12/21/11 N.Y. St. Reg. LPA-51-11-00006-P
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Long Island Power Authority (“Authority”) is considering a proposal to modify its Tariff for Electric Service to make miscellaneous changes in connection with certain temporary pole attachments and with the Authority's Solar Hot Water Heating program.
Statutory authority:
Public Authorities Law, section 1020-f(z) and (u)
Subject:
Authority's Tariff for Electric Service.
Purpose:
To make miscellaneous Tariff changes in connection with certain pole attachments and the Solar Hot Water Heating program.
Public hearing(s) will be held at:
10:00 a.m., Feb. 6, 2012 at H. Lee Dennison Bldg., 100 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge, NY; 2:00 p.m., Feb. 6, 2012 at Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., 2nd Fl., Uniondale, NY.
Interpreter Service:
Interpreter services will be made available to hearing impaired persons, at no charge, upon written request submitted within reasonable time prior to the scheduled public hearing. The written request must be addressed to the agency representative designated in the paragraph below.
Accessibility:
All public hearings have been scheduled at places reasonably accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Long Island Power Authority ("Authority") is considering a proposal to modify its Tariff for Electric Service to make miscellaneous changes to add language to the Tariff indicating that the pole attachment fee may be waived for certain temporary and revocable attachments where the disposition is of nominal value to the parties. The Authority also proposes to modify the Tariff to allow the customers on the water heating discounted rate to participate in the Solar Hot Water efficiency program without losing their rate benefits. The Authority may approve, modify, or reject, in whole or part, the proposal.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:
Andrew McCabe, Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., Suite 403, Uniondale, NY 11553, (516) 222-7700, email:
amccabe@lipower.orgData, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Same as above.
Public comment will be received until:
Five days after the last scheduled public hearing.
Regulatory Impact Statement, Regulatory Flexibility Analysis, Rural Area Flexibility Analysis and Job Impact Statement
Statements and analyses are not submitted with this notice because the proposed rule is within the definition contained in section 102(2)(a)(ii) of the State Administrative Procedure Act.
