Panel Clears N.H. One-Touch, Make-Ready Draft

A New Hampshire panel approved revised draft rules for a one-touch, make-ready policy. After refusing to clear them last month due to concerns about ambiguous terminology (see 2210200016), the Joint Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules (JLCAR) cleared a second draft unanimously and without discussion Thursday. The New Hampshire Department of Energy (DOE) sent the revisions to the committee Nov. 2. The edits are “intended to address and resolve all of the comments and potential bases for objection identified by” the Office of Legislative Services, the department’s Commissioner Jared Chicoine said in a cover letter. The department next must adopt final rules, which most likely will take effect Dec. 1, DOE Legal Director David Wiesner told us Thursday.