Under our current rules, the utilities would have 10 days after SED requires them to do so, to notify city and county officials of a mandatorily reported selfidentified potential violation involving a significant safety threat. The Petition seeks to change this by requiring that the utilities notify city and county officials of such a potential violation at the same time that they notify the Commission (the Petition, as modified by Petitioner’s response to comments, requests a 10-day notification period). We decline to change the Phase II Decision in this respect. As the Commission reasoned in the Phase II Decision at 60, the current Rule [where the utilities would have 10 days after SED requires them to do so, to notify city and county officials of a reported self-identified potential violation] “addresses concerns that reporting every self-identified potential violation may cause confusion with local authorities, but still retains the ability for the authorities to obtain prompt notification if Staff believes it necessary. Moreover, nothing in this rule prohibits a utility from providing broader notification than the rule requires, pursuant to any request it might obtain from a local jurisdiction or otherwise.” We also note that the Citation Rule I.F requires the utilities to notify local authorities of a citation as soon as reasonable and necessary, and no later than ten days after service of the citation from this Commission. We make no changes to this Citation Rule. Finally, the Petition asks that the Commission reconsider its interpretation of CUE’s comments regarding the FAA’s confidential reporting system, while recognizing the current record is inadequate to adopt the proposal. OSA agrees that the Commission should reconsider this proposal, but at this time takes no position on the specific modifications requested by the Petition. We make no
Under our current rules, the utilities would have 10 days after SED requires them to do so, to notify city and county officials of a mandatorily reported selfidentified potential violation involving a significant safety threat. The Petition seeks to change this by requiring that the utilities notify city and county officials of such a potential violation at the same time that they notify the Commission (the Petition, as modified by Petitioner’s response to comments, requests a 10-day notification period). We decline to change the Phase II Decision in this respect. As the Commission reasoned in the Phase II Decision at 60, the current Rule [where the utilities would have 10 days after SED requires them to do so, to notify city and county officials of a reported self-identified potential violation] “addresses concerns that reporting every self-identified potential violation may cause confusion with local authorities, but still retains the ability for the authorities to obtain prompt notification if Staff believes it necessary. Moreover, nothing in this rule prohibits a utility from providing broader notification than the rule requires, pursuant to any request it might obtain from a local jurisdiction or otherwise.” We also note that the Citation Rule I.F requires the utilities to notify local authorities of a citation as soon as reasonable and necessary, and no later than ten days after service of the citation from this Commission. We make no changes to this Citation Rule. Finally, the Petition asks that the Commission reconsider its interpretation of CUE’s comments regarding the FAA’s confidential reporting system, while recognizing the current record is inadequate to adopt the proposal. OSA agrees that the Commission should reconsider this proposal, but at this time takes no position on the specific modifications requested by the Petition. We make no
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