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Show Times Newspaper Wednesday, April 4, 2001 Page 16 Public hearings on natural gas rates to be held April 5 The Utah Public Service Commission Com-mission (PSC) has schedule a public pub-lic hearing for Thursday, April 5, at 5:30 p.m. to provide Utah residents resi-dents another opportunity to make comments on recent natural natu-ral gas rate-increase requests made by Questar Gas. In January, Questar Gas requested re-quested a $167 million increase in its Utah natural gas rates in its semi-annual gas-cost adjustment or "pass-through" filings. Such filings enable the Company to adjust rates each year to reflect changes in gas-supply costs. These costs are passed on to the customer on a dollar-for-dollar basis with no markup On Jan 4, 2001, the PSC granted the request on an interim basis, raising the typical customer's annual bill 28.5 percent per-cent The increase was temporarily tempo-rarily approved based on sharp increases in the coast of wholesale natural gas. A final decision on Questar Gas's pass-through filing will be made after a through analysis has been done and the PSC hears public comment about the increase. The PSC organized two hearings hear-ings in early March; however, few customers participated. As a result, re-sult, the Commission has planned a follow-up hearing that will be broadcast from the University of Utah EDNET facility to several locations in order to give residents in other parts of the state a better bet-ter opportunity to comment. The teleconference will also give customers cus-tomers an opportunity to hear brief explanations about the natural natu-ral gas market, and to receive comments and testimony from Questar Gas. The broadcast will begin at 5:30 p.m. Customers are encouraged to attend and participate. Those who are interested in making comments com-ments during the telecast should contact the remote EDNET site in their area. 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