DIVISION 23
SERVICE STANDARDS
860-023-0000
Applicability of Division 023
The rules contained in this Division apply to energy utilities, large telecommunications utilities, telecommunications carriers, and intrastate toll service providers, as defined in OAR 860-023-0001.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756, 757 & 759
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040, 759.030, 759.040 & 759.045
Hist.: PUC 6-1993, f. & cert. ef. 2-19-93 (Order No. 93-185); PUC
14-1997, f. & cert. ef. 11-20-97; PUC 3-1999, f. & cert. ef.
8-10-99; PUC 14-2000, f. & cert. ef. 8-23-00; PUC 11-2001,
f. & cert. ef. 4-18-01; PUC 9-2005, f. & cert .ef.
12-23-05
860-023-0001
Definitions for Service Standards
For purposes of this Division, except when a different scope is explicitly stated:
(1) "Customer" means any person, firm, partnership, corporation, municipality, cooperative organization, governmental agency, or other legal entity that has applied for, been accepted for, or is currently receiving service from an energy utility, large telecommunications utility, or intrastate toll service provider.
(2) "Energy utility" means a public utility as defined in ORS 757.005 except a water utility or wastewater utility. An energy utility can be an "electric utility, "gas utility," or "steam heat utility."
(3) "Intrastate" means telecommunications service that originates and terminates in Oregon.
(4) "Intrastate toll service provider" means a telecommunications carrier that provides intrastate toll services to retail customers.
(5) "Large telecommunications utility" means any telecommunications utility, as defined in ORS 759.005, that is not partially exempt from regulation under 759.040.
(6) "Local exchange service" has the meaning given to "local exchange telecommunications service" in ORS 759.005(1)(c).
(7) "Telecommunications carrier" has the meaning provided in ORS 759.400(3).
(8) "Toll" has the meaning provided in ORS 759.005(h).
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183 & 756
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & 759.005
Hist.: PUC 2-1996, f. & cert. ef. 4-18-96 (Order No.
96-102); PUC 9-1998, f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98; PUC 16-2001, f.
& cert. ef. 6-21-01; PUC 7-2005, f. & cert. ef. 11-30-05; PUC
9-2005, f. & cert .ef. 12-23-05
860-023-0005
Maintenance of Plant and Equipment by Energy Utilities, Large Telecommunications Utilities, and Intrastate Toll Service Providers
Each energy utility, large telecommunications utility, and intrastate toll service provider must have and maintain its entire plant and system in such condition that it will furnish safe, adequate, and reasonably continuous service. Each energy utility, large telecommunications utility, and intrastate toll service provider must inspect its plant distribution system and facilities in such manner, and with such frequency, as may be needed to ensure a reasonably complete knowledge about its condition and adequacy at all times. Each energy utility, large telecommunications utility, and intrastate toll service provider must keep such records of the conditions found as the utility considers necessary to properly maintain its system, unless in special cases the Commission specifies a more complete record.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756, 757 & 759
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020 & 759.035
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98; PUC 16-2001, f. & cert. ef. 6-21-01;
PUC 13-2002, f. & cert. ef. 3-26-02; PUC 7-2005, f. & cert.
ef. 11-30-05; PUC 9-2005, f. & cert. ef. 12-23-05
860-023-0010
Use of Gas and Electric Meters
(1) Electrical energy sold by a utility shall be charged for by meter measurements, unless otherwise authorized by the Commission. All meter measurements for gas service shall be converted to a therm basis for billing purposes.
(2) Unless otherwise authorized by the Commission, each energy utility shall continue to own, maintain, and operate all equipment needed to regulate and measure electricity and gas to its customers. When the energy utility furnishes additional meters or relocates meters for the customer's convenience, the energy utility may make a reasonable charge for such meters in accordance with a schedule approved by the Commission.
(3) No energy utility shall charge for furnishing, installing, or maintaining any meter or other appliance for measurement purposes except by the Commission's permission, or as provided in OARs 860-021-0050(1) and 860-021-0055. The amount so paid shall be refunded to the customer by allowing him/her a credit of one-half of the monthly bill until the amount has been paid, provided such refund payments do not run for more than three years from the date when the refund began.
(4) No rental shall be charged by any energy utility for any meter or appliance installed by it, which the energy utility uses as a basis for the rendering of bills, except when an additional meter or appliance may be requested by the customer for his/her convenience.
(5) The energy utility shall have the right to set meters or other devices for detecting and preventing fraud or waste, without notifying the customer.
(6) No energy utility shall use prepayment meters except in special cases or for clearly defined special classes of service authorized by the Commission.
(7) If damage results to the meter from molesting or willful neglect by the customer, the energy utility shall repair or replace the meter and it may bill the customer for the cost.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.250
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 13-1997,
f. & cert. ef. 11-12-97; PUC 9-1998, f. & cert. ef.
4-28-98
860-023-0015
Testing Gas and Electric Meters
(1) All meters shall be tested before installation, or within 30 days thereafter. No meter will be placed in service or be allowed to remain in service which has an error in registration in excess of two percent under conditions of normal operation. These requirements may be waived by written agreement if the energy utility provides an approved random sampling technique for testing new meters.
(2) New meters, repaired meters, and meters that have been removed from service shall be correct to within two percent fast or slow before being installed or reinstalled.
(3) Each energy utility shall adopt schedules for periodic tests and repairs of meters. The length of time meters shall be allowed to remain in service before receiving periodic tests and repairs is to be determined from periodic analysis of the accuracy of meters tested. The schedules adopted shall be subject to the Commission's approval.
(4) Whenever any meter is tested, the energy utility shall prepare a test record, including the information needed for identifying the meter, the reason for making the test, the reading of the meter, the result of the test, and all data taken at the time of the test in sufficiently complete form to permit the convenient checking of methods employed. The energy utility shall retain the current and immediately prior test records for all meters tested.
