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                                                      PRINTER'S NO. 3270

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2260 Session of 2008


        INTRODUCED BY PRESTON, GODSHALL, BENNINGTON, BISHOP, BRENNAN,
           CALTAGIRONE, HARKINS, HENNESSEY, JOSEPHS, KOTIK, MARSHALL,
           PASHINSKI, PETRONE, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, WALKO,
           J. WHITE AND YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 26, 2008

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 26, 2008

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 66 (Public Utilities) of the Pennsylvania
     2     Consolidated Statutes, further providing for sliding scale of
     3     rates and adjustments.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 1307(g) of Title 66 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 1307.  Sliding scale of rates; adjustments.
     9     * * *
    10     (g)  Recovery of costs related to distribution system or
    11  collection system improvement projects designed to enhance water
    12  quality and wastewater quality, fire protection reliability and
    13  long-term system viability.--Water and wastewater utilities may
    14  file tariffs establishing a sliding scale of rates or other
    15  method for the automatic adjustment of the rates of the water
    16  utility and wastewater utility as shall provide for recovery of
    17  the fixed costs (depreciation and pretax return) of certain


     1  distribution system or collection system improvement projects,
     2  as approved by the commission, that are completed and placed in
     3  service between base rate proceedings. The commission, by
     4  regulation or order, shall prescribe the specific procedures to
     5  be followed in establishing the sliding scale or other automatic
     6  adjustment method.
     7     * * *
     8     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.















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