Report of the Georgia public service commission. One hundred and third report, 1975

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Atlanta, Georgia 30334

A .O. RANDALL, s e c r e t a r y

To His Excellency George D. Busbee Governor of Georgia Dear Governor Busbee: As provided by law, the Georgia Public Service Commission submits herewith the 103rd Annual Report of the regulatory activities of the Commission for the year ending December
31, 1975.
Respectfully submitted,
Ben T. Wiggins, ^S^irrnan
&h, Vice Chairman
Mac Barber, Commissioner
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S T A T E OF G E O R G I A GEORGE D. BUSBEE, GOVERNOR
103rd Report of
GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION 244 Washington St., S. W. Atlanta, Georgia 30334
January 1, 1975 to January 1, 1976
Ben T,, Wiggins, Chairman William H. Kimbrough, Vice Chairman Mac Barber, Commissioner Robert C. (Bobby) Pafford, Commissioner Ford B. Spinks, Commissioner A, O. Randall, Secretary

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103rd ANNUAL REPORT Introduction
The Annual Report of the Georgia Public Service Commission^ covering the activities for the year ending December 31, 1975, is submitted herewith in compliance with the law.
The personnel of the Commission as of December 31, 1975, were as follows:
Ben T. Wiggins, Chairman William H. Kimbrough, Vice-Chairman Mac Barber, Commissioner Robert C. (Bobby) Pafford, Commissioner Ford B. Spinks, Commissioner
A list of the Commission's professional staff personnel as of December 31, 1975, is as follows:
Administration
David 0. Benson, Executive Director A. O. Randall, Executive Secretary C. Heath Armfield, Jr., Assistant to the Executive Director John R. Price, Hearing Reporter Katherine J. Anderson, Assistant Hearing Reporter W. James Yates, Assistant Hearing Reporter Mrs. Jean B. Trisch, Accountant II Mrs. Jackie B. Thomas, Personnel Officer II Thomas G. Arnold, Administrative Officer
Utilities Engineering
James J. Crudup, Director, Utilities Engineering Billy G. Collier, Utilities Engineer III Robert C. Evans, Utilities Engineer III G. Thomas Fortner, Utilities Engineer III Truman E. Holland, Utilities Engineer III Donald E. McCoy, Utilities Engineer III Cecil D. Bentley, Utilities Engineer II M. Glynn Blanton, Utilities Engineer II Jackson A. Dodd, Utilities Engineer II Ned Guillebeau, Utilities Engineer II Palmer B. Lester, Utilities Engineer II Douglas W. Moski, Utilities Engineer II I. Gilbert Bentley, Utilities Analyst II Benny H. Andrews, Gas Safety Inspector II Mitchell Ingram, Gas Safety Inspector II Charles F. Spencer, Gas Safety Inspector II

Utilities Financial Analysis
Ralph S. McLemore, Jr., Director, Utilities Financial Analysis John W. Buckingham, Utilities Financial Specialist Beverly B. Knowles, Utilities Financial Specialist James H. Cole, Utilities Analyst II Donald H. Craig, Utilities Analyst II Nolan E. Ragsdale, Utilities Analyst II Linda Surian, Utilities Analyst I S. D. Weaver, Utilities Analyst I Mrs. Caroline Williamson, Utilities Analyst I Ricky A. Keown, Utilities Analyst Trainee Walter A. Lawrence Jr., Utilities Analyst Trainee J. Eugene Pope, Utilities Analyst Trainee G. Richard Puckett, Utilities Analyst Trainee Jane Rollins, Utilities Analyst Trainee Bernard Goss, Economist
Transportation Rates and Services
Horace F. Hartley, Director, Transportation Rates and Services Gordon E. Ganka, Transportation Rates Specialist III Robert R. Ginn, Transportation Rates Specialist III Albert R. Bush, Transportation Rates Specialist II J. Donald McGouirk, Transportation Rates Specialist II George E. Thurmond, Transportation Rates Specialist II
Motor Carrier Certification and Enforcement
L. Thomas Doyal, Sr., Director, Motor Carrier Certification and Enforcement
Lucia Ramey, Transportation Rates Specialist II David R. Meeks, Chief Transportation Supervisor Judson L. McGinnis, Division Transportation Supervisor Chester A. Whitley, Division Transportation Supervisor M. C. Dalton, Jr., Registration Officer
During the year the Commission conducted 656 public hearings. Public hearings commence on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month and continue on successive days thereafter until all current applications and petitions have been disposed of. All matters docketed for public hearing are heard by the entire Commission in open session, a majority of the Commission constituting a quorum.
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Rules and Regulations
under the Administrative Procedure Act
Effective January 1, 1976
The following Order was issued by the Commission in Administrative Session on December 16, 1975 s
In Re: Docket No. 2908-U, Proposed adoption of Utility Rules in the format required by the Administrative Procedure Division of the Secretary of State (Railroads and Motor Carriers excepted, which will continue to be subject to existing Rules) effective January 1, 1976.
B THE COMMISSION:
WHEREAS, the last issue of the Laws and Rules adopted by the Commission was published in printed form, and issued January 1, 1973 except for amendments issued and published from time to time subsequent thereto, and
WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on November 13 1975 on the rules and regu lations proposed to be adopted as required by Section 3A--104 of the Code of Georgia, and by virtue of the authority vested in the Commission by law, it is, hereby
ORDERED* That the following Rules and Regulations designated as Chapters 515-1-1. 515-2-1, 515-3-1, 515-4-1, 515-5-1, 515-6-1, 515-7-1, 515-8-1, 515-9-1,
515-10-1, 515-H-l, and 515-12-1, be and the same are hereby adopted, and the
same are hereby made effective on January 1, 1976, which shall apply to all utilities now subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission, except Railroads, Motor Contract Carriers and Motor Common Carriers.
ORDERED FURTHER: That the rules and regulations heretofore issued and pub lished which apply to Railroads, Motor Contract Carriers '.and Motor Common Carriers, continue in full force and effect; that the rules and regulations heretofore issued are hereby cancelled and revoked as to the Utilities covered by the rules and regulations in these chapters as of January 1, 1976.
B ORDER OF THE GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION this the 16th day of December 1975

A.O. Randall, Secretary

Ben T. Wiggins,Chairman

The foregoing Rules were filed with the Administrative Division of the Office of Secretary of State on December 29, 1975

These Rules and Regulations are being published in bound book form. Copies will
be furnished all utilities subject thereto, as well as interested persons re
questing a complimentary copy at postage book rate, with the requirement that
a charge of $1.25 per copy be collected for all additional copies.

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TRANSPORTATION RATES & SERVICES DIVISION

COMMISSION ACTIONS

Railroads & Motor Carriers:

Docket Decisions .... ....... 20 Non-Docket Decisions ....1,325
TOTAL

1,345

During 1975 the Commission and its Transportation Rates and Services staff officially disposed of, in addition to the twenty formal proceedings listed below, 1,325 transpor tation rates and service matters, a considerable number of which required lengthy studies and investigations in the field.

FORMAL CASES FOR YEAR 1975

DOCKET NO. DATE

SUBJECT

DISPOSITION

6847-M

1-21-75

Application of Greyhound Lines, Inc. pertaining to passenger service between Atlanta and Lawrenceville referred to as trips 5314, 6970 and 6971 proposed to be discontinued.

DENIED

6873-M

1-30-75

Application of Greyhound Lines, Inc. to discontinue operation of Run Nos. 5313 and 5315 leaving Calhoun Falls, S.C. at 4:45 P.M. arriving in Atlanta, Georgia at 8:15 P.M. and run Nos. 5312 and 5316 leaving Atlanta, Georgia at 7:15 A.M. arriving in Calhoun Falls, S.C. at 10:10 A.M.

DENIED

6874-M

1-30-75

Application of Greyhound Lines, Inc. seeking authority to discontinue operation of Run Nos. 6276 leaving Lanett, Alabama at 4:02 P.M. arriving in Atlanta, Georgia at 6:55 P.M.

WITHDRAWN BY
APPLICANT

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3-4-75

756-R

3-4-75

6925-M

5-6-75

7018-M

6-9-75

6995-M

6-17-75

7017-M

7-1-75

SUBJECT

DISPOSITION

Application of Greyhound Lines, Inc. to discontinue Run No. 1973 leacing Atlanta, Georgia at 1:00 A.M. arriving Birming ham, Alabama at 3:35 A.M. and Run No. 1908 leaving Birmingham, Alabama at 5:00 A.M. arriving in Atlanta at 9:55 A.M.

APPROVED

Application of National Bus Traffic APPROVED Association, Inc. agent for several motor carriers of passengers, seek ing authority to increase their Georgia Intrastate, Local and Inter line, Intercity Passenger Fares, by ten (10%) percent.

Application of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for authority to cancel TOFC Rates and Services to and from Ringgold, Georgia.

DENIED

Petition of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company for authority to discontinue agency service at Ringgold, Georgia.

DENIED

Application of Southern Motor Carriers Rate Conference on behalf of all Class "A" carriers for authority to increase rates and charges.

APPROVED IN
PART

Application of Greyhound Bus Lines to make certain changes in Trip No. 6903 operating through George town and Fort Gaines, Georgia.

WITHDRAWN BY
APPLICANT

Application of Benton Transport Corporation seeking authority to establish Item 646-B (Commingling of Intrastate and Interstate Freight) as published in Supple ment 8-C to Tariff 2, GPSC-MF 3.

APPROVED IN
PART

Application of Southern Transit, Inc. to discontinue operations between Macon, Georgia and Warner Robins, Georgia, on Sundays and holidays.

APPROVED

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DOCKET NO

DATE

SUBJECT

DISPOSITION

760-R

i-25-75

Application of Southern Freight Tariff Bureau on behalf of participating carriers to increase railroad freight rates (Ex Parte 310-A ) .

APPROVED IN
PART

7122-M

9-25-75

Application of Southeastern Stages, APPROVED Inc. seeking authority to make permanent their abbreviated Sche dule Nos. 92-AA, Pages 1 and 2 between Atlanta and Augusta; 65-AS between Atlanta, Augusta and Savannah and 73-ACM between Atlanta, Decatur, Lithonia, Conyers, Covington and Milledgeville, G a .

7121-M

10-7-75

Application of National Bus Traffic APPROVED

Association , Inc. agent for

IN

Continental Atlantic Lines, Inc.

PART

Continental Southeastern Lines,Inc.

Georgia-Flo rida Coaches, South-

eastern Mot or Lines, Inc. Southern

Transit, In c. and individual

carriers : Continental Crescent Lines,

Inc., Greyh ound Lines, Inc. South-

eastern Sta ges, Inc. and Tennessee

Trailways, Inc., seeking authority

to increase Georgia Intrastate

commutation fares by twenty-five (25%)

percent.

763-R

11-18-75

Application of Southern Freight Tariff Bureau in behalf of parti cipating rail carriers to put into effect on Georgia intrastate traffic, increases in rates on Limestone.

APPROVED IN
PART

764-R

11-18-75

Application of Southern Freight

DENIED

Tariff Bureau in behalf of parti

cipating rail carriers to put into

effect on Georgia intrastate traffic,

increases in rates on Limestone.

