Utility Companies Seek 60-Day Extension on Pole Replacement FNPRM Replies

A coalition of utility companies asked the FCC to extend until Sept. 26 the deadline for reply comment on its Further NPRM on pole replacement costs (see 2206280066). The American Public Power Association, Edison Electric Institute, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and Utilities Technology Council cited a "significant number of comments, the complexity of the issues raised and the sheer volume of the filings, significant number of comments, [and] the complexity of the issues raised and the sheer volume of the filings," in a motion posted Tuesday in docket 17-84. Many comments "raise new issues and propose new rules that were not considered in the FNPRM or elsewhere in the record," the companies said.