Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners are scheduled to meet Wednesday afternoon to handle a number of requests, including the raising of cotton ginning rates for the first time in 44 years.
The request for higher rates was made last December by 8 regulated cotton gins who contended they can no longer operate under the rates set more than four decades ago. Cotton ginning rates were put under the control of the Corporation Commission in the 1907 state Constitution.
The current rates date back to September 1981, when the Commission set the charge for ginning picked, snapped, or stripped cotton at $2.00 per hundredweight (cwt) and $7.50 per bale for bagging and tying.
Phil Bohl, chairman of the Oklahoma Cotton Council testified in the rate request that all active cotton gins in the state, with the exception of one in Carnegie, voted to support the Council’s application. He explained that when the last rates were set in 1981, the state had 79 active operating gins but the number has plummeted to nine.
Bohl pointed to ever increase labor, energy and equipment costs but the amount charged by gins for ginning, bagging and tying of cotton has remained static. He also explained Oklahoma cotton farmers are negatively
impacted by the diminished number of gins, including increased transportation costs and, more
importantly, increased wait times for their product to be ginned because of the increased volume
each remaining gin must take on.
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Time, Day, and Date: 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 27, 2026
Place: Concourse Theater, Suite C50, Will Rogers Memorial Office
Building, 2401 North Lincoln Boulevard, Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma 73105
I. A. Call to order
B. Announcement concerning public notice
C. Determination of quorum
II. Consideration of and possible vote(s) on proposed or potential orders in cases on the daily
signing agenda docket. The Commission may discuss and consider alterations, revisions,
or amendments to the proposed or potential orders. (Votes may be taken on individual cases,
on the daily signing agenda docket as a whole, or both by individual cases and the remaining
docket. The vote on daily signing agenda cases may be combined with the vote on 24-hour
signing agenda cases.)
III. Consideration of and possible vote(s) on proposed or potential orders in cases on attached
24-hour signing agenda docket. The Commission may discuss and consider alterations,
revisions, or amendments to the proposed or potential orders. (Votes may be taken on
individual cases on the 24-hour signing agenda docket as a whole, or both by individual
cases and the remaining docket.)
IV. New business
A. Any matter not known about and which could not have been reasonably foreseen 24
hours before the meeting
B. Possible vote(s) on matters of new business
V. Adjournment
BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF
OKLAHOMA 24 HR SIGNING AGENDA (PROPOSED ORDERS)
Case Number PUD2025-000080 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties OKLAHOMA COTTON COUNCIL (Applicant) Relief In Caption AN ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
MODIFYING COMMISSION ORDER NO. 199421 AND AUTHORIZING AN INCREASE IN RATES FOR THE GINNING, BAGGING, AND TYING OF COTTON IN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
Order Title FINAL ORDER
Case Number PUD2025-000083 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties TWOTREES TECHNOLOGIES LLC
(Applicant)
Relief In Caption IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF TWOTREES TECHNOLOGIES, LLC FOR A CERTIFICATE OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY TO PROVIDE SPECIAL
UNIVERSAL SERVICES WITHIN THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA Order Title FINAL ORDER GRANTING CERTIFICATE
OF CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
Case Number PUD2026-000017 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY LLC D/B/A AT&T OKLAHOMA
(Applicant) | WIDE VOICE LLC (Applicant)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC, D/B/A AT&T OKLAHOMA SEEKING OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION APPROVAL OF AN INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT BETWEEN AT&T OKLAHOMA AND WIDE VOICE, LLC Order Title FINAL ORDER APPROVING
INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT
Case Number PUD2026-000019 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties ARGENBRIGHT, MARK (Applicant) |
LIBERTY-EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC
COMPANY (Respondent)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF MARK ARGENBRIGHT, DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION, OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION, FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW AND MONITOR APPLICATION OF THE FUEL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE OF LIBERTY-EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY, A KANSAS CORPORATION, FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025 AND, FOR A PRUDENCE REVIEW OF THE FUEL PROCUREMENT PROCESSES AND COSTS OF LIBERTY- EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC
COMPANY, A KANSAS CORPORATION, FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION FOR ORDER PRESCRIBING NOTICE
Case Number PUD2026-000019 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties ARGENBRIGHT, MARK (Applicant) |
LIBERTY-EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY (Respondent)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF MARK ARGENBRIGHT, DIRECTOR OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY DIVISION, OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION, FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO REVIEW AND MONITOR APPLICATION OF THE FUEL ADJUSTMENT CLAUSE OF LIBERTY-EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY, A KANSAS CORPORATION, FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025 AND, FOR A PRUDENCE REVIEW OF THE FUEL PROCUREMENT PROCESSES AND COSTS OF LIBERTY- EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC
COMPANY, A KANSAS CORPORATION, FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR 2025
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO
ESTABLISH PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE
Case Number PUD2026-000020 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY LLC D/B/A AT&T OKLAHOMA
(Applicant) | ENTELEGENT SOLUTIONS INC
(Applicant)
