(b) After the conversion, if a tenant ceases to receive a SCRIE or DRIE, the owner, without making application to DHCR, may reduce the rent in accordance with the schedule of rent reductions set forth in Operational Bulletin 2003-1, and thereafter the tenant is responsible for the cost of his or her consumption of electricity, and for the legal rent as reduced, including any applicable major capital improvement rent increase based upon the cost of work done to effectuate the electrical conversion, for as long as the tenant is not receiving a SCRIE or DRIE. Thereafter, in the event that the tenant resumes receiving a SCRIE or DRIE, the owner, without making application to DHCR, is required to eliminate the rent reduction and resume responsibility for the tenant's electric bills.
(iv) Every three years, upon the publication of a new housing vacancy survey, and tabulation of the survey data by the New York City Rent Guidelines Board, DHCR shall issue a new operational bulletin governing electrical conversions setting forth rent reductions based on the new survey data, and shall move to amend the regulations to incorporate by reference the new operational bulletin, housing vacancy survey, and rent guidelines board tabulation. At such time as NYSERDA issues a new residential electric submetering manual setting forth a new maximum estimated submetering service fee, DHCR shall move to amend the regulations to incorporate that document by reference;
(4) such decrease is not inconsistent with the RSL or this Code. No such reduction in rent or decrease in services shall take place prior to the approval by the DHCR of the owner's application, except that a service decrease pursuant to paragraph (2) of this subdivision may take place prior to such approval.