PSC-32-13-00010-P Permission to Write Off and Eliminate Recordkeeping for Regulatory Reserves for Pensions and Other Post Retirement Benefits

8/7/13 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-32-13-00010-P

NEW YORK STATE REGISTER

VOLUME XXXV, ISSUE 32

August 07, 2013

RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

PROPOSED RULE MAKING

NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED

 

I.D No. PSC-32-13-00010-P

Permission to Write Off and Eliminate Recordkeeping for Regulatory Reserves for Pensions and Other Post Retirement Benefits

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 allow, modify or reject a petition filed by the Frontier Telecommunication Companies seeking to write off and eliminate recordkeeping for Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits Reserves.

Statutory authority:

Public Service Law, section 95(2)

Subject:

Permission to write off and eliminate recordkeeping for regulatory reserves for Pensions and Other Post Retirement Benefits.

Purpose:

To allow write off and eliminate recordkeeping of Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits Reserves.

Substance of proposed rule:

The Commission is considering whether to allow, reject or modify the Frontier Telecommunication Companies Petition in Case 13-C-0293 to write off Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits Reserves, and to provide the Frontier Telecommunications Companies (Citizens Telecommunications Company of New York, Inc., Ogden Telephone Company, Frontier Communications of New York, Inc., Frontier Communications of Ausable Valley, Inc., Frontier Communications of Sylvan Lake, Frontier Communications of Seneca Gorham, Frontier Communications of Rochester, Inc.) relief from certain accounting and reporting requirements related to Pension and Other Post Retirement Benefits Reserves.

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, [phone], email: [e-mail]

Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:

Jeffrey C. Cohen, Acting Secretary, Public Service Commission, 3 Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York 12223-1350, [phone], email: [e-mail]

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.

(13-C-0293SP1)