Rates for the Sale of Power and Energy
NY-ADR
2/11/09 N.Y. St. Reg. PAS-06-09-00001-P
NEW YORK STATE REGISTER
VOLUME XXXI, ISSUE 6
February 11, 2009
RULE MAKING ACTIVITIES
POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
PROPOSED RULE MAKING
HEARING(S) SCHEDULED
I.D No. PAS-06-09-00001-P
Rates for the Sale of Power and Energy
PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF THE State Administrative Procedure Act, NOTICE is hereby given of the following proposed rule:
Proposed Action:
Increase in hydroelectric preference power rates.
Statutory authority:
Public Authorities Law, section 1005(5)
Subject:
Rates for the sale of power and energy.
Purpose:
To maintain the system's fiscal integrity.
Public hearing(s) will be held at:
11:00 a.m., March 19, 2009 at 30 S. Pearl St., Videoconference Rm. - 10th Fl., Albany, NY.
Interpreter Service:
Interpreter services will be made available to hearing impaired persons, at no charge, upon written request submitted within reasonable time prior to the scheduled public hearing. The written request must be addressed to the agency representative designated in the paragraph below.
Accessibility:
All public hearings have been scheduled at places reasonably accessible to persons with a mobility impairment.
Substance of proposed rule:
Pursuant to the New York Public Authorities Law, Section 1005, the Power Authority of the State of New York (the “Authority”) proposes to increase its rates for hydroelectric preference power supplied by the Niagara and St. Lawrence-FDR hydroelectric projects, effective May 1, 2009. Preference power is sold primarily to municipal and rural electric cooperative customers, the neighboring state customers and the upstate utilities for resale to their residential customers.
The Authority proposal would increase rates for a typical preference power customer by 8.2% in the first year (May 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010) and by 3.9% in the second year (May 1, 2010 to April 30, 2011).
Written comments on the proposed increase will be accepted through Monday, March 30, 2009, at the address below. For further information, contact:
POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
Anne B. Cahill, Corporate Secretary
123 Main Street, 15M
White Plains, New York 10601
(914) 390-8036
(914) 681-6949 (fax)
Text of proposed rule and any required statements and analyses may be obtained from:
Anne B. Cahill, Corporate Secretary, Power Authority of the State of New York, 123 Main Street, 15-M, White Plains, New York 10601, (914) 390-8036, email: [email protected]
Data, views or arguments may be submitted to:
Same as above.
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.
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