New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SERVICE
Chapter I - RULES OF PROCEDURE
Subchapter G - Certificates Of Environmental Compatibility And Public Need
Part 85 - General Procedures
Subpart 85-2 - Procedures with Respect to All Electric Transmission Lines and Fuel Gas Transmission Lines 10 or More Miles Long
Section 85-2.6 - Consultation with staff

Applicants, other parties, and all interested groups and persons are invited and encouraged to confer on an informal basis with the staff of the commission with respect to any matter related to a filing or proposed filing. Except as expressly provided to the contrary, neither an applicant, other party, interested group or person, nor the commission staff, shall be bound by any statement made during the course of such informal consultation. The commission shall not be bound without its consent.