(5) Each energy utility shall, unless specifically excluded by the Commission, provide such laboratory meter-testing equipment and other equipment and facilities as needed to make the tests required of it by these rules or other orders of the Commission. The apparatus and equipment so provided shall be subject to the Commission's approval.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.250
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 13-1997,
f. & cert. ef. 11-12-97; PUC 9-1998, f. & cert. ef.
4-28-98
860-023-0020
Quality of Electric Service
(1) Every electric company shall adopt a set of normal standard voltages at the point of delivery for the different classes of service in its service areas. The nominal standard voltages applicable to residential and commercial customers shall be specified in the tariffs filed by the electric company. Except as may be caused by the customer's operation of apparatus in violation of the electric company's rules, or by conditions beyond the electric company's control, every electric company shall maintain the adopted standard secondary voltages so the same shall not normally vary more than plus or minus 5 percent of the standard at the service entrance.
(2) Each electric company shall make a sufficient number of voltage surveys to indicate the service furnished is in compliance with the standard as indicated under section (1) of this rule.
(3) Each electric company shall keep a complete record of each test of voltage and service conditions, as made under these rules, and this record shall be accessible to the Commission or its authorized representatives. Each record of tests of voltage or service conditions so kept shall contain complete information concerning the test, including such items as the Commission may from time to time require.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98; PUC 7-2005, f. & cert. ef.
11-30-05
860-023-0025
Purity of Gas
(1) All gas supplied to customers shall contain no more than .25 of one grain of hydrogen sulfide in each 100 cubic feet; 20 grains of sulphur in each 100 cubic feet (30 grains of sulphur in 100 cubic feet may be permitted if the gas utility shall show cause for such an exception in advance or immediately upon the discovery of exceptional conditions that warrant it); five grains of ammonia in each 100 cubic feet. No gas shall contain impurities which may cause excessive corrosion of mains or piping or form corrosive or harmful fumes when burned in a properly designed and adjusted burner.
(2) Tests:
(a) Each utility distributing manufactured gas, or a mixture of manufactured and other gas, shall test the gas for the presence of hydrogen sulfide at least once each day. Each utility distributing natural gas shall make hydrogen sulfide tests at such intervals as needed.
(b) Records of all tests shall be properly filed and shall be reported to the Commission for such periods and at such times as the Commission shall request.
(3) Manufactured and mixed gas shall be tested at least once each month for the presence of total sulphur and ammonia. Approved methods of testing shall be used. Record of all tests shall be preserved as specified by the Commission.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0030
Change in Character of Service
(1) Any change in the heating value or the characteristics of the gas service which may impair the safe, efficient use of the gas in the customer's appliances shall not be made without the Commission's approval and without adequate notice to the customers. In such event, the gas utility shall make any necessary adjustments to the customer's appliances without charge and shall conduct the adjustment program with a minimum of inconvenience to the customers.
(2) No changes of standard shall take effect and no expenditure shall be incurred to alter plant or equipment for the purpose of supplying gas under the proposed standard until the Commission has approved the change of standard or until 30 days after notification, data, and schedules required by this rule have been transmitted to the Commission. The provisions of this rule shall not be interpreted as forbidding expenditure for engineering services or experimental or development work needed to determine the character and cost of the proposed changes.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0035
Pressure Testing and Maintenance
(1) Each gas utility shall make every reasonable effort needed to maintain adequate gas pressure. Each gas utility shall make such determinations and keep such records of pressures as will enable it to have at all times a substantially accurate knowledge of the pressure existing in every part of its distributing system. The pressure records shall be properly identified, dated and filed.
(2) All recording pressure gauges shall be tested periodically and maintained in an accurate condition.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0040
Testing Equipment and Facilities
(1) Each gas utility shall own and maintain or have access to all testing equipment needed to make all tests of the gas required by the Commission. The Commission may approve arrangements for the gas utility to have any part of its testing done by another utility or competent party.
(2) All testing equipment shall be of an approved type, properly maintained, and subject to the Commission's inspection and approval. All equipment shall be open to use of qualified representatives of the Commission at any time for testing the gas distributed by the utility.
(3) Testing equipment shall be so located and used that the sample of gas tested shall typify the gas being distributed in the system.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.250
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0045
Heating Value
(1) Each gas utility shall file with the Commission, as part of its schedules of rates or rules and regulations, the average total heating value of the gas and the indicated maximum expected fluctuation above and below the average total heating value which may be expected of a gas supplied by it in each district, division, or community served.
(2) In maintaining the established heating value, the chemical composition, and specific gravity shall be such as to attain satisfactory combustion in the customer's appliances at all times without repeated readjustment of the burners.
(3) When supplemental or substitute gas is distributed by a utility, the gas quality shall be such that the usage performance will be satisfactory, regardless of the heating value of the gas.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0050
Heating Value Tests -- Records and Reports
(1) Each gas utility shall test the heating value of manufactured or mixed gas being furnished to the distribution system at least once a day except Sundays and holidays. Original test data shall be recorded on the gas utility's standard forms and preserved for at least three years.
(2) Each gas utility supplying natural gas shall make sufficient tests, or have access to such tests made by its suppliers, to maintain the established heating value.
(3) These tests shall be made at a location, or locations, which will ensure a representative sampling of gas being sent out to the distribution systems. A monthly summary shall be made from these tests.
(4) The variation permitted from the established total heating value shall not exceed an amount consistent with normal satisfactory appliance operation.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, ORS
756 & ORS 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040 & ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order 74-307); PUC 9-1998,
f. & cert. ef. 4-28-98
860-023-0054
Retail Intrastate Toll Service Provider Service Standards
Every intrastate toll service provider must adhere to the following standards:
(1) Measurement and Reporting Requirement. Each intrastate toll service provider must take the measurements required by this rule and report them to the Commission as specified.
