Code of Massachusetts Regulations
980 CMR - ENERGY FACILITIES SITING COUNCIL
Title 980 CMR 7.00 - Long-range Forecasts And Supplements
Section 7.05 - Annual Supplements by Electric Companies

(a) Each annual supplement shall set forth appropriate changes in the company's long-range forecast, as previously supplemented, considering at least a ten year period succeeding the date on which the current supplement is filed. Any new facility expected to commence operation in the tenth year after the said date must be included in the supplement. Any new facility for which Council approval is required and which is expected to commence operation nine years or less after the said date may be included only as provided by 980 CMR 7.04(l)(c). Each supplement shall explain any differences between the most recent previous forecast or supplement and the current supplement and events occurring in the year since the previous forecast or supplement was filed. Each supplement shall fiilfill or report the fialfiUment of any stated conditions that the Council, in granting a qualified approval of a previously filed long-range forecast or supplement, may have required the forecasting company to meet in its annual supplement or by the time such supplement is filed.

(b) hi the event that an annual supplement represents the first filing by a company or that a company did not file the next previous long-range forecast, the supplement must, unless an intervening supplement has done so, contain all information normally required by 980 CMR 7.03 and 7.04 to be filed in connection with a long-range forecast.

(a) Notwithstanding the time limits of 980 CMR 7.04(1), an electric company may at any time file an occasional supplement to an approved forecast or annual supplement. The sole purpose of an occasional supplement shall be to propose for Council approval the construction of one or more transmission lines less than 15 miles in length and of a capacity of 115 kV or less and ancillary structures.

(b) An occasional supplement shall be a petition, and notice of its filing shall be given in the manner required by 980 CMR 1.03(2) and 7.02(4).

(c) An occasional supplement shall consist of:

(d) Notwithstanding the time limit of 980 CMR 7.02(9)(a) the Council shall within six months from the date of fihng of a complete, occasional supplement render a decision approving it, approving it subject to stated conditions, approving it in pait and rejecting it in part, or rejecting it.

(e) An occasional supplement may be combined with a forecast or an aimual supplement.