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(d) Release of documents.--In addition to any other
requirements imposed by law, including the [act of June 21, 1957
(P.L.390, No.212), referred to as the Right-to-Know Law, and the
act of July 3, 1986 (P.L.388, No.84) known as the Sunshine Act,]
provisions of 2 Pa.C.S. Pt. IV (relating to Right-to-Know) and
65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings), whenever the
commission conducts an investigation of an act or practice of a
public utility and makes a decision, enters into a settlement
with a public utility or takes any other official action, as
defined in the Sunshine Act, with respect to its investigation,
it shall make part of the public record and release publicly any
documents relied upon by the commission in reaching its
determination, whether prepared by consultants or commission
employees, other than documents protected by legal privilege;
provided, however, that if a document contains trade secrets or
proprietary information and it has been determined by the
commission that harm to the person claiming the privilege would
be substantial or if a document required to be released under
this section contains identifying information which would
operate to the prejudice or impairment of a person's reputation
or personal security, or information that would lead to the
disclosure of a confidential source or subject a person to
potential economic retaliation as a result of their cooperation
with a commission investigation, or information which, if
disclosed to the public, could be used for criminal or
terroristic purposes, the identifying information may be
expurgated from the copy of the document made part of the public
record. For the purposes of this section, "a document" means a
report, memorandum or other document prepared for or used by the
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