(2) Additional Reporting Requirements. The Commission may require a telecommunications carrier to provide additional reports on any item covered by this rule.
(3) Blocked Calls. An intrastate toll service provider must engineer and maintain all intraoffice, interoffice, and access trunking and associated switching components to allow completion of all properly dialed calls made during the average busy season busy hour without encountering blockage or equipment irregularities in excess of the Commission-approved service levels listed in subsection (b) of this section, or alternatively, provide the level of service specified by the intrastate toll service provider in accordance with ORS 759.020(6).
(a) Measurement:
(A) An intrastate toll service provider must collect traffic data; that is, peg counts and usage data generated by individual components of equipment or by the wire center as a whole, and calculate blockage levels of the interoffice final trunk groups;
(B) System blockage will be determined by special testing at the wire center. Commission Staff or a carrier technician will place test calls to a predetermined test number, and the total number of attempted calls and the number of completed calls will be counted. The percent of completion of the calls shall be calculated.
(b) Commission-Approved Service Level:
(A) An intrastate toll service provider must maintain interoffice final trunk groups to allow 99 percent completion of calls during the average busy season busy hour without blockage (P01 grade of service);
(B) An intrastate toll service provider must maintain its network operation so that 99 percent of the calls do not experience blockage during any normal busy hour. If a final trunk group provisioned by an intrastate toll service provider exceeds the blockage standard specified herein for four consecutive months, the trunk group will be considered in violation of this standard.
(c) Reporting Requirement: In accordance with ORS 759.020(6), each intrastate toll service provider must inform customers of the service level furnished by the carrier. Each provider must also identify the service level it plans to furnish in its annual report filed with the Commission. An intrastate toll service provider must file a switching system blockage report after a Commission-directed switching-system blockage test is completed.
(d) Retention Requirement: Each intrastate toll service provider must maintain records for one year.
(4) Special Service Lines. All special service access lines must meet the performance requirements specified in applicable intrastate toll service provider tariffs or contracts.
(5) An intrastate toll service provider connected to the facilities of other telecommunications carriers as defined in ORS 759.400(3) shall operate its system in a manner that will not impede a telecommunications carrier's or intrastate toll service provider's ability to meet required standards of service. A telecommunications carrier or intrastate toll service provider shall report interconnection operational problems promptly to the Commission.
(6) Alternatives to These Telecommunications Standards. An intrastate toll service provider whose normal methods of operation do not provide for exact compliance with these rules may file for a variance from, or waiver of, one or more of these rules, if it specifically indicates the alternative standards to be applied, or indicates which standards would be waived.
(7) Remedies for Violation of This Standard:
(a) If a telecommunications carrier subject to this rule violates one or more of its service standards, the Commission must require the intrastate toll service provider to submit a plan for improving performance as provided in ORS 759.450(5). If an intrastate toll carrier does not meet the goals of its improvement plan within six months, or if the plan is disapproved by the Commission, penalties may be assessed in accordance with 759.450(5) through (7).
(b) In addition to the remedy provided under ORS 759.450(5), if the Commission believes that an intrastate toll service provider subject to this rule has violated one or more of its service standards, the Commission shall give the intrastate toll service provider notice and an opportunity to request a hearing. If the Commission finds a violation has occurred, the Commission may require the intrastate toll service provider to provide the following relief to the affected customers:
(A) Customer billing credits equal to the associated nonrecurring and recurring charges of the intrastate toll service provider for the affected service for the period of the violation; or
(B) Other relief authorized by Oregon law.
(8) Exemption from these rules:
(a) An intrastate toll service provider may petition the Commission for an exemption, in whole or in part, from these rules.
(b) The Commission may grant an exemption including, but not limited to, the following circumstance: If the Commission determines that effective competition exists in one or more exchange, it may exempt all telecommunications carriers providing telecommunications services in those exchanges from the requirements of this rule, in whole or in part. In making this determination, the Commission must consider:
(A) The extent to which the service is available from alternative providers in the relevant exchange(s);
(B) The extent to which the services of alternative providers are functionally equivalent or substitutable at comparable rates, terms, and conditions;
(C) Existing barriers to market entry;
(D) Market share and concentration;
(E) Price to cost ratios;
(F) Number of suppliers;
(G) Price demand side substitutability (for example, customer perceptions of competitors as viable alternatives); and
(H) Any other factors deemed relevant by the Commission.
(c) When a telecommunications carrier or intrastate toll service provider petitions the Commission for exemption under this provision, the Commission must provide notice of the petition to all relevant telecommunications carriers providing the applicable service(s) in the exchange(s) in question. Such notified telecommunications carriers will be provided an opportunity to submit comments in response to the petition. The comments may include requests that, following the Commission's analysis outlined above in Section 8(b)(A) through (H), the commenting telecommunications carrier be exempt from these rules for the applicable service(s) in the relevant exchange(s).
(d) For purposes of this rule, if a final trunk group provisioned by an intrastate toll provider exceeds the blockage standard specified by the provider for four consecutive months, that trunk group will be considered in violation of the provider's service standard.
[Publications: Publications referenced are available from the agency.]
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 759
Stats. Implemented: ORS 756.040, 759.020, 759.030, 759.050 &
759.450
Hist.: PUC 9-2005, f. & cert .ef. 12-23-05; PUC 10-2006, f. &
cert. ef. 10-12-06
860-023-0055
Retail Telecommunications Service Standards for Large Telecommunications Utilities
Every large telecommunications utility must adhere to the following standards:
(1) Definitions.
