PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
An Inventory of Its Records at the Minnesota Historical Society
Government Records
OVERVIEW
| Creator: | Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. | |
| Title: | Public Utilities Commission records. | |
| Dates: | 1980-2006. | |
| Language: | Materials in English. | |
| Abstract: | Records documenting the activities of this commission whose mission is to create and maintain a regulatory environment that ensures safe, reliable and efficient utility services at fair and reasonable rates. Included are minutes, agenda materials, and meeting calendars of the commission and its energy and telecommunications meetings; minutes of its cold weather rule meetings, at which it acted upon appeals by persons unable to pay their heating bills; news releases; and informal orders. | |
| Quantity: | 24.4 cubic feet (24 boxes and 1 partial box). | |
| Location: | See Detailed Description for shelf locations. |
ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
Availability:
The collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation:
[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. Public Utilities Commission Records. Minnesota Historical Society.
See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.
Accession Information:
Accession number(s): 985-100; 986-47; 991-153; 996-98; 2002-4; 2008-44
Processing Information:
Processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with a Basic Project grant awarded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Catalog ID number: 001716980
DETAILED DESCRIPTION
MINUTES
| 112.G.15.3B | 1980-1982. 3 folders. | ||||||||||||
| 112.K.15.1B | 1983-1990. | ||||||||||||
| 104.C.16.3B | 1991-1997. 3 folders. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.1B | 1988-2006. 9 folders. | ||||||||||||
AGENDA PACKETS
File include schedules, petitions, investigation reports, issue summaries, background and findings, references to policy, and commission recommendations. Prior to 1996, the full commission meeting agendas included materials from separate meetings dealing with telecommunications and with energy. The energy meetings began being filed separately in 1996; the telecommunications meetings in 1998.
| 112.K.15.2F | Commission meetings: | ||||||||||||
| January 1983-December 1984. | |||||||||||||
| 112.K.15.3B | January 1985-April 1987. | ||||||||||||
| 112.K.15.4F | May 1987-August 1988. | ||||||||||||
| 112.K.15.5B | September 1988-December 1989. | ||||||||||||
| 104.C.16.1B | January 1990-May 1991. | ||||||||||||
| 104.C.16.2F | June 1991-June 1992. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.4F | July 1992-May 1993. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.5B | June 1993-October 1994. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.6F | November 1994-July 1995. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.7B | August 1995-July 1996. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.8F | August 1996-October 1997. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.9B | November 1997-July 14, 1998. | ||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.10F | Energy meetings: | ||||||||||||
| 1996-1997. | |||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.1B | January-March 1998. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.2F | April 1998-2000. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.3B | 2001-November 2003. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.4F | December 2003. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.4F | Telecommunications meetings: | ||||||||||||
| 1998-August 1999. | |||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.5B | September 1999-September 2000. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.6F | October 2000-May 2002. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.7B | May 2002-December 2003. 10 folders. | ||||||||||||
INFORMAL ORDERS
WEEKLY CALENDAR OF MEETINGS
| 104.C.16.4F | 1980-January 1988, March 1989-December 1992, 1993-1995. | ||||||||||||
| Includes August 1982 Weekly Calendar Manual. | |||||||||||||
| 126.C.9.9B | 1996-1997. | ||||||||||||
| 112.A.4.8F | 1998-2001. | ||||||||||||
| 120.D.1.6F | 2002-2003. 8 folders. | ||||||||||||
NEWS RELEASES
COLD WEATHER RULE MINUTES
| 120.D.1.6F | 1983 1986. 2 folders. | ||||||||||||
| Record of appeals to the Commission by persons unable to pay their heating bills. | |||||||||||||
| [0.8 cubic feet full, legal] | |||||||||||||
RELATED MATERIAL
CATALOG HEADINGS
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
- Topics:
- Older people -- Minnesota -- Energy assistance.
- People with disabilities -- Minnesota -- Energy assistance.
- Poor -- Minnesota -- Energy assistance.
- Public utilities -- Law and legislation -- Minnesota.
- Public utilities -- Rates -- Minnesota.
- Telecommunication -- Rates -- Minnesota.
- Organizations:
- Minnesota. Department of Public Service.
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