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PA Bulletin, Doc. No. 00-424

PROPOSED RULEMAKING

PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION

[52 PA. CODE CH. 63]

[30 Pa.B. 1379]

[L-00990141]

Competitive Safeguards for Telecommunications Utilities

   By Order entered November 30, 1999, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (Commission) adopted a proposed rulemaking establishing competitive safeguards in further of the provisions of Chapter 30 of the Public Utility Code, 66 Pa.C.S. §§ 3001--3009. The Proposed Rulemaking Order relating to 52 Pa. Code Chapter 63 requires that comments be filed within 30 days of publication which occurred on January 29, 2000, at 30 Pa.B. 539. Comments, therefore, were due February 28, 2000.

   On February 23, 2000, the Pennsylvania Telephone Association (PTA) filed a letter with the Commission requesting that the comment period by stayed until further notice. By letter dated February 24, 2000, ALLTEL Pennsylvania, Inc. (ALLTEL) joined in this request for a stay. In making this request, the PTA and ALLTEL argue that the proposed competitive safeguards, which are in the form of a Code of Conduct, are closely modeled after the Code of Conduct adopted for Bell Atlantic--Pennsylvania, Inc. (BA-PA) in the Global proceeding Order entered September 30, 1999, at Doc. Nos. P-00991648 and 00991649. The parties further allege that the Global Order, including the proposed Code of Conduct for BA-PA, however, is in a state of uncertainty given several outstanding appeals currently pending in State court. The two letters conclude that it would be premature to ask for comments in the instant proceeding until there is greater finality in the global proceeding.

   Because the Commission agrees that resolution of the Code of Conduct issue in the Global proceeding may be ofrelevance in the instant proceeding, the Commission will grant a 60-day extension for the filing of comments to April 28, 2000.

JAMES J. MCNULTY,   
Secretary

[Pa.B. Doc. No. 00-424. Filed for public inspection March 10, 2000, 9:00 a.m.]


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