(a) "Access Line" -- A facility engineered with dialing capability to provide retail telecommunications service that connects a customer's service location to the Public Switched Telephone Network;
(b) "Average Busy Season Busy Hour" -- The hour that has the highest average traffic for the three highest months, not necessarily consecutive, in a 12-month period. The busy hour traffic averaged across the busy season is termed the average busy season busy hour traffic;
(c) "Average Speed of Answer" -- The average time that elapses between the time the call is directed to a representative and the time it is answered;
(d) "Blocked Call" -- A properly dialed call that fails to complete to its intended destination except for a normal busy (60 interruptions per minute);
(e) "Customer" -- Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, municipality, cooperative, organization, governmental agency, or other legal entity that has applied for, been accepted, and is currently receiving local exchange telecommunications service;
(f) "Exchange" -- Geographic area defined by maps filed with and approved by the Commission for the provision of local exchange telecommunications service;
(g) "Final Trunk Group" -- A last-choice trunk group that receives overflow traffic and that may receive first-route traffic for which there is no alternative route;
(h) "Force Majeure"-- Circumstances beyond the reasonable control of a large telecommunications utility, including but not limited to, delays caused by:
(A) A vendor in the delivery of equipment, where the large telecommunications utility has made a timely order of equipment;
(B) Local, state, federal, or tribal government authorities in approving easements or access to rights of way, where the large telecommunications utility has made a timely application for such approval;
(C) The customer, including but not limited to, the customer's construction project or lack of facilities, or failure to provide access to the customer's premises;
(D) Uncontrollable events, such as explosion, fire, floods, frozen ground, tornadoes, severe weather, epidemics, injunctions, wars, acts of terrorism, strikes or work stoppages, and negligent or willful misconduct by customers or third parties, including but not limited to, outages originating from introduction of a virus onto the provider's network;
(i) "Held Order for Lack of Facilities" -- Request for access line service delayed beyond the initial commitment date due to lack of facilities. An access line service order includes an order for new service, transferred service, additional lines, or change of service;
(j) "Initial Commitment Date" -- The initial date pledged by the large telecommunications utility to provide a service, facility, or repair action. This date is within the minimum time set forth in these rules or a date determined by good faith negotiations between the customer and the large telecommunications utility;
(k) "Network Interface" -- The point of interconnection between the large telecommunications utility's communications facilities and customer terminal equipment, protective apparatus, or wiring at a customer's premises. The network interface must be located on the customer's side of the large telecommunications utility's protector;
(l) "Retail Telecommunications Service" -- A telecommunications service provided for a fee to customers. Retail telecommunications service does not include a service provided by a large telecommunications utility to another telecommunications utility or competitive telecommunications provider, unless the telecommunications utility or competitive telecommunications provider receiving the service is the end user of the service;
(m) "Tariff" -- A schedule showing rates, tolls, and charges that the large telecommunications utility has established for a retail service;
(n) "Trouble Report" -- A report of a malfunction that affects the functionality and reliability of retail telecommunications service on existing access lines, switching equipment, circuits, or features made up to and including the network interface, to a large telecommunications utility by or on behalf of that large telecommunications utility's customer;
(o) "Wire Center" -- A facility where local telephone subscribers' access lines converge and are connected to switching equipment that provides access to the Public Switched Telephone Network, including remote switching units and host switching units. A wire center does not include collocation arrangements in a connecting large telecommunications utility's wire center or broadband hubs that have no switching equipment.
(2) Measurement and Reporting Requirements. A large telecommunications utility must take the measurements required by this rule and report them to the Commission as specified. Reported measurements must be reported to the first significant digit (i.e., one number should be reported to the right of the decimal point). The service quality objective service levels set forth in sections 4 through 8 of this rule apply only to normal operating conditions and do not establish a level of performance to be achieved during force majeure events.
(3) Additional Reporting Requirements. The Commission may require a large telecommunications utility to submit additional reports on any item covered by this rule.
(4) Provisioning and Held Orders for Lack of Facilities. The representative of the large telecommunications utility must give a retail customer an initial commitment date of not more than six business days after a request for access line service, unless a later date is determined through good faith negotiations between the customer and the large telecommunications utility. The large telecommunications utility may change the initial commitment date only if requested by the customer. When establishing the initial commitment date, the large telecommunications utility may take into account the actual time required for the customer to meet prerequisites; e.g., line extension charges or trench and conduit requirements. If a request for service becomes a held order for lack of facilities, the serving large telecommunications utility must, within five business days, send or otherwise provide the customer a written commitment to fill the order.
(a) Measurement:
(A) Commitments Met -- A large telecommunications utility must calculate the monthly percentage of commitments met for service, based on the initial commitment date, across its Oregon service territory. Commitments missed for reasons solely attributed to customers, another telecommunications utility or a competitive telecommunications provider may be excluded from the calculation of the "commitments met" results;
(B) Held Orders for Lack of Facilities -- A large telecommunications utility must determine the total monthly number of held orders, due to lack of facilities, not completed by the initial commitment date during the reporting month and the number of primary (initial access line) held orders, due to lack of facilities, over 30 days past the initial commitment date.
(b) Objective Service Level:
(A) Commitments Met -- Each large telecommunications utility must meet at least 90 percent of its commitments for service;
(B) Held Orders:
(i) The number of held orders for the lack of facilities for each large telecommunications utility must not exceed the larger of two per wire center per month averaged over the large telecommunications utility's Oregon service territory, or five held orders for lack of facilities per 1,000 inward orders;
(ii) The total number of primary held orders for lack of facilities in excess of 30 days past the initial commitment date must not exceed 10 percent of the total monthly held orders for lack of facilities within the large telecommunications utility's Oregon service territory.
(c) Reporting Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission the percentage of commitments met for service, total number of held orders for lack of facilities, and the total number of primary held orders for lack of facilities over 30 days past the initial commitment date.
(d) Retention Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must maintain records about held orders for lack of facilities for one year. The record must explain why each order is held and the initial commitment date.
(5) Trouble Reports. Each large telecommunications utility must maintain an accurate record of all reports of malfunction made by its customers.