765-R 7133-M

12-4-75 12-4-75

charges

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eedi n gs for th e purp ose ing certain pr ope rty loca ount y > Geor gia

on of South ern Mo tor

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APPROVED IN
PART

TRUCK RATES AND SERVICES
By the filing with the Commission on January 24 of a supple ment to the Class "A" Motor Carrier Tariff, all Class "A" carrier parties to that tariff sought authority to place into effect on Georgia intrastate traffic increases in class rates and minimum charges to the level applicable on interstate traffic as of December 16, 1974. Also, commodity rates were proposed to be in creased by approximately 10^% and commodity column rates increased to such extent as to establish a substantial parity with corre sponding interstate rates in effect on December 16, 1974. The Commission declined to authorize such increases without justification at public hearing and suspended the proposed increases for the full five months authorized by law. At the hearing on March 13, evidence was presented by applicant carriers and by protestants. By order dated May 6, the Commission found that the level of earnings of the carriers was below that generally recognized as providing an adequate return and that additional revenue, although not as much as proposed, was needed by the carriers to enable them to provide sufficient service. Therefore, the Commission ordered the proposed increased rates and minimum charges to be cancelled but authorized an increase in the minimum charge to $7.90 per shipment and an increase in less truckload, any quantity and volume or truckload rates by 6%. The order provided that such authorized increases could become effective not earlier than May 20, but should in no instance exceed the amount of increase originally proposed.
In July the Class "A" carriers of general commodities sought to increase their rates and minimum charges on Georgia intrastate traffic by varying amounts. They proposed to increase less truckload or any quantity rates by 10% on shipments weighing less than 2,000 pounds, 5% on shipments weighing 2,000 pounds or more but less than 5,000 pounds and 3% on shipments weighing 5,000 pounds or more. Volume or truckload rates were proposed to be increased by 3% and minimum per shipment charges were proposed to be in creased from a flat charge of $7.90 to a scale of charges ranging from $9.30 for distances of 1 to 50 rate basis miles to $10.85 for distances of 441 to 460 rate basis miles, or, percentagewise, increases ranging from 17.7% to 37.3% above the present minimum charge. The Commission declined to authorize such increases without justification at public hearing and suspended the proposed increases for five months from the proposed effective date. At the hearing on October 9, evidence was presented by applicant carriers and by various protestants. By order dated December 4, the Commission found that the proposal which would result in an overall increase of 9.3%, was not shown to be justified but a need was shown for a lesser amount of additional revenue than that proposed by applicant carriers to enable them to provide continuous and adequate motor carrier service. Under the circumstances, the Commission ordered the proposed increased rates and minimum charges
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to be cancelled but authorized an increase of 3.5% to be applied to less truckload and any quantity rates and 1% on volume or truckload rates to result in an overall increase of 2.5%.
No increase in the minimum charge per shipment was authorized. The order provided that such authorized increases could become effective not earlier than January 2, 1976 but should in no instance exceed corresponding rates applicable on interstate traffic.
RAIL PASSENGER SERVICE
Railroad passenger service in the State of Georgia continues to operate independent of Amtrak and the railroads on December 31, 1974, and again in 1975 did not join Amtrak. The Southern Railway continues to operate their own railroad passenger trains in con junction with Amtrak to destinations beyond their system. Passenger Revenue has increased in the year 1975 due to an appli cation granted by the ICC to increase passenger fares on both Amtrak and other passenger railroads across the nation. The passenger count continues to decline, creating a revenue burden on the Southern Railroad who filed application with the Interstate Commerce Commission to reduce the services of their prime train, the Southern Crescent, that operates daily between Washington, D.C. and Birmingham, Alabama and New Orleans, Louisiana to three days per week. In addition thereto, they wish to have trains No. 5 & 6 the Piedmont that operate between Washington and Atlanta, Georgia discontinued from Charlotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia. Hearing was held on this matter in the Courthouse at Atlanta, Georgia and there were eight witnesses who appeared in protest to the reduction of service and elimination of service from Charlotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia. The railroads proved beyond a doubt that there has been no increase in passengers; as a matter of fact, there has been a further decline in passenger traveling on the Piedmont with only few passengers riding on the train between Toccoa and Atlanta, Georgia Intrastate. The Interstate Commerce Commission granted, after hearing, to allow the Southern Railroad to reduce the services of trains No. 1 & 2, the Southern Crescent to three days per week and discontinue services from Charlotte, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia on the Piedmont. The main thrust of the carriers and consideration given by the Commission relate to the increased operational costs to continue services of passenger trains and without passengers is impossible creating a deficit out of pocket cost to the carrier also continues to burden their freight operating revenues.
RAIL FREIGHT
During the year 1975, there were two general Intrastate Revenue Increase Proceedings involving railroad freight rates related to increases authorized on Interstate Traffic by the Interstate Commerce Commission in Ex-Parte 310-A and Ex-Parte 313-A. Ex-Parte 310-A was an increase in rates and charges of 7%

and was filed on June 20, 1975. The matter was assigned for hearing on July 24, 1975 and nine protestants appeared in opposition to the increase. The Commission granted the 7% in crease applicable on all commodities with the exception of Sand, Gravel and Crushed Stone within the State of Georgia. The rates were authorized to become effective on September 10, 1975.
Ex-Parte 313-A, an application by the Georgia Railroads for a 7h% increase in freight rates and charges consisting of two increments, a 5% increase to become effective on June 20, 1975, and a 2%% increase to become effective on October 1, 1975. This matter was assigned for hearing on November 14, 1975 where twelve protestants appeared in opposition to the general revenue increase. The primary products concerned were Sand, Gravel, Iron and Steel Articles and Scrap, Stone, broken, crushed, or ground and Cement. At the conclusion of the year 1975 the Commission is still con sidering this matter due to the numerous protests in opposition to the granting of this increase.
The L & N Railroad filed an application to eliminate trailer on flat-car service at Ringgold, Georgia and the Commission was informed by the shippers that use of this service at Ringgold to oppose elimination of TOFC service in Interstate Commerce as well as in Intrastate Commerce. The L & N Railroad, in filing with the Interstate Commerce Commission, limited the protestants from filing proper and just objections requesting suspension and hearing be held on this matter before the Interstate Commerce Commission. Shipper request for suspension was denied by the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Interstate Rates were cancelled. The Commission heard the Intrastate Application for elimination of TOFC Service at Ringgold and denied the carriers the authority to discontinue this service. The L & N Railroad objecting to Georgia Public Service Commission's denial, filed a Section 13 application with the Interstate Commerce Commission requesting that Commission to overrule the authority of the Georgia Public Service Commission on Intrastate Commerce.
The Georgia Railroads, on August 1, 1975 filed application to increase the rates on limestone in the State of Georgia. The Commission received protests on this matter objecting to the high increase level sought by the carriers on this commodity. The matter was suspended and set for hearing on October 30, 1975. The Commission, after reviewing the evidence denied the application to increase the rates on limestone and ordered the Georgia rail roads to publish a lower scale of rates offered into evidence at the hearing November 18, 1975.

CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS
In December, the Seaboard Coast Line Rail ro ad Company so ught a u t h o r i t y to i n s t i t u t e c o n d e m n a t i o n p r o c e e d i n g s to acquire certain pr op er ty in Ware County, Georgia to be used to expand the yards for the prupose of facilitating its railroad op er at io n at Waycross, Georgia. Fo ll ow in g hearing, the Commission found that there would be no station elimina tion resulting from the construction and that it was clear that such enlarged facilities would enable the railroad to provide more economic and expeditious handling of railroad traffic, and approved the institution of the condemnation proceedings of the purpose sought.
M O B I L E RA IL AGENCY S E R V I C E
There has been revi ew ed in detail in the re po rt s of the last several years the mobile agency concept of providing agency service to a number of stations under which one agent can p e r f o r m the n e ed ed serv ic es at a sa vi ng s to the ra ilroad while adequately handling the needs of the public at the involved points. During the year, ten additional operations were authorized on a permanent basis. As in all previously approved mobile agency operations, the Commission considered a u t h or iz at io n to institute these ten mo bile agencies to be only a s i x - m o n t h s ' test p e ri od and to be su bject to the same investigation proceedings during that p e ri od as had been observed by the Commission in such prior proceedings.
It should be here poin te d out, that at the close of the year all of the mobile agencies previously authorized on either a trial or permanent basis were operating effectively and that the Commission had not received a single complaint against the services so rendered.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS
I JOINT BOARD PROCEEDINGS
MOTOR CARRIERS
1. P a l m e r Mo to r E x p r e s s of S a v a n n a h ICC D o ck et No. M C - 1 3 6 3 8 4 (Sub. No. 7) Briefs filed. Decision Pending.
2. S o u t h e r n I n t e r m o d a l L o g i s t i c s , Inc. ICC D o c k e t No. M C - 1 3 6 2 8 5 (Sub. No. 10) Application Granted.
3. R e e v e s T r a n s p o r t a t i o n C o m p a n y ICC D o c k e t No. M C - 129537 (Sub. No. 13) Application Granted.
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PARTICIPATION IN INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION PROCEEDINGS
I. JOINT BOARD PROCEEDINGS
MOTOR CARRIERS
Hilton Head Truck Lines ICC D o c k e t No. 115300 (Sub. No. 2) Application Denied.
Brown Transport Corporation ICC Docket No. MC-56679 (Sub. No. 80) Application Dismissed By A p p l i c a n t .
Brown Transport Corporation ICC Docket No. MC-56679 (Sub. No. 84) Application Denied.
S o u t h e a s t e r n Tran sf er and Storage Co. ICC D o c k e t No. M C - 1 3 4 8 3 8 (Sub. No. 11) Application Granted.
Associated Petroleum Carriers ICC Docket No. M C - 1 0 6 1 1 9 (Sub. No. 22) Application Pending.
Southeastern Freight Lines ICC Docket No. MC C-7925 Application Pending.
Greyhound Lines, Inc. vs Tennessee Trailways, Inc. ICC Docket No.MC C-8636 Application Pending.
Brown Transport Corporation ICC Docket No. MC 94201 (Sub. No. 132) Application Granted.
II. RAILROAD ABANDONMENT PROCEEDINGS
ICC D o ck et A B - 2 6 (Sub. No. 9) S o u t h e r n R a i l r o a d A b a n d o n ment of service over a line of track between Piedmont, Alabama and Atlanta Junction, Georgia.
He ar in g: D e c e m b e r 2 and 3, 1975, ICC I n i t i a l D e c i si on :

2. ICC D o c k e t A B - 2 6 (Sub. No. 4) S o u t h e r n R a i l w a y A p p l i c a t i o n for abandonment of railroad track between Williamson and Roberta, Georgia. Hearing: Ja nu ar y 16, 1976, ICC Initial Decision: Pending
3. ICC D o c k e t A B - 2 6 (Sub. No. 5) G e o r g i a N o r t h e r n R a i l w a y abandonment of service over rail tracks between Albany and Cordele, Georgia. Hearing: Not set to date, ICC Initial Decision: Pending hearing
4. ICC D o c k e t A B - 2 6 (Sub. No. 6) S o u t h e r n R a i l w a y A p p l i c a t i o n to abandon the bridge at H a w k i n s v i l l e , Georgia account obsolete. Hearing: No Protestants, No hearing held. ICC Initial Decision: Granted
BUS FARES AND CHARGES
By the end of 1975, there w e r e 57 ce r t i f i e d ca rriers operating under the jurisdiction of the Commission providing passenger and package express service between substantially all areas of the state.
E f f e c t i v e N o v e m b e r , 1975, tr ansportation to the W e s t e r n ,
No rt he rn , N o r t h e a s t e r n and C e n t r a 1 portions of the st at e w a s
af fe c t e d w h e n S o u t h e a s t e r n M o t o r Lines, Continent al Southeastern, Tennessee Trailways and Southern Transit surrendered their i n t r a s t a t e a u t h o r i t y and ce ased operations to some 61 towns and cities. A p o r t i o n of the aff ected area did re c e i v e p a s s e n g e r se r v i c e u p o n a p p l i c a t i o n for and the granting of the a u t h o r i t y to five c a r r i e r s w h o s e r v e d the a rea between Carr o i l t o n - A t l a n t a ; Canton-Atlanta; Commerce-Atlanta * Dillard-Atlanta and MaconWarner Robins, Georgia.
There was still an increase of eight carriers over last y e a r 's total. The routes covered remains substantially the same. There were still some portions of the state that did not have service of any kind.
A number of the intrastate carriers filed for authority to make changes in their scheduled operations and hearings were required on eight of these applications. Following the hearings, the Commission found in some instances that the public convenience and necessity would not be served and denied some of the appli cations while granting authority in orders.
Additional applications for changes in scheduled authority and changes in individual tariffs were handled by the Commission not requiring a formal hearing.
Hearings were held on request by National Bus Traffic Association for increase in Georgia Intrastate Local, Interline,
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BUS FARES AND CHARGES CON *T .
Hearings were held on request by National Bus Traffic Association for increase in Georgia Intra state Local, Interline, Intercity Passenger Fares, Package Express and Commuter Fares and Charges during the year. Following a hearing on December 12, 1974, a u t h o r i t y was g r a n t e d in F e b r u a r y of 1975 to increase bus fares, charter coach rates and bus express rates. Increases in commuter fares were granted the Class "A" Passenger Carriers in October of 1975 following a hearing in September of 1975.
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TRANSPORTATION CERTIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT DIVISION

During the year the Commission conducted four hundred twenty-seven public hearings involving the Transportation Certification and Enforcement Division. Public hearings commence on the second and fourth Tuesdays in each month and con tinue on successive days thereafter until all current applications and petitions have been disposed of. All matters docketed for public hearing are heard by the entire Commission in open session, a majority of the Commission constituting a quorum.

