[42 Pa.B. 9]
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Annex A
TITLE 52. PUBLIC UTILITIES
PART I. PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
Subpart C. FIXED SERVICE UTILITIES
CHAPTER 57. ELECTRIC SERVICE
Subchapter B. SERVICE AND FACILITIES § 57.11. Accidents.
(a) General. A public utility shall submit a report of each reportable accident involving the facilities or operations of the public utility in this Commonwealth to the Secretary of the Commission.
(b) Reportable accidents. Reportable accidents are those involving utility facilities or operations which result in one or more of the following circumstances:
(1) The death of a person.
(2) Injury to a person sufficient that the injured person requires immediate treatment at a hospital emergency room or in-patient admittance to a hospital, or both.
(3) An occurrence of an unusual nature, whether or not death or injury of a person results, which apparently will result in a prolonged and serious interruption of normal service.
(4) An occurrence of an unusual nature that is a physical or cyber attack, including attempts against cyber security measures as defined in Chapter 101 (relating to public utility preparedness through self certification) that causes an interruption of service or over $50,000 in damages, or both.
(c) Exceptions. Injuries, as defined in subsection (b)(1) and (2), may not include those suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident with utility facilities unless one or both of the following circumstances apply:
(1) A vehicle involved in the accident is owned by the utility or driven by a utility employee while on duty.
(2) Some or all of the injuries were as a result of contact with electrified facilities.
(d) Telephone reports. A report by telephone shall be made immediately after the utility becomes aware of the occurrence of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(1), (3) or (4). A report by telephone shall be made within 24 hours after a utility becomes aware of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(2).
(e) Written reports. A written report shall be made on Form UCTA-8 within 30 days of the occurrence of a reportable accident. For reportable accidents under subsection (b)(4), a utility may remove from Form UCTA-8 information that would compromise the security of the utility or hinder an active criminal investigation. Accidents reportable on forms required by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Department of Labor and Industry, or the United States Department of Energy, may be reported to the Commission by filing a copy of the forms in lieu of a report on Form UCTA-8, as long as the alternative forms, at a minimum, provide the following information:
(1) The utility name.
(2) The date of reportable accident.
(3) The date of report.
(4) The location where the reportable accident occurred.
(5) The name, age, residence and occupation of the injured or deceased parties.
(6) The general description of the reportable accident.
(7) The name and telephone number of the reporting officer.
(f) Form availability. Blank UCTA-8 forms are available for download on the Commission's web site.
(g) Reports not exclusive. The reporting under this chapter is not limited to the requirements in this section and does not limit requests for additional information.
CHAPTER 59. GAS SERVICE
SERVICE AND FACILITIES § 59.11. Accidents.
(a) General. Each public utility shall submit a report of each reportable accident involving the facilities or operations of the public utility in this Commonwealth as provided in this section. The reports shall be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission.
(b) Reportable accidents. Reportable accidents are those involving utility facilities or operations which result in one or more of the following circumstances:
(1) The death of a person.
(2) Injury to a person sufficient that the injured person requires immediate treatment at a hospital emergency room or in-patient admittance to a hospital, or both.
(3) An event that involves a release of gas from a pipeline or of LNG or gas from an LNG facility, which results in estimated property damage, including the cost of gas lost of the operator or others, of at least $50,000 in market value.
(4) An event that results in an emergency shutdown of an LNG facility.
(5) An occurrence of an unusual nature that is a physical or cyber attack, including attempts against cyber security measures as defined in Chapter 101 (relating to public utility preparedness through self certification) which causes an interruption of service or over $50,000 in damages, or both.
(c) Exceptions. Injuries, as defined in subsection (b)(1) and (2), may not include those suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident with utility facilities unless one or both of the following circumstances apply:
(1) A vehicle involved in the accident is owned by the utility or driven by a utility employee while on duty.
(2) Some or all of the injuries were as a result of contact with natural gas facilities transporting or storing natural gas or due to gas escaping from natural gas facilities.
(d) Telephone reports. A report by telephone shall be made immediately after the utility becomes aware of the occurrence of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(1), (3), (4) and (5). A report by telephone shall be made within 24 hours after the utility becomes aware of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(2).
(e) Written reports. A written report shall be made on Form UCTA-8 within 30 days of the occurrence of a reportable accident. For reportable accidents under subsection (b)(5), a utility may remove from Form UCTA-8 information that would compromise the security of the utility or hinder an active criminal investigation. Accidents reportable on forms required by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Department of Labor and Industry, or the United States Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, may be reported to the Commission by filing a copy of the forms in lieu of a report on Form UCTA-8, as long as the alternative forms, at a minimum, provide the following information:
(1) The utility name.
(2) The date of the reportable accident.
(3) The date of the report.
(4) The location where the reportable accident occurred.