(a) Measurement: A large telecommunications utility must determine the number of customer trouble reports that were received during the month. The large telecommunications utility must relate the count to the total working access lines within a reporting wire center. A large telecommunications utility need not report those trouble reports that were caused by circumstances beyond its control. The approved trouble report exclusions are:
(A) Cable Cuts: A large telecommunications utility may take an exclusion if the "buried cable location" (locate) was either not requested or was requested and was accurate. If a large telecommunications utility or the utility's contractor caused the cut, the exclusion can only be used if the locate was accurate and all general industry practices were followed;
(B) Internet Service Provider (ISP) Blockage: If an ISP does not have enough access trunks to handle peak traffic;
(C) Modem Speed Complaints: An exclusion may be taken if the copper cable loop is tested at the subscriber location and the objective service levels in section 10 of this rule were met;
(D) No Trouble Found: Where no trouble is found, one exemption may be taken. If a repeat report of the same trouble is received within a 30-day period, the repeat report and subsequent reports must be counted;
(E) New Feature or Service: Trouble reports related to a customer's unfamiliarity with the use or operation of a new (within 30 days) feature or service;
(F) No Access: An exclusion may be taken if a repair appointment was kept and the copper based access line at the nearest accessible terminal met the objective service levels in section 10 of this rule. If a repeat trouble report is received within the following 30-day period, the repeat report and subsequent reports must be counted;
(G) Subsequent Tickets/Same Trouble/Same Access Line: Only one trouble report for a specific complaint for the same access line should be counted within a 48-hour period. All repeat trouble reports after the 48-hour period must be counted;
(H) Non-Regulated or Deregulated Equipment: Trouble associated with such equipment should not be counted;
(I) Trouble with Other Telecommunications Utilities or Competitive Telecommunications Providers: A trouble report caused solely by another telecommunications utility or competitive telecommunications provider;
(J) Lightning Strikes: Trouble reports received for damage caused by lightning strikes can be excluded if all accepted grounding, bonding, and shielding practices were followed by the large telecommunications utility at the damaged location; and
(K) Other exclusions: As approved by the Commission.
(b) Objective Service Level: A large telecommunications utility must maintain service so that the monthly trouble report rate, after approved trouble report exclusions, does not exceed:
(A) For wire centers with more than 1,000 access lines: two per 100 working access lines per wire center more than three times during a sliding 12-month period.
(B) For wire centers with 1,000 or less access lines: three per 100 working access lines per wire center more than three times during a sliding 12-month period.
(c) Reporting Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission:
(A) The trouble report rate by wire center;
(B) The reason(s) a wire center meeting the standard (did not exceed the trouble report rate threshold for more than three of the last 12 months) exceeded a trouble report rate of 3.0 per 100 working access lines during the reporting month;
(C) The reason(s) a wire center not meeting the standard, after the exclusion adjustment, exceeded the trouble report rate threshold per 100 access lines during the reporting month; and
(D) The access line count for each wire center.
(d) Retention Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must maintain a record of reported trouble in such a manner that it can be forwarded to the Commission upon the Commission's request. The large telecommunications utility must keep all records for a period of one year. The record of reported trouble must contain as a minimum the:
(A) Telephone number;
(B) Date and time received;
(C) Time cleared;
(D) Type of trouble reported;
(E) Location of trouble; and
(F) Whether or not the present trouble was within 30 days of a previous trouble report.
(6) Repair Clearing Time. This standard establishes the clearing time for all trouble reports from the time the customer reports the trouble to the large telecommunications utility until the trouble is resolved. The large telecommunications utility must provide each customer making a network trouble report with a commitment time when the large telecommunications utility will repair or resolve the problem.
(a) Measurement: A large telecommunications utility must calculate the percentage of trouble reports cleared within 48 hours for each repair center.
(b) Objective Service Level: A large telecommunications utility must monthly clear at least 95 percent of all trouble reports within 48 hours of receiving a report.
(c) Reporting Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission the percentage of trouble reports cleared within 48 hours by each repair center.
(d) Retention Requirement: None.
(7) Blocked Calls. A large telecommunications utility must engineer and maintain all intraoffice, interoffice, and access trunking and associated switching components to allow completion of calls made during the average busy season busy hour without encountering blockage or equipment irregularities in excess of levels listed in subsection (7)(b) of this rule.
(a) Measurement:
(A) A large telecommunications utility must collect traffic data; i.e., peg counts and usage data generated by individual components of equipment or by the wire center as a whole, and calculate blockage levels of the interoffice final trunk groups;
(B) System blockage is determined by special testing at the wire center. Commission Staff or a telecommunications utility technician will place test calls to a predetermined test number, and the total number of attempted calls and the number of completed calls will be counted. The percentage of calls completed must be calculated.
(b) Objective Service Level:
(A) A large telecommunications utility must maintain interoffice final trunk groups to allow 99 percent completion of calls during the average busy season busy hour without blockage (P.01 grade of service);
(B) A large telecommunications utility must maintain its switch operation so that 99 percent of the calls do not experience blockage during the normal busy hour.
(C) When a large telecommunications utility fails to maintain the interoffice final trunk group P.01 grade of service for four or more consecutive months, it will be considered out-of-standard until the condition is resolved. A single repeat blockage within two months of restoring the P.01 grade of service will be considered a continuation of the original blockage.
(c) Reporting Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission:
(A) Local and extended area service (EAS) final trunk groups that do not meet the objective service level for trunk group blockage, measured from each of its switches, regardless of the ownership of the terminating switch;
(B) Its tandem switch final trunk group blockages associated with EAS traffic;
(C) Any known cause for the blockage and actions to bring the trunks into standard; and
(D) Identity of the telecommunications utility or competitive telecommunications provider, if other than the reporting large telecommunications utility, responsible for maintaining those final trunk groups not meeting the standard.
(d) Retention Requirement: Each large telecommunications utility must maintain records for one year.
