4/13/11 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-15-11-00012-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 request for exemption of reliability reporting statistics from a July 19 & 20, 2010 weather related outage event by Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. for the purposes of the Service Reliability Performance Mechanism.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, section 66
Subject:
Exemption of reliability reporting statistics for the purposes of the 2010 Service Reliability Performance.
Purpose:
Consideration of Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc.'s request for exemption of the 2010 reliability reporting statistics.
Substance of proposed rule:
In accordance with the New York Public Service Commission's Order Establishing Electric Rate Plan for Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. issued July 23, 2010 in Case 07-E-0949, Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc. (ORU) is subject to a Service Reliability Performance Mechanism. By petition dated March 16, 2011, ORU sought a Request for Exemption from Reliability Reporting for a storm event that occurred on July 19 and 20, 2010. Specifically, ORU is seeking the Commission's authorization to exclude from its 2010 service reliability reporting statistics, used for purposes of the Service Reliability Performance Mechanism, the outage statistics relating to this storm event. The Commission is considering whether to grant, deny or modify, in whole or in part, approval of the exception as requested.
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.state.ny.us/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Leann Ayer, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 486-2655, email:
leann_ayer@dps.state.ny.usData, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Jaclyn A. Brilling, Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530, email:
Secretary@dps.state.ny.usPublic 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.