MOTOR CARRIER CERTIFICATE AND VEHICLE REGISTRATION

The Commission is charged with the responsibility of collecting and accounting for motor carrier certificate, permit and vehicle registration fees. The total certificate, permit and vehicle registration fees collected and remitted to the Fiscal Division, Department of Administrative Services, during the year 1975, are as follows:
January 1 , 1975 to January 1, 1976

Certificate fees at $35.00 each, and certificate transfer

fees at $7.50 each

$

6,565.00

Registration Permit fees at $25.00 each and amendment fees at $5.00 each

60,775.00

Regular License fees at $5.00 each (15,4-25-$77,125) and $25.00 penalty each (575-$14,375)

91,500.00

Regular Identification Stamp fees at $5.00 each (177,600$888, 000); Regular Multiple Registration Stamp fees at $1.00 each
(20,823-$20,823) and penalty stamp fees at $25.00 each (1, !83-$29,575)
$

938,398.00
1,097,238.00

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COMMISSION ACTIONS

During the year 1975 the following Administrative Session decisions were made by the Commission:

Motor Carrier Certificate applications:

Approved....................................125

Denied................................... .. 20

Withdrawn.................................. 1#

Dismissed.......

7

Total

170

Certificate transfer applications:

Approved...................

110

Withdrawn................................... 0

Dismissed.................................. 0

Total

110

Certificate amendment applications:

Approved................................... 84

Withdrawn.................................. 0

Denied.......................

2

Dismissed.................................. 0

Total

86

Certificate control through transfer of

capital stock.................

^7

Total

7

Certificates cancelled.......... Certificates suspended....... Certificates reinstated...................

.147 231 138

Total

516

Motor Carrier EmergencyPermits.................. 15 Registration Permits Issued................... 4085 Registration Permits Mended.................. 348 Registration Permits Cancelled (Undetermined) ___

Total

4>448

Rules Nisi issued (otherthanfor insurance)........ 79 Rules Nisi dismissed(otherthan insurance)......... 11

Total

90

Certificate and Permit Insurance Rules Nisi Issued (Undetermined)

Miscellaneous...............................

286

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Total

5,713

CERTIFICATION AND ENFORCEMENT DIVISION

Effective March 1, 1974 the Commission's Transportation Division was reorga nized into two divisions - the Certification and Enforcement Division under the direction of L. T. Doyal, and the Rates and Services Division under the direction of Horace F. Hartley.

The Certification and Enforcement Division is responsible for receiving and processing all motor carrier applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity: all applications to register interstate operating authority in Georgia; maintaining the Commission's motor carrier files; issuance of GPSC vehi cle registration tags or identification stamps; and enforcing the laws of Georgia and rules and regulations of the Commission relative to "for hire" motor transpor
tation. Pagel6 of this report contains a summary of Certificate and Registration
Permit transactions handled by this division as well as other miscellaneous matters. The enforcement section of this division is composed of a Chief Enforcement Officer, two District Supervisors and thirteen Area Transportation Representatives.

The Area Transportation Representatives are assigned specific territories in the state ranging from 'six' counties (Atlanta area) to as many as nineteen coun ties in the southwest section of the state. The Commission's Area Transportation Representatives make detailed inspections of the general operations of motor trans portation companies under the Commission's jurisdiction to determine if they are performing operations within the scope of authority granted by the Georgia Public Service Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission, and in accordance with the Commission's rules and regulations and the laws of Georgia relating to "for hire" motor carrier operations. This includes the day-to-day examination of the regulated carriers' activities throughout their respective territory; conducting investigations relating to carriers' service; examination of the carriers' files, books, etc.; interrogation of carriers' personnel and offering advice to the car riers when needed or requested and conducting periodic road checks. In addition, the Area Transportation Representatives perform other specifically designated assignments related to the functions of the Public Service Commission.

During 1975, a number of concentrated road checks were conducted throughout the state, in addition to many other lesser checks made at strategic locations. The major road checks ranged from three to five days duration, while the lesser checks lasted from several hours to one or two days. All of the Area Transporta tion Representatives operate continuously in their assigned territories and con tinue vigorously to ferret out and eliminate illegal transportation operations. The nature of the illegal operator precludes the establishment of permanent inspection points since Georgia's maze of highways enables the illegal operator to easily cir cumvent any permanently established check point. Our Area Transportation Repre sentatives patrol the highways, investigate industrial sites and examine all other locations where the illegal trucker is possibly operating.

Illegal trucking operations throughout the United States siphon off millions

of dollars annually from legitimate motor carrier operations upon whom the public

depends to ship or receive their wares. The Commission's Area Transportation Re

presentatives are highly trained in detecting the illegal operator and filtering

through the quagmire of fictitious leases, freight bills, logs, etc. which usually

accompany such operations. During 1975, the Commission's enforcement section was
responsible for 1011 arrests made throughout the state stemming solely from intra

state and interstate "for hire" operations without proper authority from either the

Georgia Public Service Commission or the Interstate Commerce Commission. These

cases resulted in bonds totaling $209,710 being posted in the counties where arrests

were made, and represents a twenty-six percent increase in the number of cases

made in 1974.

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The Commission; who helped pioneer the development of the Uniform Registra tion Standards of Public Law 89-170 applicable to carriers operating solely in interstate commerce under authority granted by the Interstate Commerce Commission, or carriers operating in interstate commerce specifically exempt from the juris diction of the Interstate Commerce Commission, continues to operate subject to the above standards. These standards were promulgated by the Interstate Commerce Commission pursuant to the provisions of Section 202(b)(2) of the Interstate Commerce Act (49 U.S.C. Section 302(b)(2) and all of the states were allowed five years from the enactment thereof to adopt these standards. Georgia was one of the first states to adopt the standards and has actively engaged in assisting other states in effectuating these procedures.
In 1971 the Interstate Commerce Commission promulgated certain changes in
the standards to provide for a uniform $5.00 maximum vehicle identification fee.
This amendment resulted in certain Georgia laws pertaining to registration of interstate vehicles being in conflict with the federal law. The Commission, in its desire to comply fully with the P. L. 89-170 Standards, suggested certain changes in the law whereby the registration for all vehicles, both intrastate and interstate, would be $5.00 per vehicle per year. The 1973 Legislature en acted a bill resulting in vehicle registration and identification fees for all vehicles domiciled in Georgia and vehicles domiciled in states where no reciprocity existed with Georgia, being reduced from $25.00 to $5.00 annually. All other motor carrier vehicle registration and identification fees were increased from $1.00 to $5.00 annually. This law became effective for the Commission's 1974 vehicle registration period and places the Commission in complete compliance with P. L. 89-170 Federal Standards.
The Area Transportation Supervision Section continued under the cooperative agreement between the Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission and con ducted several joint investigations with personnel of that Commission for the pur pose of eliminating illegal transportation practices of certain carriers and shippers. As a result of these investigations, federal suits were brought by the I.C.C. against certain large shippers for aiding and abetting illegal trans portation resulting in substantial fines being assessed against those shippers.
Our Area Transportation Representatives continued in 1975 the Commission's program designed to assist in the protection of the public using the highways of Georgia and to apprise the carriers of the operating habits of their drivers. Our Area Transportation Representatives are provided with an appropriate observation form and a tape recorder to enable them to observe motor carrier vehicles while in operation, recording their description, location of inspection, activities and operational violations. Each representative is responsible for making an assigned number of these observation reports daily and copies of the reports are sent to the carriers for their information and appropriate corrective action where they deem it necessary.
The Area Transportation Supervision Section, in addition to the responsibility of processing all motor carrier insurance filings (which numbers over 50,OCX) per year) as well as maintaining all motor carrier files (numbering in excess of
16,000), was responsible for processing 4,433 interstate registration of au
thority applications and amendments thereto and the issuance of all intrastate and interstate Georgia Public Service Commission Motor vehicle registrations which
resulted in the collection of fees summarized on page 15 of this report.
During 1975 the thirteen Area Transportation Representatives performed thou sands of vehicle inspections for operating authority and proper vehicle registra
tion and identification, resulting in detection of 2,263 violations and collection
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of $43*950.00 in vehicle registration fees where vehicles had not been properly registered with the Commission by the carriers. They also performed 1,065 rate checks of intrastate "for hire" carriers to ensure that the certificated carriers were adhering to the rates and charges published in their tariffs lawfully on file with the Commission and, in addition, performed 2,234 other miscellaneous functions in the pursuit of the Commission's business, including personal contacts, special investigations, vehicle observations reports, etcetera.
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UTILITIES ENGINEERING DIVISION
ELECTRIC POWER
The Commission has full regulatory jurisdiction over two privately-owned electric utilities, those being Georgia Power Company and Savannah Electric and Power Company. The Commission also has partial jurisdiction over the 50 municipally-owned electric distribution systems and 42 cooperatively-owned electric membership corporations pursuant to the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act.
Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act
Following the approval of the Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act No. 94 on March 29, 1973 > the Commission proceeded to develop rules, regula tions and recommendations for mapping and other procedures involved as necessary to comply with the requirements of the Act. The Commission was charged with the responsibility to make assignments or specify areas of unassignment in all of the land area of Georgia which lies beyond city limit boundaries.
In the 101st report of the Public Service Commission for the period ending January 1, 1974, only reference was made to the rules, regulations and specifications to accomplish this job.
The Georgia Power Company was assigned the task of preparing the 159 county maps to reflect thereon the electric lines of all suppliers.
The Commission was informed by the suppliers that negotiations, which would lead to joint applications by the suppliers in each county, were progressing to the point that said applications would be filed with the Commission for its consideration in early 1975. As a result of this activity, but with no definite indications of details, the Commission did not comment on territorial matters in its 102nd report.
The Commission encouraged the suppliers to negotiate and file joint applications for assignment or unassignment of electric service areas.
Subsequent negotiations resulted in joint applications for 21 counties which Y/ere received by the Commission, reviewed and checked by the Staff for compliance with the intent of the law and the Rules and Regulations published in October 1973 by the Commission. The first public hearing was held April 23, 1975. There being no intervention or opposition, the Commission approved the 21 applications, one for each county, for assignment on May 19* 1975.
Subsequently, additional joint applications were received and processed by the Staff, resulting in three additional hearings. These were for 93 counties heard on July 9, approved July 16, 22 counties heard on August 27, , approved September 2 and 22 counties heard on November 12, approved November 18, 1975.
The joint application for assignment of areas in the one remaining county is expected to be received in March 1976.
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Georgia Territorial Electric Service Act (cont'd)

There are 50 municipally-owned electric distribution systems in Georgia. Approximately 450 cities and toY/ns are served by Georgia Power Company, 12 by Savannah Electric and 110 by the Electric Cooperatives as principal suppliers as set forth in the Act. Other suppliers having lines and serving customers within the cities are considered secondary suppliers.

The law was tested in one case Yihich was appealed to the Supreme Court, which upheld its constitutionality.

It is the opinion of this Commission that the assignments of these^areas for operation by the various power suppliers will be conducive to a minimum of duplication of facilities and the probability of minimizing some increased costs which would otherwise have developed had there not been .a territorial
law.

