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Governor wants input on utility regulation bill

June 14, 1999 By admin

Governor Vilsack has appointed an attorney to the Iowa Utilities Board –and the Governor hopes to make changes in a bill which would restructure theelectric utility industry. Diane Munns of Des Moines is the newest memberof the three-person Utilities Board which regulates the state’s telephoneand electric utilities.Munns says utilities are in a dramatic period of transition.Governor Vilsack wants to be a “facilitator” in summertime talks amonglegislators, consumer advocates and utilities officials who’re drafting abill which would restructure the industry.Vilsack says it’s important for Iowa to enact its own legislation.Vilsack says electric “re-structuring” will be different from deregulationof the telephone and airline industries because specific utilities willstill be required to provide transmission service to certain customers,ensuring a method of trasmitting electricity.

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Filed Under: Politics / Govt Tagged With: Legislature, Tom Vilsack

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