Utility Rates and People's Counsel for the Public Service Commission: Hearings Before the Committee on the District of Columbia, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 16782 ... September 26 and 30, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 209 sider |
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Side 23 - Shapiro, Some Thoughts on Intervention Before Courts, Agencies and Arbitrators!
Side 183 - That the Commission hereby created shall have authority to inquire into the management of the business of all common carriers subject to the provisions of this act, and shall keep itself informed as to the manner and method in which the same is conducted...
Side 54 - undue discrimination" in rate relationships. 8. Efficiency of the class rates and rate blocks in discouraging wasteful use of service while promoting all justified types and amounts of use: (a) in the control of the total amounts of service supplied by the company...
Side 54 - practical" attributes of simplicity, understandability, public acceptability, and fesibility of application. 2. Freedom from controversies as to proper interpretation. 3. Effectiveness in yielding total revenue requirements under the fair return standard. 4. Revenue stability from year to year. 5. Stability of the rates themselves, with a minimum of unexpected changes seriously adverse to existing customers.
Side 33 - The increase is the minimum required to assure continued adequate and safe service or to provide for necessary expansion to meet future requirements; (3) The increase will achieve the minimum rate of return needed to attract capital at reasonable costs and will not impair the credit of the public utility...
Side 33 - The increase is cost- justified and does not reflect future inflationary expectations; (2) The increase is the minimum required to assure continued adequate and safe service or to provide for necessary expansion to meet future requirements...
Side 34 - ... Commission regulations will be allowed only with respect to the portion of the wage settlement or salary Increase which does not exceed Price Commission regulations or policies. At the present time, the Price Commission's guidelines provide In general that wage or salary increases in excess of 5.5 percent per year are not allowable unless the increase is required by a contract which became binding before November 8, 1971, or unless the excess cost would work an undue hardship on the employer...
Side 33 - Commission finds that such adjustment should be allowed, because of such considerations of public policy, despite difficulties In estimation. In the case of adjustments falling within the latter category, the Commission will require periodic reporting, or impose other protective conditions, to assure that the funds allowed are expended for the purpose intended. In no case will an adjustment be made on the basis of general predictions of Increased costs. 2. In applying the terms of this...
Side 2 - ... judicial proceedings involving the interests of users of the products of or service furnished by public utilities under the jurisdiction of the commission; " (2) Shall represent and appear for petitioners appearing before the commission for the purpose of complaining in matters of rates or service; and " (3) May investigate the service given by, the rates charged by, and the valuation of the properties of, the public utilities under the jurisdiction of the commission.
Side 191 - Act of 1973 empowers the director of that office to "employ and utilize the services of attorneys and such other personnel as may be required in order properly to protect the interests of those communities and users of rail service which, for whatever reason, such as their size or location, might not be adequately represented in the course of hearings and evaluation which the office is required to conduct and perform under other provisions of this act.