Section 69.809. Filings

(a) The major jurisdictional utility companies are encouraged to file with the Secretary of the Commission and the Bureau of Public Liaison by March 1 of each year, beginning in 1995, an annual report describing their diversity program activity for the prior year. The annual report should contain at least the following elements:

(1) A description of minority/women/persons with disabilities-owned business program activities engaged in during the previous calendar year. This description includes both internal and external activities.

(2) A description of progress in meeting or exceeding the proposed levels and an explanation of circumstances that may have caused the utility to fall short of its established minimum improvement levels.

(3) A description of innovative approaches to encourage minority/ women/persons with disabilities-owned business development, partnering, subcontracting, joint-venturing and venture capital projects.

(4) A summary of prime contractors which report utilization of minority/women/persons with disabilities-owned business subcontractors indicating the number of disability-owned business subcontractors and the associated dollars.

(5) An explanation for the continued classification of exempt procurement for products or services which have been used to set minimum levels of improvement because of the established unavailability of minority/women/persons with disabilities-owned business suppliers.

(6) Sections 69.801—69.808 and this section permit utilities to break specific categories down further than presently suggested—for example, reporting contracts awarded to Filipino Americans separately from those awarded to Asian Pacific-Americans, or reporting male and female results within minority-owned classifications. Data reported for nonminority women, may be reported separately from data reported for minority business enterprises.

(c) Information that is otherwise unobtainable to the major jurisdictional utility company, for example, prime contractor utilization of minority/women/persons with disabilities-owned businesses as subcontractors, should be reported in the annual filings.

The provisions of this § 69.809 adopted March 24, 1995, effective March 25, 1995, 25 Pa.B. 1084.

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Cross References

This section cited in 52 Pa. Code § 69.802 (relating to definitions).