Pa. group to PUC: change self help tariff. (Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, natural gas)

PITTSBURGH--An ad-hoc committee of Pennsylvania gas producers, distribution utilities and industrial users has issued a consensus statement urging the state Public Utility Commission to revise its existing transportation tariffs for contract carriage gas from a formula that relies on gross margin calculations to one based on cost-of-service principles, group sources said.

The Monday Group committee was formed last summer under state Rep. Charles Laughlin in an attempt to develop an alternative to a commission order that required all gas distribution utilities in the state to develop and file tariffs under which contract carriage or "self-help" gas would be …