation and Capital Expenditure Summary
Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1B
Instructions
Schedule 1B is used to summarize the lessee’s portion of the actual plant depreciation and undepreciated capital
investment associated with the processing of the plant product for computing return on investment.
Complete the payor information block (see Schedule 1 instructions).
For each capital expenditure item complete one line as follows:
1. Identify the capital expenditure item.
2. Enter the lessee’s portion of the initial capital expenditure amount and the date the expenditure was placed
in service.
3. Enter a reasonable salvage value.
4. Enter the depreciable life of the expenditure item or expected units of life.
5. Enter the number of yers of depreciation, or the number of units taken to date.
6. Enter the lessee’s portion of the beginning-of-year undepreciated capital investment. In computing this
amount, salvage must be deducted from the initial capital investment.
7. Enter the amount of depreciation to be taken for the year. In computing depreciation, the payor may elect
to use a straight-line depreciation method, based on the life of the equipment or on the life of the reserves
which the plant services, or a unit-of-production method. Once an election is made, the payor may not
alternate methods without ONRR approval. Equipment shall not be depreciated below a reasonable salvage
value.
8. Enter the end-of-year undepreciated capital investment. This is computed by subtracting depreciation from
the beginning-of-year undepreciated capital investment. This amount will be used as the next year’s
beginning-of-year undepreciated capital investment.
9. Total columns 5 and 6 and enter the result on Schedule 1, columns a and b, line 1a. If the costs are
associated with a fractionation facility owned by the lessee, enter the total costs on Schedule 1, columns a
and b, line 1b.
Indicate by checking the appropriate box whether the information should be considered proprietary or
nonproprietary.

Form ONRR-4109, Schedule 1B (Rev. 9/2018)

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