The following applications for territorial assignment were processed and decided by the Commission in 1975:

COUNTY
Appling Brantley Camden Candler Columbia Emanuel Franklin Glynn Laurens Long McIntosh
COUNTY
Atkinson Baker Baldwin Bacon Banks Barrow Berrien Bibb Bleckley

Territorial Assignments Approved May 19, 1975

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COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

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2677-U 2678-U
2679-U 2681-U 2682-U 2684-U 2685-U 2686-U 2687-U 2688-U

Pierce Pulaski Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Twiggs
Union Wayne Wheeler

2689-U 2690-U 2691-U 2692-U 2693-U 2694-U 2696-U 2697-U 2698-U 2699-U

Territorial Assignment s Approved July 16, 1975

DOCKET NO.

COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

2737-U 2738-U 2739-U 2740-U 2741-U 2742-U 2743-U 2783-U 2744-U

Brooks
Bryan Bulloch Butts Calhoun Carroll Catoosa Charlton Chattahoochee

2745-U 2746-U 2747-U 2743-U 2749-U 2750-U 2751-U 2680-U 2752-U

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COUNTY

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Chattooga Cherokee Clarke Clinch Clay Crawford Dade Dawson Decatur Dekalb Dodge Echols Effingham
Evans Fannin Fayette Floyd Forsyth Gilmer Glascock Greene Habersham Hancock Haralson Hart Heard Henry Houston Jasper Jeff Davis Johnson Jones Lanier Liberty Lincoln Lowndes Lumpkin Macon

2753-U 2754-U 2755-U 2756-U 2757-U 2758-U 2759-U 2760-U 2761-U 2762-U
2763-U 2764-U 2765-U 2766-U 2683-U 2767-U 2768-U 2769-U 2770-U 2771-U 2772-U 2773-U 2774-U 2775-U 2776-U 2777-U 2778-U 2779-U 2780-U 2781-U 2782-U 2784-U 2785-U 2786-U 2787-U 2788-U 2789-U 2790-U

Madison Marion Miller Montgomery Murray Muscogee
Oconee Oglethorpe
Paulding Peach Pickens Pike Polk Putnam Rockdale
Schley Seminole Stephens
Stewart Sumter Talbot Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair
Terrell Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Turner Walker Ware Warren Webster White Wilkinson

2791-U 2792-U 2793-U 2794-U 2795-U 2796-U 2797-U 2798-U 2799-U 2700-U 2801-U 2802-U 2803-U 2804-U 2805-U 2806-U 2807-U 2695-U 2808-U 2809-U 2810-U 2811-U 2812-U 2813-U 2814-U 2815-U 2816-U 2817-U 2818-U 2819-U 2820-U 2821-U 2822-U 2823-U 2824-U 2825-U 2826-U

Territorial Assignments Approved September 2, 1975

COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

Chatham Crisp Dooly Dougherty

2827-U 2828-U 2829-U 2863-U

Douglas Early
Elbert Gordon

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Territorial Assignments Approved Sept ember 2, 197$

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COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

Grady
Gwinnett Hall Irwin Jefferson Jenkins Lee

2834-U 2835-U 2836-U 2837-U 2838-U 2839-U 2856-U

McDuffie
Mitchell Morgan Thomas Whitfield Wilcox Wilkes

2857-U 2864-U 2858-U 2859-U 2860-U 2861-U 2862-U

COUNTY

Territorial Assignments Approved November 18, 1975

DOCKET NO.

COUNTY

DOCKET NO.

Bartow Ben Hill Burke Clayton Cobb Coffee Cook Coweta
Fulton Harris Jackson

2865-U 2866-U 2867-U 2868-U 2869-U
2870-U 2872-U 2873-U 2874-U 2875-U 2876-U

Lamar Meriwether Monroe Newton Screven Spalding Troup Upson Walton Washington Worth

2877-U 3878-U 2879-U 2880-U 2881-U 2882-U 2883-U 2884-U 2885-U 2886-U 2887-U

Georgia Power Company

The Georgia Pov/er Company serves a 57,000 square-mile area of the State that encompasses 153 of the State's 159 counties. At the end of 1975, the Company's customers totaled 1,083,646, an increase of .5 percent over the previous year. Its residential customers averaged using 9,817 kilowatt-hours of electricity and averaged paying 3*26 cents for each kilowatt-hour of electricity used. In 1974, residential customers used an average of 9,677 kilowatt-hours and paid an average of 2.48 cents for each kilowatt-hour.

The maximum system demand for electricity in 1975 occurred on August 23 at 400 p.m. when a peak hour demand of 8,448,600 kilowatts, .29 percent below the 1974 peak, was recorded. At the time of the demand, the Company was generating 6,790,100 kilowatts and received 193,000 kilowatts from associated companies and 1,465,500 kilowatts from non-associated companies. The rated capability of Georgia Power's generating plants was 9,823,850 kilowatts. Reserves for the summer of 1976 are projected to be adequate.

Georgia Power plans to spend approximately $4*2 billion in the period 1976-1980 to add generating capacity needed to meet Georgia's expanding need for electricity. The Company expects its wholesale customers to provide up to $1.7 billion of that amount. In 1975 the cooperative customers, represented by Oglethorpe Electric Membership Corporation (0EMC), purchased 30 percent

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undivided interests in Hatch Unit 1 and in work already completed on Unit 2, plus related transmission facilities and substations, for a total of approximately $336.5 million.
Reflecting construction cutbacks made in 1974 and early 1975 due to inability to obtain financing, construction expenditures for the year were considerably less than in 1974, $432 million compared to $663 million. The Company was able, however, to place in operation an 880,000 kilowatt coalfired facility and to continue progress on three units that will add 2,540,000 kilowatts of capacity to the system in the next three years.
Work was completed on the forth and final unit at Plant Bowen near Cartersville. With the three units already in place, this 880,000 kilowatt unit makes the plant the system's largest, with a total capacity of 3,160,000 kilowatts. Unit 4 began operation in July and was placed into commercial operation in November. Major construction was completed in 1974 on Hatch^ Unit 1 near Baxley, the Company's first nuclear plant, but it was not until^ December 31, 1975, that the unit was placed in commercial operation. Modifi cations were made to the unit in December to correct vibration problems (other utilities with the same class of reactor experienced similar problems), and operation was resumed at 80 percent of the rated 810,000 kilowatts of capacity* Georgia Power Company and the manufacturer are testing ^other modifications that would allow the plant to operate at full capacity.
Construction continued on Unit 2 at the Hatch Plant, scheduled for operation in Spring 1979. The reactor arrived and work was concentrated on its installation and erection of the generator stator. The first unit of the coal-fired Plant Wansley, located near Carrollton, was near completion, with commercial operation anticipated June 1976. Construction was resumed in September 1975 at Plant Wansley's second unit. Work had been suspended for eight months as a result of the earlier construction cutback. The unit is now planned to begin commercial operation in April 1978. Several units remained suspended during 1975: Plant Scherer Units 1-4# 835,000 kilowatts, coal-fired; WAllace Dam, 321,000 kilowatts, hydroelectric; and Alvin W. Vogtle Nuclear Plant Units 1-2, nuclear. Two additional units at the Vogtle Plant have been cancelled.
During the year, the Company also built 320 miles of transmission lines, 618 miles of distribution lines and 34 new substations.
Net income after dividends on preferred stock was $139.1 million for 1975 compared to $68.7 million in 1974. Operating revenues were 37 percent above 1974, topping $1 billion for the first time in the Company's^history. The increase was due to almost a full year of rate relief and to higher fuel costs which are recovered through the fuel adjustment. Operaoing expenses were $860.6 million, with fuel costs accounting for almost half of that amount, $359.5 million. The Company paid $64.1 million in 1975 for federal and state taxes other than income taxes, a 25 percent increase over the $37.2 million in 1974. As a result of lay-offs the Company was forced to^make early in the year, the number of persons employed decreased from 9,365 in 1974 to 9,052 in 1975.
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On November 12, 1974, the Company filed with the Commission a request for an emergency retail rate increase which would produce approximately $36 million by April 30, 1975. On December 17, 1974? the Company filed for permanent annual relief of $305 million, including the emergency requests. The Commission authorized emergency rate increases totaling $60 million, of which some $51.6 million was billed, while the Company's request for the $305 million permanent increase was being heard. On April 24, 1975, the Commission granted a perma nent increase of approximately $116 million which superseded the emergency increases.
A request designed to increase wholesale revenues by approximately $43 million was filed with the Federal Power Commission (FPC) on Octomber 31 > 1974. These rates were placed in effect, subject to refund, on April 1, 1975. 0EMC began taking service under partial requirement rates on^ July 1, 1975, because they had purchased generation and transmission facilities that would meet a portion of their electric service needs. The combination of full and partial requirement rates are to produce substantially the same rate of return to the Company as the full requirements rate filed October 31j 1974*
Savannah Electric and Power Company
Savannah Electric and Power Company serves more than 79,000 customers in a five-county area in eastern Georgia, approximately 62^miles long and 33 miles wide, including the city of Savannah and several other incorporated towns and municipalities. The area has a population estimated to be 210,000, with approximately 90$ of the Company's customers located in metropolitan Savannah.
Inadequate earnings required the Company to continue the austerity program initiated in operations in 1974- Construction remains suspended on the 175 megawatt generating plant in Effingham County. At the close of 1975, the Company employed 421 regular full time employees. This was 21 less than the previous year.
Electric power use by the Company's customers began to return to pre recession growth levels in 1975. The home use of electric power averaged 9,909 kilowatt hours of electricity, an increase of 3.5$ over the previous
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year. In 1974 residential customers used an average of 9,574 kilowatt hours. Total sales of electricity during 1975 increased 5.5$ to 1,919;849 megawatt hours.
The maximum system demand for electricity occurred in 1975 on August 19 at 5 p.m. when a peak hour demand of 409?BOO kilowatts, an increase of 8.3$ over the previous year, was recorded. The aggregate gross operating capability of Savannah Electric and Power's generating plants is 494*500 kilowatts.
On May S, 1975, the Company filed an application with the Georgia Public Service Commission to increase its rates in the annual amount of $6,675,000 based upon the test year ended December 31, 1974 By letter order dated August 28, 1975, the Commission advised the Company that on August 25, 1975, the Georgia Public Service Commission voted to approve an increase in annual revenues of approximately $3,831,000 based upon said test year and that the new rates were authorized to become effective with respective billings rendered on and after September 1, 1975. The increase amounted to 7.0$ of test year revenue. The Company filed a motion for reconsideration of the Georgia Public Service Commission's decision. On October 21, 1975, the Commission voted to uphold its rate decision of August 25, 1975. In the meantime, two consumer suits of similar nature were filed against the Company. One suit, in the form of a class action, was brought in Superior Court of Chatham County, solely against the Company. It has been dismissed for lack of jurisdiction. An appeal is pending.
Georgia's Consumer's Utility Counsel filed suit in Fulton County Superior Court against the Company and the Georgia Public Service Commission. This action contests the validity of various procedures followed by the Commission in granting the rate increase. The Company's response to the suit included a cross-claim against the Commission in which the Court is being asked to review and declare the Commission's action confiscatory in allowing the Company only $3*8 million of the requested amount. This case is pending in the Fulton County Superior Court.
The Company successfully concluded the issue and sale of $20 million principal amount of first mortgage bonds, 12-1/2$ Series due 1981, on Octo ber 15, 1975, and 1,000,000 shares of preference stock, cumulative $1.28 Series, on October 22, 1975, in separate public offerings.
Continued growth in the community resulted in a gain of 1,645 customers during 1975. There were 403 new homes built and 110 new commercial establish ments served during the year.
Industrial power expansion accounted for more than 26,000 kilowatts in new load connected in 1975. Of this amount, 8,500 kilowatts were for expansion at American Cyanamid Company, 5,300 kilowatts at the $77 million Southern Energy Company's liquified natural gas conversion plant on Elba Island in the Savannah Harbor, 5,000 kilowatts at the paper mill of Continental Can Co., and 2,500 kilowatts at Union Camp Corp.'s new chip and saw mill facility. Smaller and miscellaneous industrial expansions added another 5,000 kilowatts in electrical load in 1975.
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Calendar year 1975 completed the seventh year of the grant-in-aid certification agreement, under the provisions of the Natural Gas Pipeline Safety Act of 1968, of the Commission's Gas Safety Office with the Office of Pipeline Safety Operations of the United States Department of Transpor tation. During the year the Commission continued to regulate the safe operation of the four privately-owned natural gas distribution companies operating in the State, as well as portions of the thirty municipally-owned gas systems which have facilities outside the boundaries of the county or counties wherein the municipality is situated. This regulation consists of ascertaining the compliance of these gas systems to the provisions of Title 49; Code of Federal Regulations, Part 192, "Transportation of Natural and Other Gas by Pipeline: Minimum Federal Safety Standards." At year's end, under the fifty percent funding provision of the grant-in-aid agreement, the Commission was entitled to receive over $59,000 in reimbursement from the Federal government.
At the beginning of 1975 the Gas Safety Office was separated from the Commission's other engineering functions pertaining to the regulation, of natural gas. This served to simplify the annual fiscal reporting requirements to O.P.S.O., in that, other than the division director and his secretary, no direct personnel were devoting time to the program on a part-time basis. In this regard, an additional engineer was hired to the gas safety staff during 1975, bringing our full-time professional and technical staff to two engineers and three inspectors with a combined experience of more than nine man-years in natural gas safety regulation.
During 1975 approximately 225 separate inspections were performed at 68 cities or towns throughout the State. Approximately 162 items of noncompliance were found during these inspections and 75 of these had been corrected by year's end. The majority of the discrepancies were in the process of being cleared, as determined during the latest inspection of the system. Major items concerning the Minimum Federal Safety Standards which were covered during these inspections include the following: cathodic pro tection of steel pipelines installed after July 31, 1971; repair and recheck of hazardous leaks; monitoring of emergency valve maintenance and records; monitoring of district regulator station maintenance and records; and an overall review of record-keeping requirements per the operators' Operating and Maintenance Plans.
During 1975 only two natural gas explosions occurred which involved gas distribution facilities under Commission jurisdiction. Both of these were in . Atlanta and both were investigated by personnel from the Gas Safety Office. The first, at 2896 Springside Place, S. E., was caused by third-party damage to the service line and resulted in two injuries and extensive damage to the residence. The second, at the Glenn Apartments, 606 Humphries Street, S. W., was caused by gas accumulating from an open valve in the fuel line for the gas range and resulted in one fatality, two injuries and extensive property damage.
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gas safety personnel during the year: (1) Cathodic Protection Technology; presented in Rock Hill, S. C.,
by M. A. Riordan of Corrosion Control Technologists, Houston, Texas. (2) Gas Leak Detection; presented in Atlanta by personnel of the
Gas Survey Institute, Shrewsburg, Mass. (3) Southeast Natural Gas Distribution Short Course; presented at
the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala. (4) Southern States Regional Meeting, Pipeline Safety, held in
Atlanta. (5) Safety Evaluation of Gas Pipeline Systems, presented by Transpor
tation Safety Institute, Oklahoma City, Okla. (6) Safety Evaluation of Gas Pipeline Corrosion Control Systems,
presented by Transportation Safety Institute, Oklahoma City, Okla. Finally, the Gas Safety Office welcomed the opening in early 1975 of
the Southern Regional Office of the Federal Office of Pipeline Safety Operations, headed by Mr. James C. Thomas. They will be reponsible for O.P.S.O. technical activities in the states of Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina. The jurisdiction of this Southern Regional Office in Georgia will extend to those municipalities, and portions thereof, not subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission, interstate pipelines, and liquid petroleum operators.
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The Office of Natural Gas Utilities Engineering is staffed by two, full-time engineers and one secretary whose time is shared with another Commission department. The numerous functions of this office include, but are not limited to the following:
(1) Receipt, analyses, and recommendations on filings of proposed rules, regulations and rates, in tariff form, from the regulated gas utilities in Georgia;
(2) Enforcement of existing, Commission-approved gas utility rules, regulations and rates;
(3) Review, issuance, and enforcement of gas utility Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity;
(4) Analysis and disposition of the more complex gas customer complaints; and
(5) Preparation and submittal of formal interventions before federal regulatory agencies.
With regard to the aforementioned activity in item (5), this office issued five filings with the FPC and one with the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, Washington, D. C., as follows:
FPC Dockets RP74-6 and RP72-74
REPLY OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION TO BRIEFS ON EXCEPTIONS
"The Georgia Public Service Commission (Georgia Commission) is concerned primarily that^the impact on rates and supply of any curtailment plan adopted by the Commission in these proceedings by fully set forth so that the Georgia Commission can effectively exercise its jurisdiction over the local distribu tion of gas...."
"The Georgia Commission strongly opposes Southern Natural's request that no demand charge adjustment be made, particularly when Southern Natural curtails delivery to one buyer below its contracturai entitlement while it delivers gas to another buyer in excess of that company's ,,c f .eu:I entitlement___"
"The Georgia Commission is totally opposed to the request by the Georgia Industrial Group that a restriction be placed on the attachment of new, highpriority consumers by companies that buy gas from Southern Natural.--- "To bar new residential customers from receiving natural gas is to totally discriminate against such customers, particularly when, as the record here so amply demonstrates, the pipeline continues to sell massive volumes of gas for low-priority uses...."
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APPLICATION OF GEORGIA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
FOR HEARING AND STAY OF ORDER

