1/2/08 N.Y. St. Reg. PAS-41-07-00007-A
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following action:
Action taken:
Increase in rates for sale of firm power and related tariff changes applicable to governmental customers located in Westchester County.
Statutory authority:
Public Authorities Law, section 1005(6)
Subject:
Rates for the sale of power and energy.
Purpose:
To recover the authority's cost of providing firm power and energy services.
Substance of final rule:
No formal comments were received on the proposal. Based on Power Authority staff's analysis, the final increase in production rates for Westchester County Governmental Customers for Rate Year 2008 is 15.05%.
Subsequent to the issuance of the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, staff recognized the need to revise Section “H” of the Common Provisions in Service Tariff No. 200. Section “H” stated that rates and charges would be applied to service on or after the effective date, such that where bills included periods before and after the effective date, the rates and charges were to be prorated accordingly. Section “H” will be modified for production rates only to be consistent with the ECA billing procedures and to be applied on a billing-period basis. Section “H” relating to production rates will be moved from Section V Common Provisions to Section “B” under Section VI General Provisions Applicable to Production and modified to read as set forth below:
Revised Section “B”: “Effective Date of Rates and Charges”
“The foregoing rates and charges shall apply to any billing period that includes service on and after the effective date hereof, and are applicable for the entire billing period.”
For this rate action, the new production rates will be effective on January 1, 2008 and will be applicable to the January 2008 billing period. The proration of the charges as described in the current Section “H” will still apply to delivery rates. The existing Section “H” (which will be applicable to delivery only) will be moved to Section “D” under General Provisions Applicable to Delivery.
Final rule as compared with last published rule:
Substantial revisions were made.
Text of rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:
Anne B. Cahill, Power Authority of the State of New York, 123 Main St., 15-M, White Plains, NY 10601, (914) 390-8036, e-mail:
secretarys.office@nypa.govAssessment of Public Comment
An assessment of public comment is not submitted with this notice because the rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
