{"id":"SEC-23-017","kind":"order","level":"federal","jurisdiction":"United States (FERC-jurisdictional pipelines, utilities and markets)","state":"","metro":"","industry":"23","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Federal Energy Regulatory Commission","authority":"Federal Power Act, Natural Gas Act, Interstate Commerce Act (oil pipelines); Docket No. PL20-5-000","instrument":"Policy Statement, Business Continuity of Energy Infrastructure, 85 Fed. Reg. 19466 (Apr. 7, 2020) (issued Apr. 2, 2020)","title":"Business Continuity of Energy Infrastructure","dateIssued":"2020-04-02","effective":"2020-04-07 (\u0027This policy statement will become applicable April 7, 2020\u0027)","end":"Not withdrawn during the period","startDate":"2020-04-07","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3","2020Q4","2021Q1","2021Q2","2021Q3"],"types":["OTHER"],"addressees":["entities regulated by the Commission: interstate natural gas and oil pipelines, public utilities, RTOs and ISOs"],"clause":"The Commission states that it will expeditiously review and act on requests for relief in response to the national emergency caused by COVID-19, and that it will give its highest priority to processing filings made for the purpose of assuring the business continuity of regulated entities\u0027 energy infrastructure during this extraordinary time.... Entities regulated by the Commission have had to take unprecedented actions in response to the emergency conditions, including directing staff to work remotely for an extended period, which may disrupt, complicate, or otherwise change their normal course of business operations.... We want to assure regulated entities that we will expeditiously review and act on requests for relief, including but not limited to, requests for cost recovery necessary to assure business continuity of the regulated entities\u0027 energy infrastructure in response to the national emergency.","enforcement":"Commission processing of waiver, extension and cost-recovery requests","functions":["PL pipeline construction and operation (certificate deadlines, tariffs)","CB utilities and pipelines","OP (regulated entities\u0027 staff \u0027work remotely for an extended period\u0027)"],"notes":"The federal energy regulator\u0027s own finding that its regulated entities\u0027 \u0027normal course of business operations\u0027 had been changed by the emergency; the same Federal Register issue (Apr. 7, 2020) carries the notice of the EEI/AGA/INGAA petition that preceded the policy statement (FR Doc. 2020-07302 page; SEC-23-018).","sourceUrl":"https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2020-04-07/pdf/2020-07301.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":196596,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-23","url":"/library/SEC-23-017","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-23-017","citation":"Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Policy Statement, Business Continuity of Energy Infrastructure, 85 Fed. Reg. 19466 (Apr. 7, 2020) (issued Apr. 2, 2020) (Ex. SEC-23-017)","stateName":"","related":["SEC-23-018","SEC-23-020"]}