(5) The name, age, residence and occupation of the injured or deceased parties.
(6) The general description of the reportable accident.
(7) The name and telephone number of the reporting officer.
(f) Form availability. Blank UCTA-8 forms are available for download on the Commission's web site.
(g) Reports not exclusive. The reporting under this chapter is not limited to the requirements in this section and does not limit requests for additional information.
CHAPTER 65. WATER SERVICE § 65.2. Accidents.
(a) General. A public utility shall submit a report of each reportable accident involving the facilities or operations of the public utility in this Commonwealth. The reports shall be addressed to the Secretary of the Commission.
(b) Reportable accidents. Reportable accidents are those involving utility facilities or operations which result in one or more of the following circumstances:
(1) The death of a person.
(2) Injury to a person sufficient that the injured person requires immediate treatment at a hospital emergency room or in-patient admittance to a hospital, or both.
(3) An occurrence of an unusual nature, whether or not death or injury of a person results, which apparently will result in a prolonged and serious interruption of normal service.
(4) An occurrence of an unusual nature that is a physical or cyber attack, including attempts against cyber security measures as defined in Chapter 101 (relating to public utility preparedness through self certification) which causes an interruption of service or over $50,000 in damages, or both.
(c) Exceptions. Injuries, as defined in subsection (b)(1) and (2), may not include those suffered as a result of a motor vehicle accident with utility facilities unless one or both of the following circumstances apply:
(1) A vehicle involved in the accident is owned by the utility or driven by a utility employee while on duty.
(2) Some or all of the injuries were as a result of contact with water facilities transporting or storing water or due to water escaping from water facilities.
(d) Telephone reports. A report by telephone shall be made immediately after the utility becomes aware of the occurrence of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(1), (3) and (4). A report by telephone shall be made within 24 hours after a utility becomes aware of a reportable accident under subsection (b)(2).
(e) Written reports. A written report shall be made on Form UCTA-8 within 30 days of the occurrence of a reportable accident. For reportable accidents under subsection (b)(4), the utility may remove from Form UCTA-8 information that would compromise the security of the utility or hinder an active criminal investigation. Accidents reportable on forms required by the Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Department of Labor and Industry, Department of Environmental Protection or the United States Environmental Protection Agency may be reported to the Commission by filing a copy of the forms in lieu of a report on Form UCTA-8, as long as the alternative forms, at a minimum, provide the following information:
(1) The utility name.
(2) The date of reportable accident.
(3) The date of report.
(4) The location where the reportable accident occurred.
(5) The name, age, residence and occupation of the injured or deceased parties.
(6) The general description of the reportable accident.
(7) The name and telephone number of the reporting officer.
(f) Form availability. Blank UCTA-8 forms are available for download on the Commission's web site.
(g) Reports not exclusive. The reporting under this chapter is not limited to the requirements in this section and does not limit requests for additional information.
CHAPTER 67. SERVICE OUTAGES § 67.1. General provisions.
(a) Electric, gas, water and telephone utilities holding certificates of public convenience under 66 Pa.C.S. §§ 1101 and 1102 (relating to organization of public utilities and beginning of service and enumeration of acts requiring certificate) shall adopt the following steps to notify the Commission with regard to unscheduled service interruptions.
(b) All electric, gas, water and telephone utilities shall notify the Commission when 2,500 or 5.0%, whichever is less, of their total customers have an unscheduled service interruption in a single event for 6 or more projected consecutive hours. A service outage report shall be filed with the Commission within 10 working days after the total restoration of service. Where storm conditions cause multiple reportable interruptions as defined by this section, a single composite service outage report shall be filed for the event. Each report must contain the following information:
(1) The approximate number of customers interrupted during the event.
(2) The approximate number of trouble cases for each county affected during the event. Trouble cases are non-outage cases such as primary and secondary line-down calls and emergency calls.
(3) The approximate number of outage cases for each county affected during the event.
(4) The number of outage cases exceeding 6 or more hours in duration.
(5) A listing of each outage case exceeding 6 or more hours in duration, including the following:
(i) Approximate geographic location (county, city, municipality or township).
(ii) Total number of customers affected.
(iii) Duration of the outage.
(iv) Initial date and time of the outage.
(v) Restoration time and date.
(6) The reason for the interruption.
(7) The projected time for service restoration of the event.
(8) A listing of the number of utility workers assigned specifically to the repair work by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(9) A listing of the number of contract workers assigned specifically to the repair work by company and by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(10) A listing of the number of workers received as mutual aid by company and by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like.
(11) The date and time of the first information of a service interruption.
(12) The date and time that repair crews were assembled.
(13) The actual time that service was restored to the last affected customer.
(14) A general description of the physical damage sustained by the utility facilities as a result of the event. The description must include facilities replaced due to damage and a listing of the number of poles, transformers, spans of wire, pipes or valves replaced.
