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COVID Burden Creates Vaccine Quandary JOSEPH WILLIAMS

Amid relentless pandemic that for months has cast a leaden pall over her work, Dr. Ebony Hilton in early December received the equivalent of a golden ticket.

An anesthesiologist and critical care physician at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Hilton, 38, was notified she’d be among the first in the nation to get a new, federally approved emergency vaccine to protect her against COVID-19. Soon after she received the notice, Hilton, who is Black, posted a video about it on YouTube, practically radiating optimism.

“We’re finally, I’m hoping, nearing as a nation a light the end of the tunnel,” she said.

Hilton’s excitement, however, is tempered by harsh reality: People of color have been hit hard by the novel coronavirus, and Black Americans have died of COVID-19 at a rate roughly three times higher than whites. Experts agree the virus has exposed health disparities hidden in plain sight, linked to the lingering effects of racism and inequality in the U.S. Yet finding a way to get a potentially game-changing vaccine – the result of a multibillion-dollar race to invent a drug that can stop a global pandemic – into the arms of a demographic that’s among those who need it most is a conundrum that would vex King Solomon himself.

“This is an unprecedented, unprecedented mass vaccination campaign. We’ve never done this,”

says Hemi Tewarson, a visiting senior policy fellow at the Duke University Margolis Center for Health Policy. While the country has had national inoculation campaigns for polio and the flu, she says, the global pandemic – combined with relatively small quantities of a precious vaccine – has raised the stakes to an extraordinary level.

And as the pandemic grinds on – killing thousands of people a day nationwide, swamping hospitals and funeral homes, and doing serious damage to the national economy – there isn’t much time for debate.

“Millions of Americans across the country are going to need to get this vaccine,” and quickly, Tewarson says.

Earlier this month, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory committee recommended that front-line health workers and residents of long-term care facilities such as nursing homes should get vaccinated first. Such recommendations help guide health policy in the U.S. Still, it’s up to states to draft their own inoculation plans for their share of available vaccine doses, raising thorny questions about who’s next in line.

“There are 50 states with 50 allocation schemes,” says Dr. Chris Beyrer, an epidemiologist and professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. But putting communities of color ahead of other groups for the vaccine is good public health practice, Beyrer says: They are

Sandra Lindsay canaries in the COVID-19 coal mine.

“If the uptake is low, the impact will be low,” Beyrer says. And given the complex plans to nationally distribute a groundbreaking vaccine that’s already in short supply, he says, “the devil is in the details.”

Ahead of the vaccine rollout, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices acknowledged that mitigating racial inequities should be a factor in distributing the vaccine, and said allocation strategies “should aim to both reduce existing disparities and to not create new disparities.”

CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield underscored the need in a statement accepting the committee’s initial recommendation for priority

groups, encouraging a future call to prioritize older people in multigenerational households.

“Often our Hispanic, Black and Tribal Nations families care for their elderly in multigenerational households and they are also at significant risk,” Redfield said.

Indeed, a recent National Governors Association, Margolis Center and COVID Collaborative survey found that “many states have incorporated health equity principles in their vaccination plans to varying degrees.”

“For example, North Carolina specifically cited historically marginalized populations as an early-phase critical population

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(from page 1) Academies of Sciences, Engineering, group and New Mexico is prioritizing collaboration with Native Americans,” the report states. New Jersey and California have factored in monitoring to “assess and remove barriers related to accessibility, such as transportation and wait times, among other factors.”

California also has developed “a composite health equity metric that measures case rate and test positivity and will be used to inform vaccination allocation,” according to the analysis.

Along with mass vaccination clinics, states may partner with community organizations, churches, pharmacists and other groups to distribute vaccines as they become more widely available.

Meanwhile, a Kaiser Family Foundation analysis released last month found that of 47 state vaccination plans, about half included “at least one mention of incorporating racial and/or ethnic minorities or health equity considerations in their targeting of priority populations.”

While some states expected to explicitly prioritize people of color, the analysis says, “others report using more general or indirect methods to do so,” such as the CDC’s Social Vulnerability Index, which takes into account factors such as area poverty, household crowding and minority status and was recommended by the National

and Medicine as a tool to guide vaccine delivery. Still, the KFF report found only 26 percent of state plans “specifically mention or consider providers that are needed to reach racial and ethnic minorities.”

