RES 85339 - Laserfiche WebLink

Pacific Can and Electric Company Revised Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No. 7854-E San Francisco, Califortda Canesling Rexfined Cal. P.U.C. Sheet No. ~915-'E RULE No. 20 REPLACEMENT OF OVERHEAD WITH UNDERGROUND FACILITIES A. The Utility will, at its expense, replace its existing overhead electric facilities with underground electric facilities along public streets and roads, and on public lands and private property across which rights of way satisfactory to the Utility have been obtained by the Utility. provided that: 1. The governing body of the city or county in which such electric facilities are and will be located has a. Determined. after consultation with the Utility and after holding public hearings on the subject. that such undergrounding Is In the general public interest for one or more of the following reasons: (1) Such undergrounding will avoid or eliminate an unusually heavy concentration of over- head electric facilities; (2) The street or road or right-of-way is extensively used by the general public and carries a heavy volume of pedestrian or vehicular traffic; (3) The street or road or right-of-way adjoins or passes through a civic area or public recreation area or an area of unusual scenic interest to the general public. b. Adopted an ordinance creating an underground district in the area in which both the existing and new facilities are and will be located requiring, among other things, (1) that all existing overhead communication and electric distribution and service facilities in such district shall be removed, (2) that each property served from such electric overhead facilities shall have installed in accordance with the Utiliiy's rules for underground service. all electrical facility changes on the premises necessary to receive service from the underground facilities of the Utility as soon as it is available, and (3) authorizing the Utility to discontinue its overhead service. 2. The Utility's total annual budgeted amount for undergrounding within any city or the unincor- porated area of any county shall be allocated in the same ratio that the number of overhead meters in such city or unincorporated area of any county bears to the total system overhead meters. The amounts so allocated may be exceeded where the Utility establishes that additional participation on a project is warranted. Such allocated amounts may be carried over for a reasonable period of time in communities with active undergrounding programs. In order to qualify as a community with an active undergrounding program the governing body must have adopted an ordinance or ordinances creating an underground district and/or districts as set forth in Section A.l.b. of this rule. V.'bere there is a carry-over. the Utility has the right to set, as determined by its capability. reasonable limits on the rate of performance of the work to be financed by the funds carried over. When amounts are not expended or carried over for the community to which they are initially allocated they shall be assigned when additional participation on a project is warranted or be reallocated to communities with active undergrounding pro&rams. 3. The undergrounding includes both side of a street and extends for a minimum distance of one block or 600 feet, whichever is the lesser. Upon request of the governing body, the Utility will pay for the installation of no more than 100 feet of each customer's underground electric service lateral occasioned by the undergrounding. The governing body may establish a smaller footage allowance. or may limit the amount of money to be expertdeal on a single customer's electric service, or the total amount to be expended on all electric service installations in a particular project. (continued Advice Letter No. 910-E Issued by Date Filed Sept. 22, 1982 Decision No. ~20101~ W.M. Callavan Effective Oct. 21, 1982 Vice-President--Rates and Valuation Resolution No.