3/19/14 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-11-14-00005-P
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, the joint petition for rehearing, which was filed on February 18, 2014, in response to the Commission's Order issued on January 16, 2014.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 4(1), 5(1)(b), (2), 65(1), (2) and (3), 66(1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (8), (9), (10), (11), (12), (12-a), (12-b), (16) and (20)
Subject:
Reliability Support Services Agreement for electric service reliability.
Purpose:
Consideration of a Reliability Support Services Agreement for electric service reliability.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, the joint petition for rehearing, which was filed by Sierra Club and Earthjustice, on behalf of the Ratepayer and Community Intervenors, on February 18, 2014, and may address any related matters. The joint petition for rehearing was filed in response to the Commission's Order issued on January 16, 2014, accepting an agreement whereby New York State Electric & Gas Corporation would procure Reliability Support Services (RSS) from Cayuga Operating Company, LLC’s generating facility located in Lansing, New York, and recover the costs associated with the RSS agreement.
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.