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Show PSC resolves questions again impasses as possible. Chairwoman Bernard set aside Dec. 17 as a tentative hearing date to consider con-sider unresolved issues that the Commission anticipates may end up before them. The hearing was called for because southwest Utah cities didn't feel they were being dealt with fairly on the negotiations to buy. To prepare for the upcoming negotiations and appearance before the PSC, the Federation and the Southwest Utah Power Agency have scheduled a meeting for this evening at 8 in the Cedar City Council Room. All mayors, City Council members and interested citizens are invited to attend. SALT LAKE CITY - The Utah Public Service Commission last week answered a big question for the Southwest South-west Utah Cooperative Power Federation and the cities in the area which are trying to establish a municipal electric system. And the answer, according to area officials, is in favor of the cities. At the closing of hearings last week, PSC Chairwoman Millie Bernard strongly reaffirmed the fact that the Commission is concerned with aiding cities in obtaining their power distribution systems, said Federation President Barbara Starr. She directed Utah Power & Light, which currently owns the system, to work on negotiations with the com munities, cautioning the company that since many of the small municipalities involved were obviously not as sophisticated in negotiations as UP&L that "communications must take place above and beyond the letter of the law." The Commission also ordered that once option agreements for the purchase pur-chase of the properties by the individual in-dividual cities are drafted, that each city be given a 60-day time extension during which they could determine whether or not to sign the agreements. Because of what appears to be a stalemate in PSC-ordered negotiations between UP&L and the cities for the system, the PSC also ordered that an arbitrator be assigned to the negotiations to settle as many of the |