Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Public Utilities Regulatory Authority

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Procedures for Requesting Protective Order when Filing Proprietary Information


Purpose
The purpose of these procedures is to provide guidelines to assure that information believed to be proprietary and/or confidential can be quickly identified by the Executive Secretary’s Office, and that Commissioners and staff have sufficient information to determine whether the filing is entitled to protected treatment.

Definition
Proprietary Information is defined as any information that may be exempt from public disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes § 1-210(b).

Filing Requirements If Protection is Sought

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Authority has indefinitely suspended the paper copy filing requirement. Anyone filing material with the Authority should file only an electronic copy through the PURA Web Filing System. Please refer to the Electronic Filing webpage for more information.

Anyone filing proprietary material for which protection from public disclosure is sought shall follow the below procedure:

  • File a Motion for a Protective Order requesting an exemption from public disclosure of the proprietary material. The Motion must provide specific legal arguments with reference to state or federal law describing with supporting facts why the material should be kept confidential.
  • A certified affidavit supplied by a competent witness in support of the Motion must be appended to the Motion.
  • Unless otherwise directed by the Authority, all associated confidential material shall be submitted electronically by emailing the material to Jeff.Gaudiosi@ct.gov.
  • The email’s subject line shall state in all capital letters “CONFIDENTIAL MATERIAL - NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE”.
  • The confidential material must clearly labeled with the Docket Number (if any), the name of the filing entity, the date, a brief description of the contents (e. g. Response to Interrogatory TE-1), and each page of any electronic confidential material shall also contain the header “CONFIDENTIAL – NOT FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.”
  • The proprietary information shall not be filed through the PURA Web Filing System.
  • A redacted version of the confidential material for which protection is sought must be filed electronically through the PURA Web Filing System. (This will be distributed to Commissioners and staff, alerting them that the information is subject to a Protective Order, either granted or pending.)

Filing Requirements If Protection Has Already Been Granted
If protection has already been granted on a certain category of information, subsequent filings of that type of information need not include the Motion for Protective Order and Affidavit. The confidential material shall be filed as described above, and a redacted version of the document, also as described above, should be filed.





Content Last Updated December 2022