8/27/14 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-34-14-00007-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 proposal filed by KeySpan Gas East dba Brooklyn Union of L.I. to make various changes to the rates, charges, rules and regulations contained in its Schedule for Gas Services P.S.C. No. 1 — Gas.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, sections 5, 65 and 66
Subject:
Tariff changes to revise the calculation of the monthly cost of gas for the fixed gas cost and the fixed cost credit components.
Purpose:
To revise the calculation of the fixed gas cost and the fixed cost credit components of SC Nos. 4A; 4A-CNG and 4B.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Public Service Commission is considering whether to approve, modify or reject, in whole or in part, a tariff filing by KeySpan Gas East Corp. d/b/a Brooklyn Union of L.I. (the Company) to revise the calculation of both the fixed gas cost component and the fixed cost credit component of the monthly cost of gas for Service Classification (SC) No. 4A - High Load Factor Service; SC No. 4A-CNG - Compressed Natural Gas Equipment Service and SC No. 4B - Year-Round Air Conditioning Service. These changes will impact the calculation of the monthly cost of gas for the Company’s firm sales customers provided service under SC No. 1 - Residential; SC No. 2 - General Service (Non-Residential); SC No. 3 - Heating and/or Water Heating Service (Multi-Family Buildings) and SC No. 21 - Base Load Distributed Generation Sales Service. Also impacted is the calculation of the fixed cost credits allocated to sellers serving transportation customers provided service under SC No. 17 - Core Transportation and Swing Service. The proposed adjustments to the fixed costs and fixed cost credits are to be phased-in over a three year period in order to minimize impact to customers. The amendments have an effective date of September 1, 2014.
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) 474-4535, 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.
