5/9/12 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-19-12-00013-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 whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, or to take any other action regarding a request by NYSERDA to allocate uncommitted SBC-III funds to a number of Technology and Market Development Programs.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 4(1), 5(2) and 66(1)
Subject:
Approval to allocate uncommitted SBC-III gas and electric funds to EEPS programs administered by NYSERDA.
Purpose:
Modify NYSERDA's EEPS programs by reallocating uncommitted SBC-III funds.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Commission is considering whether to adopt, modify, or reject, in whole or in part, a March 30, 2012 petition by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority’s (NYSERDA) proposing allocation of uncommitted System Benefit Charge III (SBCIII) funds for certain strategic initiatives in its Technology and Market Development (T&MD) plan. NYSERDA proposes: (1) to allocate uncommitted funds to support additional T&MD program activities in the Advanced Clean Power, Smart Grid and Advanced Buildings programs; (2) a method for reallocating SBC III funds that may become uncommitted in the future; (3) to allocate uncommitted funds to cover the share of the State Cost Recovery Fee allocable to SBC III funds expended on or before December 31, 2011 and; (4) use future SBC III and EEPS interest earnings to pay any future Cost Recovery fees allocable to the expenditure of SBC III funds after December 31, 2011. NYSERDA is proposing to to reallocate $10 million uncommitted SBC-III funds to the Advanced Clean Power Program, $10 million uncommitted SBC-III funds to the Smart Grid Program, $5,760,672 uncommitted SBC-III funds to the Advanced Buildings program and $1,748,336 uncommitted SBC-III funds to the State Cost Recovery Fee.
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.ny.govData, 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.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.
