COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY NINETY-FIRST CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON FEDERAL PROCEDURES RELATING TO ADEQUACY AND CONTENTS AUGUST 10, 1970 (BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS) Page Dermot P. Shea, executive secretary, State Consumers Council. Robert G. Taylor, partner and manager, R. W. Beck & Associates_ Thomas Joyce, counsel_-. Lewis Moss, member, South Carolina Public Service Commission___. William B. McGuire, president, Duke Power Co----- Arthur Williams, president, South Carolina Electric and Gas Co----. I. Boston Edison Co. emergency load control plan__ II. REMVEC electric reliability reports, New England area.. III. Letter from George E. Tomlinson, FFC Bureau of Power, to the V. Responses by State commission staff representatives and operating utility representatives concerning load shedding and load relief VI. Progress reports of the regional organizations to the executive board of National Electric Reliability Council (April 1970). VII. New England power exchange operating procedure No. 4: Action X. Responses to questions regarding State and local regulatory con- XI. State regulation of electric power adequacy and reliability. XV. Letters containing information on large-scale generating unit Page 244 246 251 251 263 278 300 305 317 XIX. Statement submitted by John K. Cauthen, executive vice president, South Carolina Textile Manufacturers Association_-_ 318 XVII. Transmittal letter and draft reliability legislation prepared by SUBCOMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICES AND PROCEDURE OF THE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Boston, Mass. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:10 a.m., in room 2300, J. F. K. Building, Senator Edward M. Kennedy (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Kennedy (presiding). Also present: James Flug, chief counsel; Thomas Susman, assistant counsel; Michael A. Pulliam, minority counsel; Jane Tibbetts, majority clerk; and Marilyn Weigman, minority clerk. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY Senator KENNEDY. The subcommittee will come to order. Electricity is the lifeblood of our modern, technological society. It powers the appliances which have made our homes more comfortable places to live-refrigerators, ovens, televisions, radios, washing machines, air conditioners. It powers the industrial equipment on which our business and commercial enterprises rely-heavy machinery, telephones, computers. It powers the hospital equipment which has raised our standard of health care so high-iron lungs, heart stimulators, X-ray machines, artificial kidney machines. It powers transportation services-subways, busses, elevators. It powers devices which regulate the flow of air and ground trafficradar, radio signals, stop lights. It powers the systems on which we depend for public safety and national defense fire and police and burglar alarms, street lights, early-warning radar, antimissile systems. And it powers the set of wires which offers comfort and convenience and security in almost all American homes-electric lights. Recently, however, this lifeblood of electricity has become increasingly anemic. Reddy Kilowatt has become a bit more pale, and far less "ready," than that vigorous symbol in which we placed so much confidence for so long. In New York City, for example, electric power reserves have recently been actually negative. Last month, Con Edison cut back the power flow by 8 percent, urging customers to forgo the use of electricity whenever possible. |