Tewarson says it’s a good sign that racial equity is on the table, but it’s just the first step: Equitable distribution has to be implemented on the ground.

“Localities are going to have to do that, health systems are going to have to do that, physicians who are seeing people in their offices are going to have to do that,” she says. Any plan, she says, has to include a public relations campaign, and “people are going to have to be talking about this in a way that’s resonating with the public.”

The need for appropriate messaging can be seen in the reaction to remarks by Melinda Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest philanthropic and global health organizations. In an interview with TIME earlier this year, she said that “Black people (would be) next, quite honestly” in needing to get the vaccine after health care workers in the U.S., as “they are having disproportionate effects from COVID-19.”

The statement, however, triggered a backlash among some African Americans, with Gates accused of calling for the community to be used as “guinea pigs.”- USN Conclusion on legacynewspaper.com

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Developer changes location of planned business incubator at center of city dispute LaMar Dixon isn’t giving up on his long-promised business incubator, even if the building it was planned for remains in legal limbo.

The local real estate agent and principal of Dixon/Lee Development Group is preparing to open Capital Station, an incubator for first-time entrepreneurs, at 1322 W. Broad St. The VCU-area storefront is about a mile from the facility’s originally intended location in the former American National Bank Building at 201 W. Brookland Park Blvd.

Dixon is moving forward with the project despite unsettled business with the City of Richmond, which is seeking to get back a $200,000 grant it gave him as an incentive to support the original plan of redeveloping the long-dormant bank building.

After job creation and financing benchmarks were not met according to their performance agreement, the city last year declared the developer in default and sued Dixon/Lee to collect the funds. A default judgment against the firm was granted in circuit court this summer, and the $200,000 was awarded as damages to the city and its economic development authority, which provided the funds through a pair of grants.

Five months later, the money has yet to be collected. And the bank building, while poised to revert back to its previous owner, the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority, remains under Dixon’s ownership.

Dixon, who is aiming to open his Broad Street incubator early next year, said he was unaware of the default judgment until late October, when he came across a lien while conducting a title search. He said he is capable of paying the incentive money back and was trying to work with the city on a repayment plan when the lawsuit was filed.

“We just became aware of it,” Dixon said earlier this month, referring to the judgment. “We want to re-engage with the city to figure out how to repay the debt.”

Dixon said he was never served with the lawsuit, despite multiple attempts by the city and a private

LaMar Dixon process server that, according to filings in the case, attempted to serve him at four addresses including the Broad Street building, where Dixon has an apartment above the planned incubator space.

Dixon attributed the serving situation to circumstances surrounding the pandemic and to turnover in City Hall and at RRHA, where administrators he had been working with have since moved on. He said he remains willing to work with the city and was waiting out election season to know who he should reach out to.

“It was never a situation where we weren’t looking to resolve the issue,” Dixon said. “We’re trying to figure out who to resolve the issue with, what the steps look like, and hopefully we can have someone to talk to and come to a resolution.”

Bank building in limbo When the lawsuit was filed in April 2019, Dixon had been corresponding primarily with Doug Dunlap, a city administrator who was overseeing the economic development department at the time. He had also been in touch with Damon Duncan, the RRHA’s thenCEO, according to copies of emails that Dixon provided.

Both Dunlap and Duncan resigned this March. That same month, the lawsuit started picking up steam, with the city attorney’s office filing a motion requesting the default

judgment, granted in late July.

With that judgment, RRHA is now free to take back title on the bank building through a right of reversion on the property, which it sold to Dixon/Lee for $20,000 as part of the 2015 development agreement with the city. But Angela Fountain, a spokeswoman for RRHA, said it is waiting on the economic development department before moving forward.

In an email last month, Fountain said RRHA “is waiting for final resolution of the city’s legal claims against Dixon/Lee,” adding that it would be coordinating next steps with the economic development department.

Leonard Sledge, the city’s economic development director, when asked

where the process stands, said the EDA is pursuing the $200,000 from Dixon/Lee. “We will continue to exhaust all legal means to collect monies owed to the EDA from the legal entity,” Sledge said in an email.

