Setting Local Telephone and Electric Rates Is the Responsibility of the

question 39

Multiple Choice

Setting local telephone and electric rates is the responsibility of the

• A) Public Utilities Commission.
• B) comptroller of public accounts.
• C) attorney general.
• D) federal Department of Energy.
• E) utility companies; there is no state regulation of these.

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