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Statutes > Connecticut > Title16 > Chap277 > Sec16-19cc

      Sec. 16-19cc. Semiannual reports from nuclear generating facility licensees re: Maintenance, refueling and shutdown schedules. Penalty for shutdown for a significant period of time. (a) Every electric public service company, as defined by section 16-1, which owns a five per cent or larger share of a nuclear generating facility shall file with the Department of Public Utility Control and the Office of Consumer Counsel, semiannually, on April first and October first, a report on the projected availability, maintenance, refueling and shutdown schedules, for the next twelve-month period, of all generating facilities over one hundred megawatts of capacity of each electric public service company and any generating facilities which are part of the New England Power Pool.

      (b) The Department of Public Utility Control shall hold a hearing at the end of each calendar quarter in which fifty per cent or more of an electric public service company's nuclear generating capacity has been out of service for a significant period of time. If the department finds that the electric public service company has not fulfilled its public service responsibilities under this title and title 16a, then the department, in its discretion, may prohibit the electric public service company from recovering, directly or indirectly, all or any portion of the costs associated with the purchase of electricity from other sources through its rates or charges.

      (c) The Department of Public Utility Control shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, to administer the provisions contained in this section.

      (P.A. 88-220, S. 9, 11; P.A. 96-180, S. 44, 166.)

      History: P.A. 96-180 substituted "Office of Consumer Counsel" for "Division of Consumer Counsel" in Subsec. (a) and made technical change in Subsec. (b), effective June 3, 1996.