‘Designed to end me’ Since the lawsuit was filed, Dixon said he offered to sell the bank building to outside buyers in an effort to satisfy the $200,000. In June, he wrote RRHA to inform it of an offer he’d received on the property, and to ask it to modify or remove its reversion clause to allow a sale to proceed.

His letter prompted RRHA to

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I-264 ERC Sound Walls Project City of Portsmouth Find out about the proposed plans to design and install sound barrier walls along Interstate 264, extending both east and west of the Martin Luther King (MLK) Expressway interchange, beginning 0.3 miles east of Portsmouth Boulevard (Route 337) and ending at 0.51 miles west of Effingham Street (Route 141).

The proposed sound barrier walls will be installed along I-264 in an effort to minimize noise disturbances caused by increased traffic volumes due to the elimination of tolls from the MLK Expressway. As a result of the toll elimination, VDOT re-evaluated the final design noise analysis (FDNA) for the previously completed MLK Expressway Project and received approval for the revised FDNA from the Federal Highway Administration.

Project information and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documentation in the form of a Categorical Exclusion (CE) are available at VDOT’s Hampton Roads District Office located at 7511 Burbage Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435, 757-272-9203, 1-800-367-7623, TTY/ TDD 711. Please call ahead to make arrangements for personnel to share more information or answer your questions.

If your concerns cannot be satisfied, VDOT is willing to hold a public hearing. You may request that a public hearing be held by sending a written request to Mr. Frank Fabian, P.E., PMP, Virginia Department of Transportation, 7511 Burbage Drive, Suffolk, VA 23435 on or prior to January 5, 2021. If a request for a public hearing is received, notice of date, time and place of the hearing will be posted.

In compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, Section 106 and 36 CFR Part 800, information concerning the potential effects of the proposed project on properties listed in or eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places is provided in the environmental documentation.

VDOT ensures nondiscrimination and equal employment in all programs and activities in accordance with Title VI and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. If you need more information in regards to your civil rights on this project or need special assistance for persons with disabilities or limited English proficiency, contact project manager Mr. Frank Fabian at the phone numbers listed above.

State Project: 0264-124-251 Federal Project: NHPP-264-6(109) UPC:117033

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Gov. Northam announces $9 million for Shockoe Bottom ANA EDWARDS & PHIL WILAYTO Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam [recently] announced that his upcoming state budget will include nearly $25 million “to transform historical sites and advance historic justice initiatives in Virginia.”

The proposed allocation includes $9 million for “the development of a Slavery Heritage Site and improvements to the Slave Trail in Richmond’s Shockoe Bottom neighborhood. This funding will support efforts to preserve the area known as the Devil’s Half-Acre, or Lumpkin’s Jail, as a historical site.”

In addition, nearly $11 million would go “to support efforts to transform Monument Avenue, the historic section of Richmond that was built around Confederate statues as a permanent memorial to the Lost Cause;” $100,000 “to support the Virginia Emancipation and Freedom Monument project on [Richmond’s] Brown’s Island;” and $5 million “to repatriate tombstones from the former Columbian Harmony Cemetery in Washington, D.C. and create the Harmony Living Shoreline memorial.”

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attempt to address the long-term inequities in the allocation of state resources for historical preservation, his statement raises some serious concerns.

We formally asked Gov. Northam for a meeting to discuss these issues.

For nearly 20 years, community activists have worked to educate the public about the great historical significance to the Black community of Shockoe Bottom, once the epicenter of the U.S. domestic slave trade, and to demand its reclamation and proper memorialization.

The first stage in this protracted struggle resulted in Virginia Commonwealth University removing its parking lot that for The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions.

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years desecrated what is now known as Richmond’s African Burial Ground. The second stage succeeded in stopping the effort by corporate leaders and city government to build a commercial baseball stadium in the Bottom.

Since 2015, the third stage of this ongoing struggle has focused on promoting the community-generated proposal for a nine-acre Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park to include the Devil’s Half-Acre, where the notorious Lumpkin slave jail once stood; the 3.1-acre African Burial Ground; and two more blocks east of the CSX railroad tracks where at least three more slave jails once were located along with numerous slave trader offices and some of the many businesses that supported the enormously profitable slave trade.

