7/30/08 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-31-08-00022-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 extending the settlement period for conversion transactions used in the calculation of environmental disclosure labels for retail electricity providers from six months to 12 months.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 4(1), 5(2), 66(1) and (2)
Subject:
Modifications in the current process used to calculate environmental disclosure labels.
Purpose:
Improve the efficiency of the current process while providing more flexibility to current market participants.
Substance of proposed rule:
The New York State Public Service Commission (NYPSC or Commission) is considering modifying the settlement period used for the Environmental Disclosure Program. New York State's Environmental Disclosure Program was established to provide information to retail electricity customers about the attributes of the electricity being supplied to them by their Load Serving Entity. The information is presented to the customer in the form of a label that discloses information based on the last calculated annual period. The label contains a disclosure of the mix of fuel sources used to produce the electricity that was purchased by the consumer and a graph that displays how the emission levels of sulfur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2) for that fuel mix compare to the average for New York State. Staff of the New York State Department of Public Service (the Administrator) administer the program and currently compile and distribute updated environmental disclosure information in a six-month cycle or settlement period. The Commission is considering modifying the settlement period so that the compilation and distribution of updated environmental disclosure information would occur in a twelve-month cycle or settlement period corresponding with the calendar year.
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:
Central Operations, Public Service Commission, Bldg. 3, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350, (518) 474-2500
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Jaclyn A. Brilling, Secretary, Public Service Commission, Bldg. 3, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530
Public 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.