"The Georgia Public Service Commission --- hereby applies for rehearing of Opinion No. 74-7---

SPECIFICATIONS OF ERROR

1. Opinion No. 74-7, by adopting Southern Natural Gas Company's proposal to specify curtailments by individual delivery points with limited grouping in the wintertime, improperly and unlawfully interferes with State juris diction over the distribution of natural gas.

2. Opinion No. 747 improperly endorses Southern's breach of contract to make gas available for low-priority uses.

3. Opinion No. 747 discriminates against gas consumers in the State of

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4. Opinion No. 747, through the adoption of an Index of Requirements approach,

unduly jeopardizes gas delivers for high-priority uses in order to furnish increased volumes of dump gas to low-priority users.

3. Opinion No. 747 erroneously classified certain feedstock, plant protection and process requirements of Columbia Nitrogen Corporation in Category 3 instead of Category 2.

"WHEREFORE, the Georgia Commission requests the Federal Commission to grant rehearing for the purpose of fully considering the foregoing specifications of error. Additionally, the Georgia Commission urges the Federal Commission to stay its Order insofar as that Order permits delivery of gas in excess of contract quantities to one customer whenever Southern is unable to deliver full contract to other customers, without prejudice to any customer being permitted to request deliveries in excess of contract limits to serve high-priority requirements."

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS

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On November 28, 197$, Atlanta Gas Light Company (Atlanta) filed in this proceeding a Petition for Order to Show Cause and Temporary Stay. In its filing Atlanta requests the Court to issue an order to show cause directed to Respondent Federal Power Commission (FPC) as to why its order issued November 20, 197$, implementing an end-use curtailment plan on the Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern) system is not in violation of this Court's decree of May 19, 197$, which stayed a contract-oriented (Order 431) curtail ment plan. The Georgia Public Service Commission (GPSC) supported Atlanta's position. In light of severe reductions in Southern's gas supply to Atlanta,
the intervention of GPSC became necessary.