This proposal, widely endorsed at the many public hearings sponsored first by the Defenders, and then by Mayor Dwight Jones’ Richmond Speaks project, the SmithGroupJJR and the Rose Fellowship, now has been incorporated into the Shockoe Bottom small-area plan being developed by Mayor Levar Stoney’s Shockoe Alliance.

And yet, while Gov. Northam’s announcement mentions a “Slavery Heritage Site” and improvements to the “Slave Trail,” it states that “This funding will support efforts to preserve the area known as the Devil’s Half-Acre, or Lumpkin’s Jail, as a historical site.” There is no mention of either the first municipal African Burial Ground or the two blocks east of the railroad tracks.

Further, the governor’s statement includes the assertion that “Hundreds of thousands of enslaved persons were forced to pass through Lumpkin’s Jail,” as if this one site constituted the entire Shockoe Bottom slave trade, ignoring the existence of the 40-50 auction houses in the Bottom, as well as the half-dozen or so other slave jails and large trading complexes that contributed to the scale of that human trafficking.

In other words, there is no mention, no funding allocated, for the rest of the nine-acre Shockoe Bottom Memorial Park. the admittedly modest size of which still would much better express the enormity of Richmond’s slave-

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Business Incubator project could not go forward. An (from page 3) email exchange with Duncan check with Dunlap, who said the city expected RRHA to recover the bank building once a judgment was entered. Dixon met with Duncan in September and again in November, according to the emails, but he said his offer never received a response.

“The fact of the matter is that we’ve been trying to resolve this for over a year and a half,” Dixon said. “We provided a letter to the mayor’s office over a year and a half ago expressing our will to resolve it amicably. We did all those things.”

Dixon contends that the city stopped trying to work with him because of media coverage surrounding the Brookland Park project. He said the media coverage, and the city’s response to it, has been disproportionate compared to other economic development deals.

“This is the most aggressive that the City of Richmond has gone after any development deal,” Dixon said. “If we can find an amicable way, I want to do whatever way is amicable. But this was designed to end me.”

The bank building remains under the ownership of another of Dixon’s business entities, 201 West Brookland Park LLC, which lists his Broad Street apartment as its principal office.

New location Dixon said he turned his attention to the Broad Street space once it became clear that the bank building

shows that he had been planning a “business innovation center” in the Broad Street space since at least last November, with a goal of opening it at the start of this year.

Now targeted to open early next year, the Broad Street accelerator appears to be a go, with the groundfloor commercial space built out with meeting rooms, a kitchen area and other spaces. The storefront previously housed an Aroma Café coffee shop.

Dixon said he signed a five-year lease last month for the 2,700 square-foot space, which includes a basement that he wants to use as a food processing and distribution area for a farm-to-table program to support Black farmers. He’s working with Charles Shannon of Richmondbased group Faith Leaders Moving Forward to develop the program.

While the center has yet to open, Dixon, who’s pursuing an MBA from William & Mary through its online program, said he’s been working with dozens of startups that would use the accelerator for business training, shared equipment and other resources.

He said use of the facility would be subscription-based, with an emphasis on helping Black entrepreneurs, though he said all first-time business owners would be welcome.

“The project itself was not about the building; it was about the innovation center,” Dixon said.

“Instead of being disconnected, we’re bringing people together.” -RBiz

Shockoe Bottom (from page 4) trading enterprise from which the majority of today’s AfricanAmericans could likely trace some ancestry. Yes, the slave-trading district of Shockoe Bottom was second in size only to that of New Orleans, but its true significance lies in the fact that it was the wholesale center that supplied the retail markets throughout the Deep South. It was in fact, the fountainhead of this inhuman trade.

It is worth noting here that, nine years after the reclamation of the African Burial Ground, Richmond’s city government has yet to enact any kind of protective zoning for that sacred ground.

We are well aware that “developers” known for their financial generosity to local politicians strongly covet the asyet-undeveloped land in Shockoe Bottom, and that powerful corporate figures are opposed to Richmond’s national image being expanded to include its central role in the domestic slave trade.