Relief In Caption APPLICATION OF SOUTHWESTERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY, LLC D/B/A AT&T OKLAHOMA SEEKING OKLAHOMA CORPORATION COMMISSION
APPROVAL OF AN AMENDMENT TO THE INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT OF AT&T OKLAHOMA
AND ENTELEGENT SOLUTIONS, INC. Order Title FINAL ORDER APPROVING AMENDMENT TO INTERCONNECTION AGREEMENT
Case Number PUD2026-000021 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties SUMMIT UTILITIES OKLAHOMA INC
(Applicant)
Relief In Caption IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION F SUMMIT UTILITIES OKLAHOMA, INC., FOR APPROVAL OF ITS PERFORMANCE-BASED RATE CHANGE PLAN CALCULATIONS FOR THE TWELVE MONTHS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2025
Order Title ORDER GRANTING PROTECTIVE ORDER
Case Number PUD2026-000031 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY (Applicant)
Relief In Caption IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY FOR
COMMISSION APPROVAL OF ELECTRIC SERVICE AGREEMENTS AND PREAPPROVAL OF CAPACITY
PURCHASE AGREEMENTS PURSUANT TO 17 O.S. § 286(C) Order Title ORDER GRANTING PROTECTIVE
ORDER BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF
OKLAHOMA
DAILY SIGNING AGENDA (PROPOSED ORDERS)
Case Number CD2023-003080 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003081 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003082 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003083 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003084 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003085 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003086 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S15 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003087 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003089 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003090 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003091 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003092 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003093 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003094 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003095 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003096 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2023-003097 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties CIMAREX ENERGY CO (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Increased well density
1st Legal Loc./County S10 T13N R8W / Canadian
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2024-002600 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOURCE PARTNERS LLC (Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Multi-unit horizontal well
1st Legal Loc./County S3 T4N R5W / Grady
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO ADVANCE
Case Number CD2024-002601 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOURCE
PARTNERS LLC (Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S3 T4N R5W / Grady
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO ADVANCE
Case Number CD2024-003144 Order Type Motion RSO OKC
Parties UPLAND OPERATING LLC (Applicant) |
UPLAND EXPLORATION OKLAHOMA LLC
(Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Increased well density
1st Legal Loc./County S7 T14N R24W / Roger Mills
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION GRANTING MOTION FOR EXTENSION
OF TIME TO COMMENCE OPERATIONS
Case Number CD2024-003470 Order Type DMOA RSO OKC
Parties CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOURCE PARTNERS LLC (Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S6 T4N R4W / Garvin
Order Title ORDER DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2025-000321 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties CASILLAS PETROLEUM RESOURCE PARTNERS LLC (Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S6 T4N R4W / Garvin
Order Title FINAL ORDER OF THE COMMISSION EXCEPTION TO RULE
Case Number CD2025-000626 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S1 T14N R18W / Custer
Order Title ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS
Case Number CD2025-001152 Order Type Dismissal Order RSO TUL
Parties KAISER-FRANCIS OIL COMPANY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Location Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S6 T13N R18W / Custer
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2025-002949 Order Type DMOA RSO OKC
Parties CRAWLEY PETROLEUM CORPORATION
(Applicant)
Relief Type(s) Drilling and Spacing Unit
1st Legal Loc./County S19 T12N R18W / Custer
Order Title ORDER DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number CD2026-000613 Order Type Final RSO TUL
Parties MMGL ARKOMA II, LLC (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Change of operator
1st Legal Loc./County S1 T1N R10E / Coal
Order Title FINDINGS AND ORDER FOR CHANGE OF OPERATOR
Case Number CD2026-001535 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties LANCE RUFFEL OIL&GAS LLC (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Pooling
1st Legal Loc./County S34 T20N R2E / Payne
Order Title ORDER OF THE COMMISSION
Case Number CD2026-002032 Order Type DMOA RSO OKC
Parties MEWBOURNE OIL COMPANY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Change of operator
1st Legal Loc./County S18 T15N R18W / Custer
Order Title ORDER DISMISSING CAUSE
Case Number PD2025-000027 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties CIRCLE 9 RESOURCES LLC (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Disposal Well
1st Legal Loc./County S13 T7N R6E / Seminole
Order Title ORDER PERMITTING NONCOMMERCIAL DISPOSAL WELL
Case Number PD2025-000151 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties CIRCLE 9 RESOURCES LLC (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Rule – Waiver or Exception
1st Legal Loc./County S13 T7N R6W / Seminole
Order Title FINAL ORDER OF THE COMMISSION APPROVING EXCEPTION TO OAC 165
10 3 4 D 1
Case Number SF2026-000025 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties HODGES, JEREMY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Plug Abandoned Well(s)
1st Legal Loc./County S28 T22N R15E / Rogers
Order Title FINAL ORDER
Case Number SF2026-000026 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties HODGES, JEREMY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Plug Abandoned Well(s)
1st Legal Loc./County S28 T22N R15E / Rogers
Order Title FINAL ORDER
Case Number SF2026-000027 Order Type Final RSO OKC
Parties HODGES, JEREMY (Applicant) Relief Type(s) Plug Abandoned Well(s)
1st Legal Loc./County S28 T22N R15E / Rogers
Order Title FINAL ORDER
