12/31/14 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-52-14-00024-P
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Commission is considering a proposal filed by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation to make various changes in the rates, charges, rules and regulations contained in its Schedule for Gas Service, P.S.C. No. 8—Gas.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, section 66(12)
Subject:
Distributed Generation (DG), Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) and Prime-WNY programs.
Purpose:
To extend the DG and NGV programs to March 31, 2018 and for authorization of the Prime-WNY program.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve, modify or reject, in whole or in part, a tariff filing by National Fuel Gas Distribution Corporation (the Company) to extend the Distributed Generation (DG) and Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) programs to March 31, 2018. The Company is also seeking authorization of the Partnership to Revitalize the Industrial Manufacturing Economy of Western New York (Prime-WNY), a program with similar features to the DG and NGV programs. Under the Prime-WNY program, the Company would be permitted to buy down the initial capital cost of system improvements, house piping, or customer gas fired equipment for qualifying customers. The customer would compensate the Company for the amount of the capital cost buy down through the incremental revenues derived from the customer’s transportation service contract with the Company. The Company would enter into a contractual arrangement with the customer to recover any amount of the buy down above revenues generated by the tariff rate. The proposed filing has an effective date of April 1, 2015.
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained by filing a Document Request Form (F-96) located on our website http://www.dps.ny.gov/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Deborah Swatling, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2659, email:
deborah.swatling@dps.ny.govData, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Kathleen H. Burgess, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530, email:
secretary@dps.ny.govPublic comment will be received until:
45 days after publication of this notice.
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.
