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• DOCKET f~U. 2676 APPL ICATION OF HOUSTON LIGHTING ~ • & POWER COf~IPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO ~ INCREASE RATES WITHIN AUSTIN, j BRAZORIA, CHAMBERS, COLORADO, ~ FORT BEND, GALVES(ON, HARRIS, L IBERTY, h1A(AGORDA, h10NTGOfdERY, ~ ~JALLER AND WHARTON COUNTIES ~ ORDER PUBLIC UTILITY COMMiSSIUN OF TEXAS In public meeting at its offices in Austin, Texas, the Public Utility Commission of Texas finds that after statutory notice was provided to the public and to interested parties, a hearing in the above-styled cause was conducted by an Examiner who issued an Examiner's Report and an Amended Examiner's Report containing Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law, which report as amended, except for changes made herein, is adopted and made a part hereof. The Commission further issues the following Order. . I. The petition of Nouston Lighting & Power Company (HL&P) for a rate increase is hereby granted in part and denied in part as set out in • the Examiner's Report and Amended Examiner's Report with the following changes and additions: A. HL&P shall revise Tariff Sheet No. Dl to eliminate declining block winter rates for residential customers and shall design residential rates using a customer charge of $5.40 per month including 30 kwh rather than the amount recommended by the Examiner. B. HL&P shall revise Tariff Sheet. No. E13 to eliminate the last complete paragraph of tf~e Emergency Electric Curtailment Plan. In accordance with the order herein that this Plan. be reviewed in detai 1 by HL&P and the Commission Staff, the Staff is hereby ordered to monitor HL&P's use of and proposals for use of this Plan as it feels necessary and HL&P is ordered to provide information concerning the Plan as requested by the Staff and to • co-operate with the Staff in this monitoring function. Intervenors to this case may make suggestions to the Staff concerning the Staff's monitoring plans. C. The following Finding of Fact No. 19 shall be added to the Report as adopted herein: 19. In order to determine the amounts HL&P may pass through its fuel clause to ratepayers it is reasonable for tl~e coal charge HL&P pays • to Utility Fuels, Inc. to be calculated as follows: a. The coal charge per ton shall be equal to the cost per ton of coal paid by UFI to its .supplier plus-the actual rail charge per ton. Coal charge per ton Coal cost per tun as paid by UFI + rail charge per ton