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ORDER NO. PSC -2020 -0293 -AS -EI <br />DOCKET NOS. 20200067 -EI, 20200069 -EI, Attachment A <br />20200070-EI,20200071-EI,20200092-EI <br />PAGE 27 <br />16. The Parties agree that the record supports a Commission finding that FPL's Vegetation <br />Management — Distribution ,Program is in the public' interest and that FPL proceeding to <br />implement the program is not evidence of imprudence. <br />17. The Parties agree ihat:ihe'record supports a Commission finding that FPL's Vegetation <br />Manage e. nt — Transmission Program is in the public interest and that FPL proceeding to <br />implement the program !is not evidence of imprudence. <br />18. The. Parties agree that with. regard to FPL's Distribution Lateral Hardening-. <br />Undergrounding .Program, FPL should continue this Program as a pilot through 2022 <br />("Continued Pilot'). The priority for undergrounding in this Continued. ,Pilot will be <br />targeted for:feeders that have the most number of laterals that experienced an.outage during <br />Hurricanes Matthew and/or Irma and that have a history of vegetation outages or overall. <br />reliability issues, as further described, on page 26 of FPL's SPP (Exhibit MJ -1, page 30 of <br />48). Tile Parties agree that the record supports a Commission finding thatthC total number <br />of laterals identified. n Appendix C to FPL's 8PP (Exhibit 14.1-I, Appendix C, page 2 of <br />2) for tlie,years.2020-2022should be approved. Further; as part of this Continued Pilot, <br />FPL will collect Wormation and data to establish. protocols for detennining :when a lateral <br />for vfeeder being:evaluated for undergrounding in FPL's system should be 'overhead <br />hardened as :opposed to being placed underground, and. FPL Will use such protocols in <br />future SPP .work. the Parties retain all rights to assert or challenge the,reasonableness of <br />FPL's;projected costs and prudence of FPL's actual costs on individual projects underlhis <br />program m the: SPPUG. For Distribution Lateral Hardening—Undergrounding Program <br />activities for'the year2023, FPL shall file an`SPP update in 2022 in order to seele recovery <br />of costs for suclr2023 actrvitie"s sifi 2023, The Parties further agree tliaYtheir consent to "this. <br />