(f)
Vegetation Management Report. A utility shall file with the commission by May 1
of each year a Vegetation Management Report (Report) summarizing its Vegetation
Management Plan for the current calendar year and its progress in implementing
its Plan for the preceding calendar year. The Report filed May 1, 2013 does not
need to contain the information required by paragraph (2) of this subsection.
The Report shall include, at a minimum, the following components:
(1) A Vegetation Management Plan summary
including, at a minimum, a summary of the utility's:
(A) vegetation maintenance goals and the
method the utility employs to measure its progress;
(B) trimming clearances and scheduling
approach;
(C) plan to remediate
vegetation-caused issues on feeders that are on the vegetation-caused, worst
performing feeder list for the preceding calendar year's SAIDI and
SAIFI;
(D) tree risk management
program;
(E) approach to
monitoring, preparing for, and responding to adverse environmental conditions
such as drought and wildfire danger that may impact its vegetation management
policies and practices;
(F) total
overhead distribution miles in its system, excluding service drops;
(G) total number of electric points of
delivery;
(H) amount of
vegetation-related work it plans to accomplish in the current calendar year to
achieve its vegetation management goals described in subparagraph (A) of this
paragraph; and
(I) vegetation
management budget, divided into the categories listed in clauses (i) - (iv) of
this subparagraph. The utility should, within the confines of its own budgeting
practices, assign subcategories and list them under these categories where
appropriate. If a utility does not budget amounts under any specific category,
the utility shall provide a brief explanation of why it does not do so. The
utility shall title the budget with the dates it covers and provide a total for
each category or subcategory.
(i) scheduled
vegetation maintenance;
(ii)
unscheduled vegetation maintenance;
(iii) tree risk management; and
(iv) emergency and post-storm
activities.
(2) An implementation summary for the
preceding calendar year including, at a minimum, a description of:
(A) whether the utility met its vegetation
maintenance goals and how its goals have changed for the coming calendar year
based on the results;
(B) successes
and challenges with the utility's strategy, including obstacles faced, such as
property owner interference, and methods employed to overcome them;
(C) the progress and obstacles to remediating
issues on the vegetation-caused, worst performing feeders list as submitted in
the preceding year's Report;
(D)
the number of continuing education hours logged for the utility's internal
vegetation management personnel, if applicable;
(E) the amount of vegetation management work
the utility accomplished to achieve its vegetation management goals described
in paragraph (1)(A) of this subsection;
(F) the separate SAIDI and SAIFI scores for
vegetation-caused interruptions for each month and as reported for the calendar
year in its Service Quality Report filed pursuant to §
25.52 of this title (relating to
Reliability and Continuity of Service) and §
25.81 of this title (relating to
Service Quality Reports), at both the feeder and company level;
(G) the vegetation management budget,
including, at a minimum:
(i) a single table
with columns representing:
(I) the budget for
each category and subcategory that the utility provided in the preceding year
pursuant to paragraph (1)(I) of this subsection, with totals for each category
and subcategory;
(II) the actual
expenditures for each category and subcategory listed pursuant to subclause (I)
of this clause, with totals for each category or subcategory;
(III) the percentage of actual expenditures
over or under the budget for each category or subcategory listed pursuant to
subclause (I) of this clause; and
(IV) the actual expenditures for the
preceding reporting year for each category and subcategory listed pursuant to
subclause (I) of this clause, with totals for each category or
subcategory;
(ii) an
explanation of the variation from the preceding year's vegetation management
budget where actual expenditures in any category or subcategory fell below 98
percent or increased above 110 percent of the budget for that
category;
(iii) the total
vegetation management expenditures divided by the number of electric points of
delivery on the utility's system, excluding service drops;
(iv) the total vegetation management
expenditures, including expenditures from the storm reserve, divided by the
number of customers the utility served; and
(v) the vegetation management budget from the
utility's last base-rate case.
