Comment submitted by Dan Chisholm, Sr., MGI Systems, Inc.

Healthcare facilities have been severely affected by the restrictions placed on them by the provisions of the original ruling enacted June, 2006. To exacerbate the problem there has been an increase in power interruptions in several areas of the country resulting from utilities not having the infrastructure to handle increased loads in times of inclement weather and power anomalies. To mitigate the inherent dangers of these issues healthcare facilities have sought to enter into Demand Response agreements with their electric utilities in order to be pro-active when power unreliability can be reasonable predicted. Unfortunately, power problems are going to increase, and will probably total in excess of 15 hours during any given year in certain areas. Therefore we are respectfully requesting that the proposed provisions of §60.4211(f)(4) be changed to read as per the attached recommendation.