N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. tit. 16 § 105.2

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 45, November 2, 2024

Section 105.2 - Definitions

For the purposes of this Part, the following definition shall apply:

(a) Storm drill. A storm drill is a training exercise held by an electric utility to test the adequacy and effectiveness of its regularly assigned personnel and personnel performing job functions outside of their normal areas of responsibility in implementing the utility's service restoration procedures in the wake of a storm classified at the highest or next highest level of severity by the utility. Drills shall simulate the involvement of a majority of a utility's customers served by overhead transmission and distribution facilities or individual operating areas on a sequential basis. The purposes of the drill can be achieved through the mobilization of utility personnel with specific storm response, service restoration assignments under simulated storm conditions or through the actual preparation for an advancing storm, [FN*] which may or may not damage the overhead T&D system. However, in either case, to qualify as a drill, the participants must have carried out all of their storm response assignments under either an impending storm scenario or a simulated storm scenario. Also the drill must involve contacts with outside agencies, local governments and others who would normally be included in service restoration responses. For actual preparations, in lieu of a drill, the company shall certify in section 105.3 of this Part that all requirements of this definition were met.

[FN*] Classified by the utility at the highest or next highest level of severity.

N.Y. Comp. Codes R. & Regs. Tit. 16 § 105.2