(8) Access to Large Telecommunications Utility Representatives. This rule sets the allowed time for large telecommunications utility business office or repair service center representatives to answer customer calls.
(a) Measurement:
(A) Direct Representative Answering: A large telecommunications utility must measure the answer time from the first ring at the large telecommunications utility business office or repair service center;
(B) Driven, Automated, or Interactive Answering System: The option of transferring to the large telecommunications utility representative must be included in the initial local service-screening message. The large telecommunications utility must measure the answering time from the point a call is directed to its representatives; e.g., when the call leaves the Voice Response Unit;
(C) Each large telecommunications utility must calculate:
(i) The monthly percentage of the total calls placed to the business office and repair service center and the number of calls answered by representatives within 20 seconds; or
(ii) The average speed of answer time for the total calls received by the business office and repair service center.
(b) Objective Service Level:
(A) No more than 1 percent of calls to the large telecommunications utility business office or repair service center may encounter a busy signal; and
(B) The large telecommunications utility representatives must answer at least 80 percent of calls within 20 seconds or have an average speed of answer time of 50 seconds or less.
(c) Reporting Requirement:
(A) Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission an exception report if busy signals were encountered in excess of 1 percent for either the business office or repair service center; and
(B) Each large telecommunications utility must report monthly to the Commission the percentage of calls answered within 20 seconds or the average speed of answer time for both the business office and repair service center. Once a method of measurement is reported by the provider, that method can only be changed with permission of the Commission.
(d) Retention Requirement: None.
(9) Interruption of Service Notification. A large telecommunications utility must report significant outages that affect customer service. These interruptions could be caused by switch outage, electronic outage, cable cut, or construction.
(a) Measurement: A large telecommunications utility must notify the Commission when an interruption occurs that exceeds the following thresholds:
(A) Cable cuts, excluding service wires and wires placed in lieu of cable, or electronic outages lasting longer than 30 minutes and affecting 50 percent or more of in-service lines.
(B) Toll or Extended Area Service isolation lasting longer than 30 minutes and affecting 50 percent or more of in-service lines.
(C) Isolation of a central office (host or remote) from the E 9-1-1 emergency dialing code or isolation of a Public Safety Answering Position (PSAP).
(D) Isolation of a wire center for more than 15 minutes.
(E) Outage of the business office or repair center access system lasting longer than 15 minutes in those instances where the traffic cannot be re-routed to a different center.
(b) Objective Service Level: Not applicable.
(c) Reporting Requirement: A large telecommunications utility must report service interruptions to the Commission engineering staff by telephone, by facsimile, by electronic mail, or personally within two hours during normal work hours of the business day after the company becomes aware of such interruption of service. Interim reports will be given to the Commission as significant information changes (e.g., estimated time to restore, estimated impact to customers, cause of the interruption, etc.) until it is reported that the affected service is restored.
(d) Retention Requirement: None.
(10) Customer Access Line Testing. All customer access lines must be designed, installed, and maintained to meet the levels in subsection (b) of this section.
(a) Measurement: Each large telecommunications utility must make all loop parameter measurements at the network interface, or as close as access allows.
(b) Objective Service Level: Each access line must meet the following levels:
(A) Loop Current: The serving wire center loop current, when terminated into a 400-ohm load, must be at least 20 milliamperes;
(B) Loop Loss: The maximum loop loss, as measured with a 1004-hertz tone from the serving wire center, must not exceed 8.5 decibels (dB);
(C) Metallic Noise: The maximum metallic noise level, as measured on a quiet line from the serving wire center, must not exceed 20 decibels above referenced noise level -- C message weighting (dBrnC);
(D) Power Influence: As a goal, power influence, as measured on a quiet line from the serving wire center, must not exceed 80 dBrnC.
(c) Reporting Requirement: A large telecommunications utility must report measurement readings as directed by the Commission.
(d) Retention Requirement: None.
(11) Customer Access Lines and Wire Center Switching Equipment. All combinations of access lines and wire center switching equipment must be capable of accepting and correctly processing at least the following network control signals from the customer premises equipment. The wire center must provide dial tone and maintain an actual measured loss between interoffice and access trunk groups.
(a) Measurement: Each large telecommunications utility must make measurements at or to the serving wire center.
(b) Objective Service Level:
(A) Dial Tone Speed. Ninety-eight percent of originating average busy hour call attempts must receive dial tone within three seconds;
(B) A large telecommunications utility must maintain all interoffice and access trunk groups so that the actual measured loss (AML) in no more than 30 percent of the trunks deviates from the expected measured loss (EML) by more than 0.7 dB and no more than 4.5 percent of the trunks deviates from EML by more than 1.7 dB.
(c) Reporting Requirement: None.
(d) Retention Requirement: None.
(12) Special Service Access Lines. All special service access lines must meet the performance requirements specified in applicable large telecommunications utility tariffs or contracts.
(13) Large Telecommunications Utility Interconnectivity. A large telecommunications utility connected to the facilities of another telecommunications utility or competitive telecommunications provider must operate its system in a manner that will not impede either company's ability to meet required standards of service. A large telecommunications utility must report interconnection operational problems promptly to the Commission.
(14) Alternatives to These Telecommunications Standards. A large telecommunications utility whose normal methods of operation do not provide for exact compliance with these rules may file for a variance from, or waiver of, one or more of these rules if it specifically indicates the alternative standards to be applied or indicates which standards would be waived.
(15) Remedies for Violation of This Standard.
(a) If a large telecommunications utility subject to this rule fails to meet a minimum service quality standard, the Commission must require the large telecommunications utility to submit a plan for improving performance as provided in ORS 759.450(5). If a large telecommunications utility does not meet the goals of its improvement plan within six months, or if the plan is disapproved by the Commission, the Commission may assess penalties in accordance with ORS 759.450(5) through (7).
