The Missouri Public Service Commission regulates investor-owned electric, steam, natural gas, water and sewer and telephone companies. Its mission is to ensure Missouri consumers have access to safe, reliable and reasonably priced utility service while allowing those utility companies under our jurisdiction an opportunity to earn a reasonable return on their investment. The PSC also regulates manufacturers and retail dealers who sell new and used manufactured homes and modular units. The commission was established in 1913. The PSC is comprised of five commissioners, who are appointed by the governor.
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PR-08-148 -- PSC To Hold Local Public Hearing In Dexter in Stoddard County Sewer Company Case
Contact: Kevin Kelly (573) 751-9300
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 28, 2008
JEFFERSON CITY—The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Dexter, Missouri on June 4, 2007, to receive customer comment in a sewer case filed by Stoddard County Sewer Company, Inc. (Stoddard County), R.D. Sewer Co., L.L.C. (R.D. Sewer) and the PSC staff. The joint applicants seek commission authority for the transfer of Stoddard County’s assets to R.D. Sewer. The joint application also seeks an interim sewer rate increase.
Residential customers currently pay $11.40 a month for sewer service. As part of this application, R.D. Sewer seeks interim rate relief which would increase that flat monthly sewer bill to $22.80.
The local public hearing schedule appears below.
June 4, 2008
Dexter High School Auditorium
1101 West Grant
5:00 pm PSC Staff Information Session
5:30 pm Local Public Hearing Begins*
* The local public hearing will be held from 5:30 pm until 9:00 pm or until all those wishing to testify have been given an opportunity to do so, whichever is sooner.
This local public hearing will be held in a building that meets accessibility standards required by the Americans with Disabilities Act. If a customer needs additional accommodations to participate in this hearing, please call the Public Service Commission’s hotline at 1-800-392-4211 (voice) or Relay Missouri at 711 prior to the hearing.
Those wishing to comment or secure information may contact the Office of the Public Counsel, P.O. Box 2230, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-2230, telephone (866) 922-2959, email opcservice@ded.mo.gov or the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, telephone 800-392-4211, email pscinfo@psc.mo.gov Comments may also be registered in this case (SO-2008-0289) using the Public Service Commission’s internet electronic filing and information system at https://www.efis.psc.mo.gov/mpsc/Comments.html
Formal evidentiary hearings are scheduled for July 1-2, 2008, in this case. Those hearings will be held in Room 310 of the Governor Office Building (200 Madison Street) in Jefferson City.
Stoddard County Sewer Company, Inc. serves approximately 172 sewer customers in the Ecology Acres and Western Heights subdivisions and Grant Apartments near Dexter, Missouri.
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Case No. SO-2008-0289