PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION [ 52 PA. CODE CH. 67 ] Corrective Amendment to 52 Pa. Code § 67.1(d) [42 Pa.B. 5969]
[Saturday, September 22, 2012]The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has discovered a discrepancy between the agency text of 52 Pa. Code § 67.1 (relating to general provisions), as deposited with the Legislative Reference Bureau, and the official text published at 42 Pa.B. 9 (January 7, 2012) and as currently appearing in the Pennsylvania Code. Subsection (d) was printed incorrectly.
Therefore, under 45 Pa.C.S. § 901: The Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission has deposited with the Legislative Reference Bureau a corrective amendment to 52 Pa. Code § 67.1(d). The corrective amendment to 52 Pa. Code § 67.1(d) is effective as of January 7, 2012, the effective date of adoption of the final-form rulemaking amending this section.
The correct version of 52 Pa. Code § 67.1 appears in Annex A.
Annex A TITLE 52. PUBLIC UTILITIES PART I. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION Subpart C. FIXED SERVICE UTILITIES CHAPTER 67. SERVICE OUTAGES § 67.1. General provisions.
(a) Electric, gas, water and telephone utilities holding certificates of public convenience under 66 Pa.C.S. §§ 1101 and 1102 (relating to organization of public utilities; and beginning of service and enumeration of acts requiring certificate) shall adopt the following steps to notify the Commission with regard to unscheduled service interruptions.
(b) All electric, gas, water and telephone utilities shall notify the Commission when 2,500 or 5.0%, whichever is less, of their total customers have an unscheduled service interruption in a single event for 6 or more projected consecutive hours. A service outage report shall be filed with the Commission within 10 working days after the total restoration of service. Where storm conditions cause multiple reportable interruptions as defined by this section, a single composite service outage report shall be filed for the event. Each report must contain the following information:
(1) The approximate number of customers interrupted during the event.
(2) The approximate number of trouble cases for each county affected during the event. Trouble cases are non-outage cases such as primary and secondary line-down calls and emergency calls.
(3) The approximate number of outage cases for each county affected during the event.
(4) The number of outage cases exceeding 6 or more hours in duration.
(5) A listing of each outage case exceeding 6 or more hours in duration, including the following:
(i) Approximate geographic location (county, city, municipality or township).
(ii) Total number of customers affected.
(iii) Duration of the outage.
(iv) Initial date and time of the outage.
(v) Restoration time and date.
(6) The reason for the interruption.
(7) The projected time for service restoration of the event.
(8) A listing of the number of utility workers assigned specifically to the repair work by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(9) A listing of the number of contract workers assigned specifically to the repair work by company and by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(10) A listing of the number of workers received as mutual aid by company and by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(11) The date and time of the first information of a service interruption.
(12) The date and time that repair crews were assembled.
(13) The actual time that service was restored to the last affected customer.
(14) A general description of the physical damage sustained by the utility facilities as a result of the event. The description must include facilities replaced due to damage and a listing of the number of poles, transformers, spans of wire, pipes or valves replaced.
(15) For weather-related events, the utility's weather reports, outlooks or scenarios for the day before and the day of the interruption event.
(16) For all interruption events that caused outages to more than 10% of customers in the utility's service territory, and to the best of the utility's ability to access historical data, the historical ranking of the event in terms of the number and duration of outages and examples of two comparable events, including the number and duration of outages for those comparable events.
(c) In addition to the requirements of subsection (b), the utility shall notify the Commission by telephone within 1 hour after preliminary assessment of conditions reasonably indicates that the criteria listed in subsection (b) may be applicable. Subsection (b)(1), (3), (6) and (7) shall be used as guidelines for the telephone report. The Commission will maintain telephone lines for this purpose and will notify each utility of the numbers to be called. Blank outage reporting forms are available for download on the Commission's web site.
(d) The Commission will implement a plan to govern its internal operations in receiving notification of service interruptions, in investigating such interruptions, and in assisting the customers of the utility, the utility and Commonwealth agencies in restoring service.
(e) All electric, gas, water and telephone utilities shall list in the local telephone directories of their service areas, and on their web sites, a telephone number to be used during normal operating hours and an emergency telephone number to be used 24 hours in emergency service situations.
(f) As defined in subsection (b), the service outage report must contain the required information except for the following utilities:
(1) Gas utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (5), (14), (15) and (16).
(2) Water utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (15) and (16).
(3) Telephone utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (12), (14), (15) and (16). Alternatively, in lieu of the service outage report required under subsection (b), telephone utilities may file a comparable outage report required by the Federal Communications Commission as long as the comparable report, at a minimum, contains the following information:
(i) The name of the reporting entity.
(ii) The reason for the interruption.
(iii) The date and time of the first information of a service interruption.
(iv) The approximate number of customers interrupted.
(v) The geographic area affected by the interruption.
(vi) The actual time that service was restored to the last affected customer.
(g) The reporting under this chapter is not limited to the requirements in this section and does not limit requests for additional information.
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 12-1858. Filed for public inspection September 21, 2012, 9:00 a.m.]