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December 22, 1975
Atlanta Gas Light Company
Atlanta Gas Light Company (AGL) served 196 municipalities and 86 counties in Georgia with natural gas on December 31, 1975. Number of gas customers on that date was 701,685, an increase of 11,576 over the previous year-end figure. Of the increase, 11,023 were residential customers, 607 commercial, 55 fewer industrial due to reclassifications and one additional public authority.
During the twelve-month period ended December 31, 1975, Operating Revenues increased $28,195,890 to $263*105,075. Net income decreased $3,569,592 to $10,525,315 and earnings available for common stock amounted to $1.96 per share as compared with $2.74 for the previous corresponding period. The decline in revenues and earnings resulted principally from a winter substantially warmer than the previous winter and not favorable for the sale of heating gas, from the curtailment programs of pipeline suppliers, and from increased operating costs. Operating expenses for 1975 totalled $243,734,327 an increase of $31,318,304. Of total operating expenses, cost of gas accounted for $170,057,915 (or 70 percent), compared with $144,044,299 in 1974. Construction expenditures amounted to $23,152,496 for the year.
AGL has long-term contracts with its three natural gas pipeline suppliers for maximum daily deliveries aggregating 854,600 Mcf. These consist of firm service from Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern) of 737,500 Mcf per day, from Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco) of 107,600 Mcf per day and from South Georgia Natural Gas Company of 9,500 Mcf per day. They also have contracts with Transcontinental for underground storage service of up to 6,314,670 Mcf at any one time and delivery therefrom at a daily rate of up to 124,935 Mcf; for liquefied natural gas of an aggregate of 130,000 Mcf during each winter season at a daily rate of 26,000 Mcf; and for peaking service at 4,500 Mcf per day for an annual total of .135,000 Mcf.
To supplement existing sources of gas supply to meet peak demands, AGL is constructing an additional liquefied natural gas tank in Jones County, east of Macon. This tank will hold the equivalent of 1.5 billion cubic feet of gas in liquid form and provide greatly increased peak shaving capability for the Macon-Milledgeville area in two cryogenic tanks until required during cold weather. When needed to meet peak loads, it will be vaporized and fed back into the system. This plant adds 200,000 Mcf per day peak shaving capacity to the company's system.
AGL also maintains eight peak shaving plants which supply propane air gas to its system to supplement the gas supply in very cold weather or in emergen cies. Storage capacity of these plants is 13,456,140 gallons of liquid propane. The rated daily gas-making capacity based on a twenty hour day totals 194,340 Mcf of natural gas equivalent and the number of days that full capacity can be maintained without replacement of liquid propane varies from three to ten days, averaging six days.
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Southern (whose principal customer is the AGL) has informed AGL that Southern's current efforts to supplement its reserves from traditional sources include the making of substantial advance payments (advances outstanding as of October 31> 1975, were approximately $126,000,000) for the development of natural gas reserves in Southern's supply area. Southern is also continuing its exploration and development activities, as well as its participation in offshore lease acquisitions. Through participation in five lease sales since March 1974-, Southern and its affiliated companies have acquired $52,600,000 interest in various off-shore tracts.
Southern has also indicated that non-traditional sources being pursued by it include its FPC approved contracts to import, at Savannah, Georgia, LNG from Algeria equivalent to approximately 350,000 Mcf of natural gas per day, for a 25-year period. AGL anticipates that, beginning in 1977, a portion of its deliveries from Southern will be from this source. The specific volumes and method of sale are involved in proceedings before the FPC.
Transco, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Transco Exploration Company., has participated in 16 test wells offshore during the first 10 months of 1975. Transco has informed AGL that it plans to continue its exploration activities ^ through its subsidiary at an accelerated rate in 1976. Its immediate plans in clude the exploration of four offshore tracts and participation in the next off shore lease sale scheduled for February 1976. In addition, Transco has out standing advance payments in the amount of $166,000,000 as of November 30, 1975, for first call on gas supplies associated with tracts for which various producers have made lease bonus payments of approximately $750,000,000.
To date, 35 discoveries have been made on these tracts, and 20 platforms have been ordered for the purpose of developing and producing these reserves.
A wholly-owned subsidiary of AGL has a one-third working interest in a drilling program in Northern Alabama and since 1972 sixteen wells have been drilled, with natural gas discovered in seven of thm. this drilling program is continuing; however, the Dropr' not to date had any effect on their overall gas supply oouaxion. AGL also is engaged in a search for suitable underground gas storage structures.
Gas Light Company of Columbus
Gas Light Company of Columbus serves the City of Columbus, Georgia, and the military installation at Fort Benning, Georgia. They operate on a fiscal year period ending on August 31. At the end of the most recent fiscal year, August 31, 1975* this company was serving a total of 46,352 customers of which 42,981 were classified residential, 3>292 commercial, and 79 industrial.
Operating revenues for the period amounted to $12,596,661, an increase of $3>393>000 over the previous fiscal year. Of this increase, $1,027,000 resulted from higher wholesale gas rates charged by Southern Natural Gas Company and passed on to the company's customers under the Purchased Gas Adjustment (PGA) provision applicable to all their rate schedules; $1,725,000 resulted from rate adjustments allowed by the Georgia Public Service Commission as a result of the rate hearing in Docket No. 2629-U; and the remaining $641 >000 was due to the higher volume of residential and commercial sales during the period.
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Gas Light Company of Columbus (cont1d )
Operating expenses for the period amounted to $11,288,881, up $2,531*504 over the previous fiscal year. Cost of natural gas purchased was $7,061,479, or 63 percent of total operating expenses. Payroll and employee benefit costs of $1,958,734 accounted for an additional 17 percent of operating expenses.
Net income after payment of preferred stock dividends amounted to $553*561. During the previous fiscal year, which included the warmest heating season recorded by the weather bureau, earnings amounted to only $77,431-
Because of the critical decline in earnings during the fiscal year ended August 31* 1974* and the substantial increase in expenses connected with the new $5*000,000 liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities, Gas Light Company of Columbus (Columbus) petitioned the Commission on June 17, 1974* for approval of additional annual revenues in the amount of $2,007,454- On July 26, 1974* they filed a further Petition requesting an emergency increase in rates effec tive September 1, 1974* to provide additional revenues of $3^1,990 during the four month period commencing that date. After a public hearing on August 28, 1974* the Commission granted the emergency request and on October 15, 1974* rendered a decision in the original case, allowing additional annual revenues of $1,800,000, including the emregency amount previously allowed.
Southern Natural Gas Company (Southern Natural) is the wholesale pipeline supplier of natural gas to Columbus. Under the provisions of a longterm contract, Southern Natural is obligated to deliver a daily maximum of 60,000 MCF (thousand cubic feet) to Columbus.
Southern Natural, like most other pipeline suppliers, has been ordered by the Federal Power Commission to curtail gas supplies to its customers according to a seven-category end use priority plan, when it is unable to furnish the full requirements on its system. None of the Company's customers are in the two lowest priority categories of Southern's curtailment plan which apply to interruptible industrial customers using over 3*000 MCF per day. Based on the present situation, Columbus management does not believe the existing cutailment plan will have any significant effect on its pipeline supply for the fiscal year ending August 31* 1976.
Columbus has liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities which are used to supplement the supply of natural gas on days of peak requirements during the heating season. The LPG facility has the capabilrity of producing approximately 14*000 MCF per day, and the recently-acquired LNG facility has the capability of supplying up to 30,000 MCF per day.
The supply of gas available from Southern Natural and peak shaving facil ities appears to be adequate to meet the requirements of the Company's high priority customers for the foreseeable future.
In connection with the permanent financing of the LNG facilities, completed in August, 1974, Columbus sold $4,750,000 principal amount of first mortgage bonds on November 1, 1974* to the Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company. These bonds, bearing interest at the annual rate of 8-3/4 percent, are to be redeemed over a 20 year period ending November 1, 1994-
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United Cities Gas Company
United Cities Gas Company (United) is a natural gas distribution company operating in six states and purchases its natural gas supply from six inter state pipelines and several small producers. In Georgia United Cities serves the cities of Gainesville and Oakwood and environs of Hall County. At the end of 1975* they served 7,137 customers in Georgia, as compared to 7,100 at the end of 1974. Total revenues were $2,156,254* as compared to $1,977,340 the prior year. Of the 7,137 customers, 5,884 are residential, 864 are commercial, 40 are industrial, and 501 are public authority.
United purchases 100$ of its natural gas supply in Georgia from Trans continental Gas Pipe Line Corporation (Transco). This gas supply consists of an 8,100 Mcf firm contract and 4*751 Mcf winter or storage service contract. Transco has curtailed their customers on a seasonal basis for the past three years under authority granted by the Federal Power Commission. As a result of this curtailment, United in 1975 was unable to meet all of their interrupt ible customers' annual requirements. At the present curtailment level, this situation will exist in 1976. The Company anticipates no problem in meeting all of their firm customers requirements during the coming year, either on a peak-day or annual basis.
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On April 14, 1975, United filed an emergency relief petition with the Georgia Public Service Commission requesting an approximate $165,000 increase in rates to offset a similar loss in revenue resulting from Transco's curtail ment of contract gas supplies. Prior to the issuance of an Order from the Commission, United entered into a one-year contract with another distribution company to supply additional natural gas to the Company's interruptible cus tomers. As a result of this agreement, United requested that their rate increase be withdrawn. On October 7, the Georgia Public Service Commission allowed this withdrawal.
Chattanooga Gas Company
During 1975 Chattanooga Gas Company served Chattanooga, Tennessee and its environs, including portions of Hamilton County, Tennessee and adjacent commun ities of Fort Oglethorpe and Rossville, Georgia. Through its Cleveland Division, Chattanooga Gas also served Cleveland, Tennessee located in Bradley County, Tennessee, approximately 30 miles northeast of Chattanooga. On December 31, 1975* the number of customers served was 455, the same as last year.
Chattanooga's 1975 sales volume was, for the second consecutive year, lower than the previous year. A nine percent gain in sales to residential and commer cial consumers because of a colder than normal heating season was offset by increased curtailment of gas service to interruptible consumers. Industrial firm sales reflected a slight gain over 1974, but the effects of continued industrial recession were felt throughout 1975.
Chattanooga Gas receives its basic supply of natural gas from two natural gas pipeline companies under contracts expiring in 1986 and 1988, providing for a current daily contract demand of 101,565 MCF. Each of Chattanooga's suppliers have in effect provisions for reducing actual deliveries to customers below the amounts of their currently effective daily contract demand.
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Chattanooga Gas Company (cont'd)
East Tennessee Natural Gas Company placed in effect on December 1, 1974-, a plan for allocating gas quantitites available from its supplier, Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, which had the effect of limiting Chattanooga's annual pur chases from East Tennessee to the amount of 15,934-,809 MCF (base period volumes which represent Chattanooga's actual purchases from East Tennessee for the twelve months ended December, 1973).
Chattanooga's other pipeline supplier, Southern Natural Gas Company, was directed by the Federal Power Commission to place in effect a curtailment plan based on the Commission's end-use concept on November 27, 1975. This plan replaced the curtailment plan under which the Southern system had operated since January of 1972. Chattanooga Gas had not experienced any reduction below contract quantities from Southern prior to November 27. Under the plan in effect after November 27, Chattanooga expects to receive from Southern Natural 15.189.000 MCF for the calendar year 1976.
Chattanooga Gas' liquefied natural gas plant, construction of which com menced in April, 1971, was completed in 1972 and placed in use during the 1973-74 heating season. The plant is designed with a refrigeration capacity to liquefy 10,000 MCF of natural gas per day. It has a storage capacity of 1.200.000 MCF in liquid form (34-8,000 barrels) and vaporization capacity send-out of 90,000 MCFD (1MCF of LNG is equivalent of 600 MCF vaporized). The plant has an annual capacity of over 2,000,000 MCF liquid fully utilizing the combination of storage and production. The plant operated at only 70% efficiency to May 1975, because of certain construction problems, which have been remedied by the general contractor. Subsequent to May, 1975, the plant has operated at, or above, design performance levels. In addition to providing the peak shaving requirements of Chattanooga Gas, the plant has refrigeration and loading facilities to provide for sale of liquid gas to other utilities and industrial customers. The total cost of this facility was approximately $8,500,000 which was financed by long-term loans.
In addition to the LNG plant, for peak shaving purposes, production facilities consist of two propane-air gas plants (one portable). Propane storage facilities consist of a 725 ton refrigerated propane storage tank,
and 13 conventional propane tanks, together providing capacity of four days
of maximum peak shaving operation without refill. Chattanooga Gas also has a natural gas storage holder with a capacity of 1,000 MCF.

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RADIO UTILITIES
At the end of the calendar year 1975, there were 27 radio utility systems operating in Georgia within 34 separate certificated service areas, providing service to some 1800 two-way mobile radio telephone units and some 7800 one-way paging units, under 35 certificates of public convenience and necessity issued by the Georgia Public Service Commission. Seven of these utilities have only recently received operating authority and have not established initial opera tional capability as of year end. A marked increase in service to the public should be reflected by year end 1976, however. The number of units in service data represents a modest decrease of some 250 two-way mobile radio units or a 12$ decline. This decrease may be due to the change in method of reporting units in service from the previous period rather than a loss in business indi cation. An increase of some 1600 one-way paging units in service reflects a 20$ growth over the corresponding reporting period for 1974 A more accurate appraisal of 1975 radio utility performance can be made following receipt of formal annual reports from these utilities.
The addition of new equipment and facilities by many of the radio utility systems in Georgia during 1975 was evidence of the desire to provide better service to the using public. Typical improvements were made in the following , dategories:
1. New Transmitter installations 2. New Antenna Tower installations 3. Additional Radio Frequencies 4. Additional Mobile Radio Telephone Set Purchases 5. Additional Pager Unit Purchases 6. Provision of 24 hour, 7 day service 7. Conversion to Automatic Dial Paging 8. A variety of optional and new service offerings in
types of equipment and services rendered.
Formal Commission authority granted to radio utility systems during 1975 included three certificates of public convenience and necessity to initiate new service areas, amendment of two certificates to enlarge operating service areas, one Commission order for authority to acquire 100$ of stock of co-owner? one Rule Nisi order was issued against a radio utility.
Seven informal or non-docketed cases were processed granting Commission authority to radio utilities for tariff revisions which included new service offerings, graduated lower bulk rates for multiple users of paging units and general tariff revisions to conform to upgraded operating conditions.
Formal written responses were made to inquiries from the utilities, the legal profession, and the general public on matters dealing with Commission regulatory jurisdiction, certificates, service areas, applications, rules and laws, tariffs and interconnection with land line telephone companies. Over three hundred recorded telephone inquiries were coordinated dealing with Commission jurisdictional matters advising courses of action to accomplish the desired objectives in each case.
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Radio Utilities (cont'd)

A major milestone was accomplished in radio utilities engineering during the summer of 1975 by completion of the initial operational capability of the radio utility service test mobile van. The van was outfitted with the special electronic service test gear for use in the quantitative assessment of the quality of radio service rendered by the utilities. Optimization of the opera tional configuration of the electronic test gear will be established following the conduct of a series of test measurements.

Radio Utilities Engineering List of Regulated Utilities for 1975

CERTIFICATE

NUMBER

NAMES

1

General Communications Service, Inc.

5

James G. Prestwood, Jr.

6

Baxley Radio-Telephone, Inc.

8

Commerce Two Way Mobile Radio

12

Radiofone of Georgia, Inc. - Valdosta

16

Answering Network of Georgia, Inc.

17

Comm. Electronics Center, Inc.

20

Milledgeville Mobilefone, Inc.

21

Commercial Radio, Inc.

22

Raco, Inc.

23

Phenix Comm, of Georgia, Inc.

26

Radio Dalton, Inc. (two-way certificate)

27

Airsignal International, Inc.

28

Douglas Radio

29

Radiofone of Georgia, Inc. -Albany

30

Autophone of Gainesville, Inc.

31

Autophone of Gainesville, Inc.

32

Autophone of Gainesville, Inc.

33

Radio Dalton, Inc. (one-way certificate)

34

American Comm. Systems, Inc.

35

Airvoice, Inc.

36

Autofone, Inc. - Dublin

37

South Georgia Communications, Inc.

38

South Georgia Communications, Inc.

39

Car-Tel Communications, Inc.

40

Advanced Telcom

41

Mobile Tel & Pager, Inc.

42

Radio Telephone Service, Inc.

