NY A10947

Service providers must submit emergency response plans annually to the Public Service Commission by December 15 for review and approval.

Emergency response plans must include management staff identification, customer communication systems, outreach to customers with medical or critical infrastructure needs, mutual aid crew deployment procedures, equipment procurement plans, annual drills, downed wire safety procedures, and other requirements the commission deems necessary.

The Public Service Commission may require plan amendments, open investigations into plan sufficiency, and deny cost recovery for service restoration if a provider fails to reasonably implement its emergency response plan or causes materially longer outages through such failure.

Service providers must file a report within 60 days if electric service is not restored within three days of an emergency event, and department recommendations must be forwarded to the Public Service Commission.

Authority and service provider must file the most recent approved emergency response plan with county executives of Nassau and Suffolk counties and the mayor of New York City.