(15) For weather-related events, the utility's weather reports, outlooks or scenarios for the day before and the day of the interruption event.
(16) For all interruption events that caused outages to more than 10% of customers in the utility's service territory, and to the best of the utility's ability to access historical data, the historical ranking of the event in terms of the number and duration of outages and examples of two comparable events, including the number and duration of outages for those comparable events.
(c) In addition to the requirements of subsection (b), the utility shall notify the Commission by telephone within 1 hour after preliminary assessment of conditions reasonably indicates that the criteria listed in subsection (b) may be applicable. Subsection (b)(1), (3), (6) and (7) shall be used as guidelines for the telephone report. The Commission will maintain telephone lines for this purpose and will notify each utility of the numbers to be called. Blank outage reporting forms are available for download on the Commission's web site.
(d) A written report shall be made on Form UCTA-8 within 5 days of a reportable accident. Accidents which are also reportable to the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation, Department of Labor and Industry, may be reported to the Commission by filing a copy of the report submitted to that Bureau in place of Form UCTA-8.
(e) All electric, gas, water and telephone utilities shall list in the local telephone directories of their service areas, and on their web sites, a telephone number to be used during normal operating hours and an emergency telephone number to be used 24 hours in emergency service situations.
(f) As defined in subsection (b), the service outage report must contain the required information except for the following utilities:
(1) Gas utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (5), (14), (15) and (16).
(2) Water utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (15) and (16).
(3) Telephone utilities are not required to submit the information under subsection (b)(2), (4), (5), (8), (9), (10), (12), (14), (15) and (16). Alternatively, in lieu of the service outage report required under subsection (b), telephone utilities may file a comparable outage report required by the Federal Communications Commission as long as the comparable report, at a minimum, contains the following information:
(i) The name of the reporting entity.
(ii) The reason for the interruption.
(iii) The date and time of the first information of a service interruption.
(iv) The approximate number of customers interrupted.
(v) The geographic area affected by the interruption.
(vi) The actual time that service was restored to the last affected customer.
(g) The reporting under this chapter is not limited to the requirements in this section and does not limit requests for additional information.
(Editor's Note: The following form is available on the Commission's web site. It will not be codified in the Pennsylvania Code.)
REPORT OF SERVICE OUTAGE TO
PENNSYLVANIA PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSION
SECRETARY'S BUREAU
P O BOX 3265
HARRISBURG, PA 17105-3265
Phone-In Reports: Always call (717) 773-7377
RA-PUCPEMA@pa.govAn original and one copy of this report are to be mailed to the Secretary's Bureau at the address above, even if an electronic copy has been emailed to the address above.
Information Required:
1. Reporting Utility: _____________________________________ Address: _____________________________________ _____________________________________ 2. Name and title of person making report: _________________ _________________ (Name) (Title)
3. Telephone number: _________________ (Telephone Number)
4. Date and time initial telephonic report was made to Commission: _________________ _________________ (Date) (Time) 5. Interruption or Outage:
(a) Number of customers affected: _________________
(b) Approximate number of outage cases and trouble cases for each county affected during the event: ______
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________(c) Approximate number of outages for each county affected during the event: _________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
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_____________________________________(d) Approximate number of outage cases exceeding 6 or more hours in duration: _________________
_____________________________________(e) A listing of each outage case exceeding 6 or more hours in duration, including the following information:
Outage Case Approximate Geographic Location
(county, city, muni or twp)Total Number
of Customers AffectedDuration of
the OutageInitial Date
and Time of
the OutageRestoration
Date and Time(f) Reason for the interruption or outages: ___________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________
_____________________________________(g) Projected time of restoration: ___________________________
_____________________________________(h) The number of utility workers, contract workers and workers received as mutual aid assigned specifically to the repair work by general function, that is linemen, troublemen, tree crew, and the like:
Utility/Company # of Workers General Function (i) The date and time of the first information of a service interruption: _________________
_____________________________________(j) The date and time that repair crews were assembled:
_____________________________________(k) The actual time that service was restored to the last affected customer: _________________
_____________________________________(l) A general description of the physical damage sustained by the utility facilities as a result of the interruption/outage: _____________________________________
_____________________________________
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_____________________________________(m) If the interruption / outage event was weather-related, the utility's weather reports, outlooks, or scenarios for the day before and the day of the interruption/outage event: _________________
_____________________________________
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_____________________________________(n) If the interruption / outage event caused approximate outages that exceed 10% or more of customers in the utility's entire service territory, rank the event in terms of the number and duration of outages and provide 2 comparable events, including the number and duration of outages for those comparable events:
Event and Rank Event Date Number of Outages Duration of Outages Remarks: _____________________________________
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[Pa.B. Doc. No. 12-4. Filed for public inspection January 6, 2012, 9:00 a.m.]
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