5.5.09 Pocono Record: Susqehanna-Roseland transmission line hearing planned in Clarks Summit

The Pocono Record announces the next meeting the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission (PUC) has scheduled for public input on PPL’s proposed Susquehanna-Roseland transmission line.

6:30 p.m. May 21, 2009
Newton Ransom Fire Hall
1890 Newton Ransom Blvd.
Clarks Summit, PA 18411

Information on the transmission line siting process is available on the Commission’s Web site.

Members of the public are welcome to attend the hearings and provide comments. Customer testimony will become part of the record on which the PUC will issue its final decision. The PUC and state Office of Consumer Advocate, which represents residential customers in rate cases, offer tips on how to participate.
They include:

Sign in to testify when you arrive. The judge will call witnesses to speak from the order they have signed in.

Prepare what you are going to say beforehand. Even though it is not required, you may want to write out your statement, which can be read.

Bring copies. If you have a written statement you would like to give to the judge as evidence, please bring two copies for the court reporter and several copies for the other participants.

Your testimony will not become part of the record in the proceeding unless you swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give is truthful.

Plan to be questioned. Parties in the case may want to ask you a question to clarify something you said.

In considering the project, the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission will balance the needs of consumers and utilities to ensure safe and reliable utility service at reasonable rates; protect the public interest; educate consumers to make independent and informed utility choices; further economic development; and foster new technologies and competitive markets in an environmentally sound manner.