These two factors are what have made reclaiming and properly memorializing Shockoe Bottom such a long and difficult struggle. But it is a struggle that has captured the imagination and dedication of thousands of community members determined to see it come to a positive conclusion, with a nine-acre

memorial park.

As volunteer advocates who have devoted nearly 20 years to this effort, we call on Gov. Northam to clarify what he means by a “Slavery Hertiage Site” and whether this would include the memorial park.

And, if so, we ask him to publicly declare his support for protective zoning for the footprint of the full nine acres. This really is the critical next step in the proper development of Shockoe Bottom.

In addition, we would caution the governor about spending $11 million for the transformation of Monument Avenue. The now-empty pedestals that once supported statues of four Confederate leaders, and the one that still supports the statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee, are transformation enough for now. Too many Virginia households are facing a tsunami of evictions, too many workers are without jobs and too many small businesses are facing financial ruin to justify spending state money on what would essentially be an attempt to mollify homeowners along Monument Avenue who felt inconvenienced by this year’s Black Lives Matter protests by building up their already significant property values.

Edwards is chair of Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project of the Virginia Defenders for Freedom, Justice & Equality. Wilayto is editor of The Virginia Defender newspaper

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF AN APPLICATION BY VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL TO MODIFY RATE SCHEDULES DESIGNATED RATE SCHEDULE MBR, RATE SCHEDULE MBR-GS-3, AND RATE SCHEDULE MBR-GS-4 CASE NO. PUR-2020-00272 On November 20, 2020, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion” or “Company”) pursuant to § 56-234 B of the Code of Virginia (“Code”) and Rule 80 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”) of the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”), filed with the Commission an application (“Application”) to modify the Company’s current market-based rate (“MBR”) schedules, designated Rate Schedule MBR (the “New MBR Rate Schedule”), and Rate Schedules MBR-GS-3 and MBR-GS-4 (the “Initial MBR Rate Schedules”) (collectively, “MBR Rate Schedules”). Through its Application, Dominion seeks the Commission’s approval to (1) modify the MBR Rate Schedules to comply with the statutory mandates concerning non-bypassable charges in Code §§ 10.1-1402.03 H, 56-585.1:11, and 56-585.5 F, and (2) increase the aggregate participation cap for the New MBR Rate Schedule from 200 megawatts (“MW”) to 600 MW for jurisdictional customers. Pursuant to Code § 56-234 B, the Commission’s final order in this matter must be entered the earlier of (i) not more than six months after the filing or (ii) not more than three months after the date of any evidentiary hearing on the filing.

The Initial MBR Rate Schedules were approved September 23, 2016, and are structured to reflect market-based pricing in the PJM Interconnection, L.L.C. (“PJM”) wholesale market. The Initial MBR Rate Schedules are applicable to qualifying customers who would otherwise take service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4. The Initial MBR Rate Schedules are set to expire December 31, 2022.

In Case No. PUR-2018-00192, the Company sought approval to establish a new voluntary non-experimental market-based rate schedule, the New MBR Rate Schedule, under Code § 56-234 A, applicable to qualifying customers who would otherwise take service under Rate Schedule GS-3 or Rate Schedule GS-4. The Application states that, as proposed, the New MBR Rate Schedule was also based on market-based rate pricing in the PJM wholesale market; however, according to the Company, it contained “several significant improvements” over the Initial MBR Rate Schedules. The Commission approved the New MBR Rate Schedule on an experimental basis on January 14, 2020, effective for usage on and after March 1, 2020. The New MBR Rate Schedule Final Order capped participation in the New MBR Rate Schedule at 200 MW, imposed a sunset on the enrollment after three years (on November 1, 2022), and established an expiration date of January 1, 2026, for the New MBR Rate Schedule.

As described in the Application, effective July 1, 2020, the Virginia Clean Economy Act (“VCEA”), among other things, directs the Company to participate in a renewable energy portfolio standard program (“RPS Program”), through which the Company must petition the Commission for approval of new solar and onshore wind generation capacity. The Application states that the VCEA requires the Company to recover certain costs of compliance with the RPS Program, as well as costs to construct or acquire offshore wind generation capacity after July 1, 2020, from all retail customers, absent a qualifying exception, as a non-bypassable charge, irrespective of a customer’s generation supplier.