43

Radio Telephone, Inc.

44

Radiocall, Inc.

45

Radiofone of Georgia, Inc.

46

Porta-phone, Inc.

47

Autophone of Vidalia

48

Autofone, Inc.

49

Autofone, Inc.

MAJOR CITIES SERVED Atlanta Augusta Baxley Commerce Valdosta Savannah
Colquitt, Bainbridge Milledgeville Wayeross Rome Columbus Dalton Atlanta Douglas Albany Gainesville Athens Cumming Dalton Atlanta Americus Dublin Brunswick Jesup Newnan So. Warner Rob. Griffin Savannah Atlanta
Macon, Warner Robins #* Doerun Thomasville Vidalia Statesboro *# Swainsboro

27 Radio Utilities 34 Certificated Service Areas 35 Certificates of Public
Convenience & Necessity

Systems under construction

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TELEPHONE UTILITIES
All 42 telephone companies in Georgia are subject to the regulatory jurisdiction of the Georgia Public Service Commission. The Commission now has three full-time engineers assigned to telephone utilities in the regula tion of quality of service, tariff filings, depreciation studies, certificate and map revisions, and consumer complaints.

In spite of a heavier workload, caused primarily by increased company filings for increased rates and various other authorities and a higher level of subscriber complaints, two special projects were undertaken in the past year, as follows:

1. Early in 1975 a comprehensive set of Communications Service Rules for telephone companies operating in Georgia was proposed to the Commission for possible adoption. The purpose of these Standards and Rules was to establish reasonable service standards to the end that adequate and satisfactory services are rendered to the public.

After due notice and public hearing held on May 14, 1975, and consideration of comments and suggested modifications made by the various companies and other interested parties the Commission adopted the proposed Service Rules effective January 1, 1976. To the extent permitted by manpower availability and budget a continuing inspection and test program will be implemented to insure compliance with the Rules and promote improved services where needed.

2. As a result of previous research into the Commission's telephone exchange and toll line certificate file a significant percentage of some 400 certificates and accompanying service area maps were found to be deficient in one way or another. The deficiencies usually consisted of failure to transfer or amend the affected certificates as required due to corporate mergers by oversight or lack of adequate manpower in previous years.

Special administrative efforts were made to correct the deficiencies and issue new or amended certificates where indicated in order to provide the various affected companies with proper and legal certification for the exchange territories served. Due to these efforts fifty-eight new or amended exchange and toll line certifi cates and service area maps were prepared and issued. The completion of this project should greatly simplify future regula tory activities which may be required in this area.

Applications formally heard by the Commission are generally taken under advisement and decisions thereon are issued at a later date. The Commission issued 91 decisions and orders during the year : in proceedings involving telephone and telegraph utilities. A classification of the proceedings involving the Engineering Division in which formal opinions and orders were issued follows:

Applications for Certificates or Cancellation Thereof .

32

Telephone Utilities (cont'd)

Rate Adjustment Proceedings...................................... 13

Applications for Authority to Purchase and Transfer Utility

Properties .................................................. 1

Applications forAmendments of Certificates.... ........

33

General Orders ........................................

1

APPLICATION FOR CERTIFICATES OR CANCELLATION THEREOF

Docket No. 2637-U December 4, 1975 Certificate Nos. 715 thru 74-3 issued

Application of Georgia State Telephone Company for authority for Georgia State Telephone Company to merge with Alabama Telephone Company and Florida State Tele phone Company and to effect a recapitali zation in connection with such a merger.

Docket No. 2670-U June 17, 1975 Certificate No. 712

Application of Brantley Telephone Company Inc., Nahunta, Georgia, for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to estab lish a new exchange in the Waynesville Com munity of Brantley County, Georgia.

Docket No. 2902-U October 21, 1975 Certificate No. 714-

Application of Ellijay Telephone Company for Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity for toll line between the Cartecay and Ellijay Exchanges, Gilmer County.

Docket No. 2652-U April 1, 1975 Certificate No. 713

Application of Bulloch County Rural Tele phone Co-op for a certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to establish a new exchange in the Stilson Community.

RATE ADJUSTMENT PROCEEDINGS

Docket No. 2654-U March 4, 1975

Application of Commerce Telephone Company for authority to adjust its rates for local exchange telephone service.

Docket No. 2664-U February 4, 1975

Application of Hawkinsville Telephone Com pany for authority to make certain General Exchange Tariff revisions.

Docket No. 2650-U March 19, 1975

Application for an adjustment in the sched ules of rates and charges for the intrastate service furnished by General Telephone Com pany of the Southeast.

Docket No. 2660-U March 19, 1975

Application of Ringgold Telephone Company for authority to make certain general ex change tariff revisions.

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Telephone Utilities (cont*d ) Docket No. 2849-U August 25, 1975
Docket No. 2891-U October 7, 1975
Docket No. 2734-U September 16, 1975
Docket No. 2734-U September 2, 1975
Docket No. 2659-U March 19, 1975
Docket No. 2885-U August 5, 1975
Docket No. 2852-U September 2, 1975
Docket No. 2889-U October 7, 1975
Docket No. 2671-U July 1, 1975

Application of Interstate Telephone Company for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges.
Application of South Georgia Telephone Company for authority to make certain General Exchange Tariff Revisions.
Application of Continental Telephone Com pany of the South, formerly Georgia State Telephone Company, for authority to adjust local-exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Continental Telephone Com pany of the South, formerly Georgia State Telephone Company, for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Ringgold Telephone Company for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges.
Application of Western Union Telephone Com pany to make an adjustment in the basic Full Rate Telegram, overnight Telegraph and Money Order service rates.
Application of Interstate Telephone Company for authority to make certain General Exchange Tariff Revisions.
Application of South Georgia Telephone Company, Inc. for authority to adjust local exchange rate for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Brantley Telephone Company, Inc. for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.

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Telephone Utilities (cont1d )

APPLICATIONS FOR AMENDMENTS OF CERTIFICATES

Docket No. 2192-U August 25, 1975 Amendment to 29 each exchange certificates

Application of General Telephone Company of the Southeast, General Telephone Company of Georgia and Mutual Telephone Company, Inc. to merge, with General Telephone Company of the Southeast to be the surviving corporation, following such merger, for the exchange of outstanding in debtedness under a Sixteenth Supplemental In denture of General Telephone Company of the Southeast. Also, authority to transfer the Certificates of Public Convenience and Neces sity of General Telephone Company of Georgia and Mutual Telephone Company, Inc. to General Telephone Company of the Southeast following said merger, and for other purposes.

Docket No. 284-1-U June 4-, 1975 Certificate No. 593 Amendment No. 2

Application of Darien Telephone Company, Inc. for Amendment to its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity, Toll lines.

Docket No. 2670-U June 17, 1975 Certificate No. 680 Amendment No. 1
Docket No. 2670-U June 17, 1975 Certificate No. 386 Amendment No. 2
Docket No. 2896-U October 7, 1975 Certificate No. 395 Amendment No. 2

Application of Brantley Telephone Company, Inc. Nahunta, Georgia, for an amendment to its Cert ificate of Public Convenience and Necessity granted on July 15, 1965, for revision of exchange boundary.
Application of Brantley Telephone Company, Inc., Nahunta, Georgia, for an amendment to its Certi ficate of Public Convenience and Necessity granted March 26, 1951, for revision of ex change boundary.
Application of Coastal Utilities, Inc. for an amendment to its Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity.

GENERAL ORDERS

Docket No. 2636-U September 2, 1975

Adoption of a comprehensive set of Telephone Service Rules by the Commission.

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Telephone Utilities (cont1d )

CORRESPONDENCE AND CONSUMER COMPLAINTS

The Telephone Engineering Section, augmented by the addition of a third engineer in August, continued to handle an increasing load of correspondence and consumer complaints of varying complexity.

Excluding routine inquiries and the usual numerous tariff filings, the section investigated and responded to some 730 formal complaints and over 200 telephone complaints which required investigation.

TELEPHONE SERVICE OBSERVING LICENSING ACTIVITY 1975

Applications Received

17

Licensing Denied

6

Licenses Cancelled

3

Licenses Issued (As Listed) 13

COMPANY

LICENSE NO.

Government Employees Insurance Co.

154

Carroll Crisis Intervention Center, Inc.

155

Capitol Credit Corporation

156

The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company

157

W. T. Grant Company

158

Southern Media Services, Inc.

159

Georgia Highway Express, Inc.

160

Accounting Systems Company, Inc.

161

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority

162

Darden Research Corporation

163

A. J. Wood Research Corp.

164

Superior Trucking Co., Inc.

165

Builders Transport, Inc.

166

ISSUE DATE
Feb. 4, 1975 Feb. 18, 1975 April 1, 1975 May 20, 1975 May 20, 1975 June 17, 1975 June 17, 1975 Sept. 16, 1975 Oct. 7, 1975 Oct* 7, 1975 Oct. 31, 1975 Oct. 31, 1975 Dec. 16, 1975

SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Total telephones in service for Southern Bell in Georgia at the end of 1975 were 2,844,394. This represents an increase for the year of 87,880. The inward movement was 851,172 - down 65,064 from the previous year - and outward telephone movement was 758,995 - down 20,800 from the previous year. As of the end of the year 93.7% of residential customers had individual line service.

Of those Georgia families living in the areas served by Southern Bell, the percent with telephone service remains at about 93$. Second lines in residences remain at about 2.2$ of residences with telephone service.

All Southern Bell customers have access to the direct distance dialing network. The percent customer-dialed, long distance messages in 1975 was 81.9$, an increase of 5.3$ over 1974. The percent WATS, customer-dialed messages was 98.5$, an increase of .4$ over the previous year.

During 1975, Southern Bell spent approximately $269 million in Georgia for new construction.

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Southern Bell (cont1d )
At the end of 1975, only 12,754- of Bell's customers had 4-party service. This was a reduction of 9,695 for the year. Most of these customers are located in the rural area. As reported last year, Bell has no 8-party service.
During 1975, Extended Community Calling service was offered between Forsyth and Macon and between Valdosta and Hahira. There were no major changes in Southern Bell exchange calling areas under the non-optional plan. During 1975, there were 367 tariff filings involving new or changed service offerings.
Southern Bell employed 17,780 people in Georgia at the end of 1975, which is a decrease of 1,643 from the end of 1974. Southern Bell paid its Georgia employees $224,353,895 in 1975. During the past year, Southern Bell in Georgia paid in local and State taxes an amount in excess of $43,325,000, an increase of $13,081,000 or 43-3$ over 1974. In addition, Georgia telephone customers paid, on their telephone service, over $8,323,000 in state sales taxes and over $1,216,000 in sales taxes for MARTA.
GENERAL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF THE SOUTHEAST
Total telephone in service for General Telephone Company in Georgia at the end of 1975 was 196,187. This represents an increase of total telephones for the year of 3,429. The inward movement was 44,827, and the outward telephone movement was 41,400.
As of the end of the year, the total one-party stations was 82,378 and represents 65.9$ of the total main stations. The customer's desire for a better grade of service is clearly shown by the growth in the number of oneparty customers. The number of one-party customers has increased over 244$ since January, 1969, which is far in excess of the average growth rate. As of May, 1975, one hundred percent of the customers served by General Telephone Company in Georgia have access to the Direct Distance Dialing network.
During the year 1975, General Telephone Company spent in excess of $14 million on construction of telephone facilities in Georgia in the continuing provision of good service for its customers. By the end of 1974, the goal of eliminating eight-party service in all its Georgia exchanges was 99$ complete, and by the end of May, 1975, eight-party service had been eliminated in all 67 of the company's Georgia exchanges.
General Telephone employs 1,118 people in Georgia. This number is a decrease over previous years, dur to both increased efficiencies and adjustments related to the 1974-1975 economic downturn.
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UT I L I T I E S F I N A N C I A L

ANALYSIS

DIVISION

INTRODUCTION

The function of the Utilities Financial Analysis Division is to provide the Commission with professional and technical service in order that responsibilities to the public as required by law can be met. A competent technical professional, and administrative staff performs specific functions in the rate, auditing and accounting departments, in order to carry out the duties assigned to it by the Commission.

