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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 937
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 3927
Referred to Committee on ENERGY AND TECHNOLOGY
Introduced by:
(ET)
AN ACT CONCERNING EM ERGENCY RESPONSE PLA NNING AND
VIDEO SERVICE WIRE REMOVAL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2021) (a) As used in this section: 1
(1) "Critical infrastructure" has the same meaning as provided in 2
section 12-39p of the general statutes; 3
(2) "Electric distribution company" has the same meaning as 4
provided in section 16-1 of the general statutes; 5
(3) "Electric distribution services" has the same meaning as provided 6
in section 16-1 of the general statutes; 7
(4) "Emergency" has the same meaning as provided in subdivision (1) 8
of subsection (a) of section 16-32e of the general statutes; 9
(5) "Make-safe action" means the clearing of downed electric wires 10
that endanger the life, safety or property of any individual; and 11
(6) "Make-safe crew" means the crew performing the make-safe 12 Raised Bill No. 937
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action. 13
(b) On or before October 1, 2021, the Public Utilities Regulatory 14
Authority shall initiate a proceeding to investigate, develop and adopt 15
a deployment process for electric distribution company make-safe 16
crews after an emergency. Such deployment process shall: (1) Establish 17
the composition of make-safe crews; (2) determine the circumstances 18
when each electric distribution company shall provide make-safe crews 19
to each municipality in the state; and (3) determine the minimum 20
number of make-safe crews needed for each municipality based upon 21
such municipality's roads, population and critical infrastructure. 22
(c) On or before January 1, 2022, each electric distribution company 23
shall develop an emergency response plan. Said emergency response 24
plan shall: (1) Demonstrate to the authority such company's capacity to 25
increase such company's field workforce by at least five hundred per 26
cent during an emergency, including an increase in corresponding 27
customer service functions; (2) demonstrate to the authority such 28
company's ability to respond to a category three hurricane, as 29
determined by the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale; (3) provide 30
each municipality with accurate, up-to-date information including, but 31
not limited to, damage assessments, circuit damage, utility pole 32
damage, infrastructure damage affecting electric distribution services 33
and crew locations; and (4) not later than one hundred twenty minutes 34
after opening an emergency operations center, provide up-to-date 35
geographic information systems data on any service outages in the 36
municipality. 37
(d) On or before January 1, 2022, each electric distribution company 38
shall develop a liaison program for use in connection with such 39
company's deployed make-safe crews. Such liaison program shall: (1) 40
Assign a dedicated liaison and an alternate liaison for each municipality 41
within the state; (2) establish a training program for such dedicated 42
liaison; (3) require the deployment of such liaison whenever such 43
company utilizes make-safe crews; (4) require that each dedicated 44
liaison possess specific and detailed knowledge of the electric grid in 45 Raised Bill No. 937
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such liaison's assigned municipality; (5) require such dedicated liaison 46
to report to any emergency operations center, if requested by the chief 47
executive officer of the municipality; and (6) provide accurate and up-48
to-date information to each municipality regarding the timeframe for 49
power restoration. 50
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2021) (a) As used in this section, 51
"community antenna television company" and "certified competitive 52
video service provider" have the same meanings as provided in section 53
16-1 of the general statutes. 54
(b) Not later than thirty days after a residential or commercial 55
customer terminates service with a community antenna television 56
company or certified competitive video service provider, such entities 57
shall remove all associated wire from the residential or commercial 58
property and the public utility pole relaying such wire to the property. 59
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 New section
Sec. 2 July 1, 2021 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To create a deployment process and response plan following an
emergency involving power outages and to require the removal of video
service wire from residential and commercial properties.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]