LPA-19-16-00015-P Customer Requests for Rehearings of LIPA's Decisions on Appeals and Shared Meter Determinations

5/11/16 N.Y. St. Reg. LPA-19-16-00015-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXVIII, ISSUE 19

May 11, 2016

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

LONG ISLAND POWER AUTHORITY

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. LPA-19-16-00015-P

Customer Requests for Rehearings of LIPA's Decisions on Appeals and Shared Meter Determinations

PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:

Proposed Action:

LIPA is considering a proposal to modify its Tariff to transfer certain responsibilities related to the handling of customer requests for rehearings of LIPA's decisions on appeals and shared meter determinations to the Long Island Office of the DPS.

Statutory authority:

Public Authorities Law, section 1020-f(z) and (ff); Public Service Law, section 3-b(3)(e)

Subject:

Customer requests for rehearings of LIPA's decisions on appeals and shared meter determinations.

Purpose:

To transfer certain responsibilities regarding handling of customer petitions to DPS Long Island.

Public hearing(s) will be held at:

10:00 a.m., July 5, 2016 at H. Lee Dennison Bldg., 100 Veterans Memorial Hwy., Hauppauge, NY; and 2:00 p.m., July 5, 2016 at 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., 4th 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 (“LIPA”) proposes to modify its Tariff for Electric Service (“Tariff”) in order to transfer certain responsibilities related to the handling of customer complaints to the Long Island Office of the Department of Public Service (“DPS”) consistent with the LIPA Reform Act and the processes followed by the Department of Public Service with respect to handling of customer complaints at investor owned utilities.

Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:

Justin Bell, Long Island Power Authority, 333 Earle Ovington Blvd., Suite 403, Uniondale, NY 11553, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, 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.