4/23/14 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-16-14-00010-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 the implementation of Chapter 57 Part S of the Laws of 2014, reducing the amount of the surcharge to be collected pursuant to Public Service Law section 18-a(6).
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 66(1), 80(1), (10), 89-c(1) and (10)
Subject:
Temporary Annual Assessment.
Purpose:
To implement reductions in the percentage of the assessment to be collected.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Commission is considering the adoption of a rule implementing Chapter 57 Part S of the Laws of 2014 reducing the amount to be collected via the Temporary Annual Assessment, pursuant to Public Service Law § 18-a(6). That section imposes upon public utility companies an Assessment equal to two per centum of the utility’s gross intrastate operating revenues, less the amount assessed to pay the costs and expenses of the Commission and the Department of Public Service, as a credit to the state general fund. The revenues subject to the Assessment include revenues derived from sales of electricity and natural gas commodities by third parties. The issues under consideration include how the Commission implement reductions in the amount to be collected via the Assessment, how a phase down of the assessment from two per centum to seventy three one hundredths of one per centum will be implemented, and how the Commission will determine the final collection date to be used by the utilities subject to the assessment.
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.
