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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
(a) Submission.--In order to be eligible to recover costs under section 1353 (relating to distribution system improvement charge), a utility must submit a long-term infrastructure improvement plan. The plan shall include the following:
(1) Identification of the types and age of eligible property owned or operated by the utility for which the utility would seek recovery under this subchapter.
(2) An initial schedule for the planned repair and replacement of eligible property.
(3) A general description of the location of the eligible property.
(4) A reasonable estimate of the quantity of eligible property to be improved.
(5) Projected annual expenditures to implement the plan and measures taken to ensure that the plan is cost effective.
(6) The manner in which the replacement of aging infrastructure will be accelerated and how the repair, improvement or replacement will ensure and maintain adequate, efficient, safe, reliable and reasonable service.
(7) If the plan is not adequate and sufficient to ensure and maintain adequate, efficient, safe, reliable and reasonable service, the commission shall order a new or revised plan.
(b) Periodic review.--
(1) The commission shall promulgate regulations for the periodic review at least once every five years of long-term infrastructure plans. The regulations may authorize a utility to revise, update or resubmit a plan as appropriate.
(2) The regulations shall ensure that a distribution system improvement charge shall terminate if the commission determines that the utility is not in compliance with the approved plan.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 66 Pa.C.S.A. Public Utilities § 1352. Long-term infrastructure improvement plan - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-66-pacsa-public-utilities/pa-csa-sect-66-1352/
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