(b) In addition to the remedy provided under ORS 759.450(5), if the Commission believes that a large telecommunications utility subject to this rule has violated one or more of its service standards, the Commission must give the large telecommunications utility notice and an opportunity to request a hearing. If the Commission finds a violation has occurred, the Commission may require the large telecommunications utility to provide the following relief to the affected customers:
(A) An alternative means of telecommunications service for violations of paragraph (4)(b)(B) of this rule;
(B) Customer billing credits equal to the associated non-recurring and recurring charges of the large telecommunications utility for the affected service for the period of the violation; and
(C) Other relief authorized by Oregon law.
(16) Exemption From These Rules.
(a) A large telecommunications utility may petition the Commission for an exemption, in whole or in part, from these rules.
(b) The Commission may grant an exemption, including but not limited to, the following circumstance: If the Commission determines that effective competition exists in one or more exchange(s), it may exempt all telecommunications utilities and competitive telecommunications providers providing telecommunications services in the exchange(s) from the requirements of this rule, in whole or in part. In making this determination, the Commission will consider:
(A) The extent to which the service is available from alternative providers in the relevant exchange(s);
(B) The extent to which the services of alternative providers are functionally equivalent or substitutable at comparable rates, terms, and conditions;
(C) Existing barriers to market entry;
(D) Market share and concentration;
(E) Number of suppliers;
(F) Price to cost ratios;
(G) Demand side substitutability (e.g., customer perceptions of competitors as viable alternatives); and
(H) Any other factors deemed relevant by the Commission.
(c) When a large telecommunications utility petitions the Commission for exemption under this provision, the Commission must provide notice of the petition to all relevant telecommunications utilities and competitive telecommunications providers providing the applicable service(s) in the exchange(s) in question. The Commission will provide such notified telecommunications utilities and competitive telecommunications providers an opportunity to submit comments in response to the petition. The comments may include requests that, following the Commission's analysis outlined above in paragraphs (16)(b)(A) through (H), the commenting telecommunications utilities and competitive telecommunications providers be exempt from these rules for the applicable service(s) in the relevant exchange(s).
(d) The Commission may grant a large telecommunications utility's petition for an exemption from service quality reporting requirements if the large telecommunications utility meets all service quality objective service levels set forth in sections (4) through (8) of this rule for the 12 months prior to the month in which the petition is filed.
[Publications: Publications referenced are available from the agency]
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 759
Stats. Implemented:ORS 756.040, 759.020, 759.030 & 759.050
Hist.: PUC 164, f. 4-18-74, ef. 5-11-74 (Order No. 74-307); PUC
23-1985, f. & ef. 12-11-85 (Order No. 85-1171); PUC 1-1997, f.
& ef. 1-7-97 (Order No. 96-332); PUC 13-2000, f. & cert.
ef. 6-9-00; PUC 13-2001, f. & cert. ef. 5-25-01; PUC 7-2002, f.
& cert. ef. 2-26-02; PUC 10-2005, f. & cert. ef. 12-27-05
860-023-0080
Definitions for Electric Service Reliability
The following terms apply to OAR 860-023-0090 through 860-023-0160:
(1) "Electric company" means a public utility, as defined in ORS 757.005, that supplies electricity.
(2) "Interruption duration" means the period (measured in seconds, minutes, or hours) from the initiation of an interruption to a metering point until service has been restored to that metering point.
(3) "Interruption, momentary" means a single interruption with a duration limited to five minutes.
(4) "Interruption event, momentary" means:
(a) A momentary interruption; or
(b) A series of momentary interruptions that is restored by an automatic interruption device, is limited to a single relay sequence, and does not exceed five minutes, such as when an auto-reclose breaker operates two or more times in a single relay sequence and then holds.
(5) "Interruption, sustained" means an interruption with a duration greater than five minutes.
(6) "Interruption" means the loss of service to one or more metering points.
(7) "Loss of service" means a complete loss of voltage to one or more metering points, but does not include power quality issues such as transients, sags, swells, flickers, harmonics, and other waveform distortions.
(8) "MAIFE" means momentary average interruption event frequency index. This index is the number of times that a metering point experiences momentary interruption events during a year. It is determined by dividing the total annual number of metering point momentary interruption events by the total number of metering points. Note that this index does not include the events immediately preceding a sustained interruption.
(9) "Major event" means a catastrophic event that:
(a) Exceeds the design limits of the electric power system;
(b) Causes extensive damage to the electric power system; and
(c) Results in a simultaneous sustained interruption to more than 10 percent of the metering points in an operating area.
(10) "Metering point" means an electric point of service to a customer where there is a meter and for which an electric company renders a bill.
(11) "Metering points, total number of" means the number of metering points as of the last day of the calendar year.
(12) "Operating area" means a geographic subdivision of an electric company's Oregon service territory that functions under the direction of an electric company office and as a separate entity used for reliability reporting. These areas may also be referred to as regions, divisions, or districts.
(13) "Reliability" means the degree that electric service is supplied without interruptions.
(14) "SAIDI" means system average interruption duration index. This is the sustained interruption duration time (in hours) that an average metering point experiences during the year. It is determined by dividing the annual sum of all metering point sustained interruption durations by the total number of metering points.
(15) "SAIFI" means system average sustained interruption frequency index. This index is the number of times that an average metering point receives sustained interruptions during a year. It is determined by dividing the total annual number of sustained interruptions by the total number of metering points.
(16) "System-wide" means pertaining to and limited to the electric company's metering points in Oregon.
(17) "Threshold" means a performance level, excluding major events, that requires appropriate electric company action.
(18) "Underperforming circuit" means a circuit characterized by substandard performance. A circuit has this designation if it has a SAIDI, SAIFI, or MAIFIE index that exceeds its designated threshold level.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0090
Electric Service Continuity
(1) An electric company shall use reasonable means in design, operations, and maintenance to ensure reliable service to each customer. Such means shall include, but not be limited to, programs to prevent service interruptions.
