820C8CFC49B4AE13872583770066F228 Hearing Summary

Doug Dean, Director, Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC), introduced several of the managers on his team. He provided copies of his presentation to the committee (Attachment B). He began with a general overview of the PUC. He spoke about the history, staff, and structure of the organization. He listed the PUC's performance plan goals and spoke about major projects with which they are involved.

Mr. Dean explained the processes of "booting" and "barnacling" as they relate to nonconsensual towing and encouraged the legislature to look at these issues. The discussion turned to rail, transit, and gas pipeline safety. Mr. Dean talked about the PUC's value to Colorado. He responded to questions from the committee about recent outages of the state's 911 system.

Mr. Dean spoke about the funding of the PUC and challenges they face in getting all of their work accomplished. He encouraged the committee to look at the issue of fees as they relate to the PUC's statutory mandates. He talked about the new public comment wizard that has recently been implemented. He responded to questions from the committee.