Rates and Charges
NY-ADR
5/28/08 N.Y. St. Reg. PSC-22-08-00007-P
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XXX, ISSUE 22
May 28, 2008
RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
PROPOSED RULE MAKING
NO HEARING(S) SCHEDULED
I.D No. PSC-22-08-00007-P
Rates and Charges
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 the petition of United Water Westchester Inc. to increase an ongoing surcharge and implement an additional one year surcharge to recover increased purchased water costs from both Westchester Joint Waterworks and Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut.
Statutory authority:
Public Service Law, section 89-c(10)
Subject:
Rates and charges.
Purpose:
To allow United Water Westchester Inc. to surcharge customers for increased water costs and defer certain water costs until recovered in the surcharges.
Substance of proposed rule:
The Commission is considering whether to approve, reject of modify, in whole or in part, the petition of United Water Westchester Inc. to increase an ongoing surcharge for water costs and to implement a one year surcharge to recover deferred water costs associated with unrecovered costs. In accordance with previous rate cases and rate settlements, United Water Westchester may defer and surcharge increased water costs it experiences from both Westchester Joint Waterworks (WJW) and Aquarion Water Company of Connecticut (Aquarion). The increases proposed for the ongoing costs are 1.66% for WJW and 9.21% for Aquarion. The one year surcharge would be 2.22% for WJW and 5.17% for Aquarion.
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.state.ny.us/f96dir.htm. For questions, contact:
Central Operations, Public Service Commission, Bldg. 3, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350, (518) 474-2500
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Jaclyn A. Brilling, Secretary, Public Service Commission, Bldg. 3, Empire State Plaza, Albany, NY 12223-1350, (518) 474-6530
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.
(08-W-0464SA1)
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