Colo. PUC Workshops Emergency Network Reliability Rules
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission could post revised draft rule changes on emergency service network reliability next month. At a partially virtual hearing Thursday, Administrative Law Judge Conor Farley ordered a July 15 report on ongoing workshops to find consensus…
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on changes meant to improve basic emergency service (BES) network reliability and set a tariff-based mechanism for funding network improvements. Farley said he hopes the report will include final redlined rules reflecting an agreement among parties in docket 22R-0122T. If it does, the ALJ plans to seek written comments by July 22 and replies by July 29, then take oral comments at a hearing Aug. 5 at 11:30 a.m. MDT, he said. If no consensus is reached by July 15, staff should file a status report that day, with next steps to be discussed at the Aug. 5 hearing, he said. Under proposed rules in a March NPRM, BES providers would have to submit a network reliability improvement plan and seek PUC certification every 10 years. “Requiring recertification is intended to better enable periodic reviews such that the Commission, customers, and other stakeholders can better ensure that a [provider] remains accountable in maintaining and updating its services to support statewide emergency service networks,” it said. The Colorado PUC convened three workshops last month on “foundational concepts,” said State 911 Program Manager Daryl Branson in a Monday filing. The group met again earlier this week to start digging into possible revisions to the draft rules, with a goal of finishing them by July 18, Branson said at Thursday’s hearing. Workshops are expected to continue through July 12, said the filing: Participants have included Lumen, Intrado, CTIA, Colorado Council of Authorities, Boulder Regional Emergency Telephone Service Authority (BRETSA) and the state utility consumer advocate.