The Application further states that Code § 10.1-1402.03 H requires that: “[a]ll costs associated with closure of a [coal combustion residuals] unit in accordance with this section” shall be recovered through a rate adjustment clause authorized by the Commission under Code § 56-585.1 A 5 e, provided that, among other things, “any such costs shall be allocated to all customers of the utility in the Commonwealth as a non-bypassable charge, irrespective of the generation supplier of any such customer[.]”

The Company states that the above-described requirements of the VCEA necessitate certain limited modifications to the MBR Rate Schedules to implement the non-bypassable charges, which are incremental to the existing charges.

Dominion further requests approval of an increase in the aggregate participation cap for the New MBR Rate Schedule from 200 MW to 600 MW for jurisdictional customers.

According to the Application, as of the date of filing, 129 MW are enrolled in the New MBR Rate Schedule, with another 32 MW currently in the enrollment process to take service under that rate schedule, leaving 39 MW remaining under the 200 MW cap. The Company requests to increase the participation cap in order to accommodate (1) growth of customers currently enrolled in the New MBR Rate Schedule, many of whom are data centers, (2) “significant interest in the New MBR Rate Schedule from eligible customers,” and (3) the migration of customers currently taking service under the Initial MBR Rate Schedules, which will expire December 31, 2022.

The Company asserts that increasing the participation cap in the New MBR Rate Schedule is in the public interest because it will (1) enable the Company to continue to provide this offering to interested customers and help encourage economic development in the Commonwealth; (2) “help ensure that the New MBR Rate Schedule can continue to provide a competitive avenue that allows the Company to serve choice-eligible customers in a just and reasonable manner, and that prevents reallocation of costs to nonparticipants;” and (3) help the Company “to acquire additional information on how utility-provided market-based pricing impacts customers’ business decisions.”

The Commission entered an Order for Notice and Hearing that, among other things, scheduled public hearings on the Application. On March 8, 2021, at 10 a.m., the Commission will hold a telephonic hearing, with no witness present in the Commission’s courtroom, for the purpose of receiving the testimony of public witnesses. On or before March 4, 2021, any person desiring to offer testimony as a public witness shall provide to the Commission (a) your name, and (b) the telephone number that you wish the Commission to call during the hearing to receive your testimony. This information may be provided to the Commission in three ways: (i) by filling out a form on the Commission’s website at scc.virginia.gov/ pages/Webcasting; (ii) by completing and emailing the PDF version of this form to SCCInfo@scc.virginia.gov; or (iii) by calling (804) 371-9141. This public witness hearing will be webcast at scc.virginia.gov/pages/Webcasting.

A public evidentiary hearing shall be convened at 10 a.m. on March 9, 2021, to receive the testimony and evidence of the Company, any respondents, and Staff. Further details on the hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling.

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter should be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice. Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

An electronic copy of the Company’s Application may be viewed on the Commission’s website or may be obtained by submitting a request to counsel for the Company: David J. DePippo, Esquire, Dominion Energy Services, Inc., 120 Tredegar Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, david.j.depippo@dominionenergy.com.

On or before March 9, 2021, any interested person may file comments on the Application by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments or by filing such comments with the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. Compact discs or any other form of electronic storage medium may not be filed with the comments. All such comments shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00272.

On or before January 15, 2021, any interested person or entity may participate as a respondent by filing, with the Clerk of the Commission at the address above or scc.virginia.gov/ clk/efiling/, a notice of participation in accordance with the Commission’s Rules of Practice. Notices of participation shall include the email addresses of the party or its counsel.

The respondent simultaneously shall serve a copy of the notice of participation on counsel to the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. Any organization, corporation, or government body participating as a respondent must be represented by counsel as required by 5 VAC 5-20-30, Counsel, of the Rules of Practice. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2020-00272. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing.

On or before February 5, 2021, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission and serve on the Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, including 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service; and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR- 2020-00272.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Company’s Application, the Commission’s Rules of Practice, and the Commission’s Order for Notice and Hearing may be viewed at the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case-Information.

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