(2) An electric company shall have a program with written standards and written schedules to maintain appropriate reliability levels.
(3) When interruptions occur, each electric company shall reestablish service with the shortest possible delay consistent with the safety of its employees, customers, and the general public.
(4) An electric company shall have a program for analyzing, and where appropriate, for correcting underperforming circuits.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0100
Electric Interruption Records
(1) Except as provided in section (3) of this rule, an electric company shall keep an accurate record of each interruption of service that affects one or more customers. Each record shall contain at least the following information:
(a) The operating area where the interruption occurred;
(b) The name of the substation involved;
(c) The name of the circuit involved;
(d) The date and time the interruption occurred (if the exact time is unknown, the beginning of an interruption is recorded as the earlier of an automatic alarm or the reported initiation time);
(e) The date and time service was restored;
(f) The duration of the interruption;
(g) The number of metering points affected by the interruption;
(h) The cause of the interruption;
(i) The weather conditions at the time of the interruption;
(j) Whether the interruption was planned or unplanned;
(k) The protective device that made the interruption; and
(l) The component involved (e.g., transmission line, substation, overhead primary main, underground primary main, transformer, etc.).
(2) For interruptions where customers are not simultaneously restored, an electric company shall keep records that document the step-restoration operations.
(3) For major events where an electric company cannot obtain accurate data, the electric company shall make reasonable estimates.
(4) An electric company shall retain for ten years the records associated with sections (1) and (2) of this rule.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0110
Electric Reliability Calculations
(1) Except as provided in section (3) of this rule, an electric company at year-end shall calculate SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE indices, with and without major events:
(a) On a system-wide basis;
(b) For each operating area; and
(c) For each circuit.
(2) Data included in the above calculations shall include all interruptions associated with or related to high voltage components (above 600 volts).
(3) For each circuit an electric company shall be required to calculate only indices with major events excluded.
(4) If an electric company estimates MAIFIE, it shall specify the method that it used for making the estimate.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0120
Electric Threshold Levels
(1) An electric company shall establish threshold levels for SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE for system-wide operations, each operating area, and each circuit. The Commission recommends that the following factors be used to guide the setting of the levels:
(a) Past reliability information;
(b) Demographic, geographic, and electrical characteristics; and
(c) The relative performance of the circuits to each other.
(2) An electric company shall file with the Commission its threshold values and any revision to the values.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0130
Customer Inquiries about Electric Reliability
(1) A customer may request a report from an electric company about the service reliability of the circuit supplying the customer's own meter. Within 20 working days, the electric company shall supply the report to the customer at no cost. However, if a customer requests an additional reliability report for the same meter within one year of the date of the first request, the electric company may require a deposit from the customer to recover the cost of the report. The electric company shall return the deposit if the additional report indicates that the circuit has become an underperforming circuit, with major events excluded.
(2) The report shall include:
(a) The name of the customer;
(b) The date of the request;
(c) The address where the meter is installed;
(d) The meter number involved;
(e) The circuit involved; and
(f) A chronological listing, covering at least 36 months up to the date of the request, of all interruption data as required by OAR 860-023-0100 affecting the customer's meter, stating the beginning time, date, duration, and cause for each interruption.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0140
Public Inquiries about Electric Reliability
Any person may request from an electric company a report about the service reliability for any circuit. The report shall be supplied to the person within 20 working days. A reasonable fee may be charged for each report.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0150
Annual Report on Electric Reliability
(1) On or before May 1 of each year, an electric company shall file with the Commission a report that includes reliability information pertaining to the previous calendar year. The electric company shall make copies available to the public upon request.
(2) In accordance with sections (3) and (4) of this rule, the report shall contain:
(a) SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE indices and thresholds compared to the most recent four years, both with and without major events:
(A) On a system-wide basis; and
(B) For each operating area.
(b) SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE indices and thresholds for each circuit, with major events excluded.
(c) A summary of the system-wide interruption causes compared to the previous four-year performance. Categories to be evaluated shall include:
(A) Adverse environment;
(B) Adverse weather;
(C) Customer equipment;
(D) Equipment failure;
(E) Foreign interference;
(F) Human element;
(G) Lightning;
(H) Loss of supply;
(I) Major events;
(J) Scheduled outages;
(K) Tree contacts;
(L) Unknown; and
(M) Other (if used, the electric company shall be specific as to the cause involved).
(d) A listing of the major events to impact the electric company along with the major event filings to the Commission as required in OAR 860-023-0160.
(3) An electric company shall present the SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE indices and thresholds in both a tabular and a graphical format. For the graphical format for circuits, an electric company shall compare the SAIDI, SAIFI, and MAIFIE indices for each circuit with other circuits in descending order of performance:
(a) On a system-wide basis; and
(b) On an operating-area basis.
(4) For historical information prior to January 1, 1998, the electric company shall provide the best information available.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
860-023-0160
Major Event Filing by Electric Utilities
Within 20 working days after a major event, an electric company shall submit a report to the Commission that includes:
(1) A description of the event;
(2) A discussion of why the electric company considers it to be a major event;
(3) The total number of metering points affected, the number of metering points without service at periodic intervals, and the longest service interruption;
(4) The number of crews assigned to restore service at periodic intervals;
(5) The estimated SAIDI and SAIFI impact to metering points on a system-wide and an operating-area basis;
(6) The damage cost estimates to the electric company's facilities;
(7) The reason timely restoration was beyond the electric company's control; and
(8) A listing of circuits that were affected with sustained interruptions lasting more than four hours.
Stat. Auth.: ORS 183, 756 & 757
Stats. Implemented: ORS 757.020
Hist.: PUC 16-1997, f. 12-11-97, cert. ef. 1-1-98; PUC 7-2005, f.
& cert. ef. 11-30-05
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