PRINTER'S NO. 2809
No. 2103 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY VEON, LaGROTTA, BEBKO-JONES, EACHUS, GOOD,
GRUCELA, FREEMAN, KIRKLAND, FABRIZIO, BELARDI, LEDERER, CRUZ,
BELFANTI, GOODMAN, JOSEPHS, SAYLOR, BISHOP, YOUNGBLOOD, COY,
KOTIK, TIGUE, WALKO AND LEACH, OCTOBER 16, 2003
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, OCTOBER 16, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the duties of
3 electric distribution companies.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 2807 of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 2807. Duties of electric distribution companies.
9 * * *
10 (f) Maintaining distribution and transmission service
11 quality.--
12 (1) The commission shall adopt such orders, secretarial
13 letters, regulations and enforcement actions as necessary and
14 appropriate to assure that each electric distribution company
15 provides distribution and transmission service at a level of
16 performance that meets or exceeds that provided as of January
17 1, 1997.
1 (2) The commission shall publish and release to the
2 public on or before September 1 of each year a report
3 providing such information and analyses as necessary and
4 appropriate for the commission to certify as to each electric
5 distribution company that during the prior calendar year,
6 each electric distribution company did or did not provide
7 distribution and transmission service equal to or better than
8 that provided as of January 1, 1997. The report shall:
9 (i) Identify any material aspects of the reliability
10 performance of each electric distribution company that
11 exceed that provided as of January 1, 1997.
12 (ii) Identify any material deficiency in the
13 reliability performance of each electric distribution
14 company that fails to meet that provided as of January 1,
15 1997.
16 (iii) The steps that each electric distribution
17 company has taken to correct any such deficiency.
18 (iv) The orders or other steps taken by the
19 commission to assure that reliable distribution and
20 transmission service equal to or better than that
21 provided on January 1, 1997, shall be provided by each
22 electric distribution company.
23 (3) The commission shall require each electric
24 distribution company to file on or before May 31 of each year
25 a public report on the reliability of its distribution and
26 transmission service during the prior calendar year,
27 including, but not limited to:
28 (i) A detailed description of distribution and
29 transmission facilities in service, retired from service
30 during the report year and planned additions for the
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1 postreport year.
2 (ii) The dollar value for capital investment,
3 inspection, tree trimming, maintenance and other
4 transmission and distribution system reliability
5 operations in rates, as budgeted and actual expenditures.
6 (iii) The number and cost of employees and
7 contractors responsible for maintaining and restoring
8 transmission and distribution service in rates, as
9 budgeted and actual.
10 (iv) The number of momentary and sustained service
11 disruptions, the number of customers affected and the
12 duration of each service disruption.
13 (v) The cause of each service disruption, including
14 the number and percentage of events and customers
15 affected due to weather, animal contact, equipment
16 failure, equipment deterioration, lack of adequate
17 facilities, human error and other causes.
18 (vi) Descriptions and explanations of the company
19 capital investment, inspection, maintenance, tree
20 trimming and other programs and plans that affect service
21 quality performance, changes from the report year to the
22 prior or next year, and the relationship of such plans to
23 the information provided in the report and the ability of
24 the company to provide distribution and transmission
25 service at or exceeding the level provided on January 1,
26 1997.
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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