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Show Rate Decrease Approved Salt Lake City The Utah Public Service Commission issued a Supplemental Sup-plemental Order Friday granting Mountain Fuel Supply Company's request to decrease by $1,921,813 a natural nat-ural gas rate increase scheduled to take effect in the Company's Utah service area on Saturday (March 1). Mountain Fuel had asked for a rate decrease in the amount of $881,505 and a rate suspension until May 1 of an additional $1,040,308. Together the two figures total $1,921,813. The decrease Mountain Fuel asked for came about when the Company questioned question-ed a previously issued Federal Fed-eral Power Commission order which authorized increases in-creases in nationwide and area prices for natural gas and gave rise to increases in the charges made to Mountain Moun-tain Fuel by some of its suppliers. The amount which the Company had asked be suspended sus-pended until May 1 is due in turn to delays by some producer-suppliers to obtain by March 1 FPC approval of increased in-creased prices for their gas supplied to Mountain Fuel. In granting the total decrease de-crease of $1,921,813, the Utah Commission said the Company Com-pany should file in the future for further rate relief if the amounts delayed actually become be-come effective at a later date. |