effective date of this subsection, the commission shall commence
an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking. No later than 180
days from the date of commencement of the advanced notice of
proposed rulemaking, the commission shall submit a notice of
proposed rulemaking to the Legislative Reference Bureau for
publication in the next available issue of the Pennsylvania
Bulletin in accordance with the act of July 31, 1968 (P.L.769,
No.240), referred to as the Commonwealth Documents Law. No later
than 18 months after publication of the notice of proposed
rulemaking, the commission shall seek approval of the final-form
regulations in accordance with the act of October 15, 1980
(P.L.950, No.164), known as the Commonwealth Attorneys Act, and
the act of June 25, 1982 (P.L.633, No.181), known as the
Regulatory Review Act.
(d) Nonrecoverable costs.--Costs incurred by a utility under
this section shall not be recoverable from ratepayers.
(e) Definitions.--As used in this section, the term "double
utility pole" means an area where a full or remnant part of a
damaged or outmoded utility pole remains present or in service
after the installation of a newly installed replacement utility
pole because the attached electric, telephone, cable or other
infrastructure has not migrated from the damaged or outmoded
utility pole to the newly installed replacement utility pole.
(E) DEFINITIONS.--AS USED IN THIS SECTION, THE FOLLOWING
WORDS AND PHRASES SHALL HAVE THE MEANINGS GIVEN TO THEM IN THIS
SUBSECTION UNLESS THE CONTEXT CLEARLY INDICATES OTHERWISE:
"ATTACHED INFRASTRUCTURE OWNER." EITHER A PUBLIC UTILITY
DEFINED IN SECTION 102 (RELATING TO DEFINITIONS) ATTACHING
INFRASTRUCTURE TO ANOTHER PUBLIC UTILITY'S POLE OR A NONUTILITY
ENTITY ATTACHING INFRASTRUCTURE TO THE POLES OF A PUBLIC
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