ACCOUNTING AND FINANCE DIVISION

The Audit and Financial Staff has the responsibility of receiving, docketing, and examining all rate and security application. Numerous exhibits and large volumes of testimony must be analyzed as well as cross-examining witnesses for the purpose of bringing out the facts in each case, thus enabling the Commission to reach a fair and equitable decision. This Section must also audit all monthly, quarterly and annual reports filed by the utility companies. The work load or number of rate and security applications has continued at last year's record-setting pace and the size of the staff had to be increased since the inflationary spiral of our economy continues.

ACTIVITIES

The Commission issued a total of 85 Orders after formal proceedings during the year 1975 involving utility companies. The Orders entailed certifl cates, rate adjustments and the issuance of securities relating to capital subject to the jurisdiction of this Commission.

At the close of the calendar year, 1975, there were under the juris diction of this Commission the following number of public utilities:

Electric

2

Natural Gas

4

Telephone*

43

Radio Common Carriers 26

Telegraph

1

*Includes 4 Cooperatives

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APPLICATIONS FOR AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SECURITIES OR BORROW MONEY

Non-Docket October 21, 1975

Application of The Altamaha Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $424,000 to be executed''in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Ad ministration and of $107,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corpora tion with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.

Non-Docket July 16, 1975

Application of Amicalola Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $850,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $364,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utili,ties r'' Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.

Non-Docket June 17,1975

Application of Blue Ridge Mountain Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,508,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $378,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.

Docket No. 2670-U June 17, 1975

Application of Brantley Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to borrow an addi tional $1,962,000.00 from the Rural Elec trification Administration, an agency of the United States Government, bearing interest at the rate of 5% per annum for a period of 35 years.

Docket No. 2732-U April 22, 1975

Application of Byron Telephone Company for authority to borrow $1,450,000.00 from The Federal Financing Bank.

Non-Docket February 18, 1975

Application of Carroll Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,076,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $461,000 to be executed

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Non-Docket December 16, 1975
Non-Docket September 16, 1975
Docket No. 2844-U June 17, 1975 Docket No. 2844-U August 5, 1975 First Amendatory Order Non-Docket October 7, 1975
Non-Docket October 31, 1975

in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Canoochee Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $560,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Ad ministration and of $239,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of The Central Georgia Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $796,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $341,000.00 to be ^ executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Coastal Utilities, Inc., for authority to borrow $3,159,450.00 from the Rural Telephone Bank.
Application of Coastal Utilities, Inc., for authority to borrow $3,159,450.00 from the Rural Telephone Bank.
Application of Cobb County Rural Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $3,048,000.00 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $762,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Colquitt County Rural Elec tric Company for approval of Notes of $960,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $410,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Non-Docket November 18, 1975 First Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2898-U September 16, 1975 Non-Docket May 6, 1975
Non-Docket April 22, 1975
Docket No. 2903-U October 21, 1975 Corrected Order Non-Docket August 5, 1975

Application of Colquitt County Rural Elec tric Company for approval of Notes of $960,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $410,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Commerce Telephone Company for authority to borrow $2,310,000 from the Rural Telephone Bank.
Application of Coweta-Fayette Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $974,000.00 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $417,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural"'" Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage
Application of Douglas County Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $838,000.00 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $360,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage
Application of Empire Telephone Company for authority to borrow $5,200,000.00 from the Federal Financing Bank.
Application of Flint Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $658,000.00 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $282,000.00 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Docket No. 2661-U January 21, 1975
Docket No. 2846-U June 17, 1975
Docket No . 2846-U July 16, 1975 First Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2846-U September 24, 1975 Second Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2731-U April 22, 1975 Docket No. 2637-U April 1, 1975 First Supplemental Order

Application of General Telephone Company of the Southeast for Authority to Sell Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000) of First Mortgage Bonds at Competitive Bidding and to Apply Proceeds thereof to Repay Short-Term Loans and for Other Purposes.
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to issue and sell $300,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds and 750,000 shares of Preferred Stock and up to $75,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds to secure Revenue Bonds of the Development Authority of Appling County, Georgia, to be issued in order to finance air and water pol lution control facilities.
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to issue and sell $300,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bondsand 750,000 shares of Preferred Stock and up to $75,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds to secure Revenue Bonds of the Development Authority of Appling County, Georgia, to be issued in order to finance air and water pollution control facilities.
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to issue and sell $300,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds and 750,000 shares of Preferred Stock and up to $75,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds to secure Revenue Bonds of the Development Authority of Appling County, Georgia, to be issued in order to finance air and water pollution control facilities.
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to- issue $16,410,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds for sink ing fund purposes.
Application of Georgia State Telephone Company for authority for Georgia State Telephone Company to merge with Alabama Telephone Company and Florida State Tele phone Company and to effect a recapitali zation in connection with such merger.
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Docket No. 2667-U March 19, 1975 First Amendatory Order
Non-Docket February 18, 1975
Non-Docket March 4, 1975
Non-Docket August 25, 1975

Application of Georgia State Telephone Company for authority to issue $10,000,000 of 10-3/4% First Mortgage Bonds, due January 31, 1995, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and 50,000 shares of Common Voting Stock to Continental Tele phone Corporation at a price of $100 per share.
Application of Georgia State Telephone Company for authority to issue $10,000,000 of 10-3/4% First Mortgage Bonds, due January 31, 1995, to Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and 50,000 shares of Common Voting Stock to Continental Tele phone Corporation at a price of $100 per share.
Application of Habersham Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $524,000 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $224,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Co operative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Hart County Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $540,000 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $232,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Haywood Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $779,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $195,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Docket No. 2850-U September 16, 1975 Non-Docket June 17, 1975
Non-Docket December 16, 1975
Non-Docket September 16, 1975
Non-Docket September 2, 1975
Non-Docket July 1, 1975

Application of Interstate Telephone Company for authority to borrow $3,000,000 from Stromberg-Carlson Corporation.
Jackson Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,300,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $557,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Jefferson Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $842,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $211,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Lamar Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $540,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $135,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a Common Mortgage.
Application of The Little Ocmulgee Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $340,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $146,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common mortgage.
Application of Middle Georgia Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $546,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $234,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities
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Non-Docket July 1, 1975
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Application of Mitchell Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,434,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Ad ministration and of $614,000 to be exe cuted in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Ocmulgee Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $378,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $162,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopra-^ tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Oconee Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $750,000 to be executed in the favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $322,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,244,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $311,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Docket No. 2904-U November 18, 1975
Non-Docket March 19, 1975
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Docket No. 2854-U July 1, 1975
Docket No. 2854-U September 2, 1975 First Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2666-U January 21, 1975
Docket No. 2651-U January 7, 1975 First Supplemental Order Non-Docket October 21, 1975

Application of Pembroke Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to borrow $760,000 from Rural Electrification Administration at an interest rate of 5% per annum for a period not to exceed thirty-five (35) years.
Application of Pineland Telephone Co operative , Inc., for authority to borrow $4,419,450 from the Rural Telephone Bank at the rate of 7.5% per annum for a period of thirty-five (35) years.

Application of Quincy Telephone Company for authority to borrow $4,137,000 from the Federal Financing Bank.

Application of Ringgold Telephone Company to borrow $2,606,100 from the Rural Telephone Bank, an agency of the United States, acting through the Rural Electri fication Administration, bearing interest at the rate of 7-1/2% per annum for a period of 35 years.

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Application of Savannah Electric and Power Company for authority to issue 64,860 shares of $5 par value Common Stock (3% Common Stock Dividend).

Application of Savannah Electric and Power Company for authority to issue $10,000,000 principal amount of First Mortgage Bonds.

Application of Sawnee Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $814,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $349,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate

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Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Slash Pine Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $180,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $78,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Snapping Shoals Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,586,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $680,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of South Georgia Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to borrow $2,442,300 from the Rural Telephone Bank bearing interest at the rate of 8% per annum for a period of thirty-five years.
Application of Sumter Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $1,168,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $500,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Three Notch Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $400,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $170,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Non-Docket October, 1975
Non-Docket April 22, 1975
Non-Docket January 7, 1975
Non-Docket October 7, 1975
Non-Docket April 1, 1975

Application of Tri-County Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $896,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $386,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Tri-State Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $724,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $310,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Troup County Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $746,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $320,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Troup County Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $582,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Admini stration and of $249,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Walton Electric Membership Corporation for approval of Notes of $2,660,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $1,140,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
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Non-Docket March 19, 1975
Non-Docket December 16, 1975

Application of Washington Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $326,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $139,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.
Application of Canoochee Electric Member ship Corporation for approval of Notes of $560,000 to be executed in favor of the United States of America, acting through the Rural Electrification Administration and of $239,000 to be executed in favor of the National Rural Utilities Coopera tive Finance Corporation with a separate Note to each of said lenders to be secured by a common Mortgage.

Docket No. 2671-U July 1, 1975
Docket No. 2654-U March 4, 1975
Docket No. 2734-U September 2, 1975
Docket No. 2650-U March 19, 1975
Docket No. 2527-U March 4, 1975 Docket No. 2663-U April 24, 1975

RATE ADJUSTMENT PROCEEDINGS
Application of Brantley Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to adjust local ex change rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Commerce Telephone Company for authority to adjust its rates for local exchange telephone service as well as its service connection charges.
Application of Continental Telephone Company of the South, formerly Georgia State Telephone Company, for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all ex changes of the Company.
Application for an adjustment in the schedules of rates and charges for the intrastate service furnished by General Telephone Company of the Southeast in Georgia.
Pelham, Georgia, Complaint, Schedule "LT" of Georgia Power Company
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to increase its rates for retail electric service approximately $305 million.
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Docket No. 2527-U June 17, 1975 Order on Rehearing Docket No. 2527-U December 4, 1975 First Supplemental Order Non-Docket April 22, 1975
Docket No. 2912-U December 16, 1975
Docket No. 2849-U August 25, 1975
Docket No. 2619-U March 4, 1975 First Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2905-U November 18, 1975
Docket No. 2659-U March 19, 1975
Docket No. 2848-U August 25, 1975
Docket No . 2848-U October 21, 1975 First Supplemental Order Docket No. 2848-U November 18, 1975 Second Supplemental Order Docket No. 2889-U October 7, 1975

Pelham, Georgia, Complaint, Schedule "LT" of Georgia Power Company.
Pelham, Georgia, Complaint, Schedule HLT'5 of Georgia Power Company.
Georgia Power Company - Order to keep confidential all contracts between the company and various suppliers of fuel in regard to staff audit of fuel supply department of the Company.
Application of Hart County Telephone Company for authority to adjust local exchange rates.
Application of Interstate Telephone Company for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Petition for reconsideration of the appli cation of Plant Telephone and Power Company Inc., for authority to increase exchange telephone rates of that Company.
Application of Pineland Telephone Co operative , Inc., for authority to increase local service rates in the Adrian, Bartow, Cobbtown, Kite, Davisboro, Lexsy, Oak Park and Twin City exchanges.
Application of Ringgold Telephone Company for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Savannah Electric and Power Company for authority to increase rates for electric service by $6,675,000.
Request for Reconsideration of Application of Savannah Electric and Power Company for authority to increase rates.
Application of Savannah Electric and Power Company for authority to increase rates for electric service by $6,675,000.
Application of South Georgia Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
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Docket No. 2842-U October 7, 1975
Docket No. 2885-U August 5, 1975
Docket No. 2734-U September 16, 1975 First Supplemental Order
Docket No. 2663-U First Supplemental Order April 24, 1975

Application of South Georgia Telephone Company, Inc., for authority to adjust local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of United Cities Gas Company for authority to increase rates.
Application of Western Union Telegraph Company to make an adjustment in the basic Full Rate Telegram, Overnight Telegram and Money Order service rates.
Application of Continental Telephone Company of the South, formerly Georgia State Tlphon Company, for authority to ad just local exchange rates for all exchanges of the Company.
Application of Georgia Power Company for authority to increase its rates for re tail service approximately $305 million.

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