PSC 6.03(13)(13) Determining compliance with and enforcement of s. 196.795 (6m) (b), Stats., including the costs of determining the assets of each nonutility affiliate;

PSC 6.03(14)(14) Investigating and making determinations regarding the selling at retail, leasing, installing, maintaining or servicing of appliances pursuant to s. 196.795 (5) (g), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(15)(15) Investigating, and approving or disapproving, the use by nonutility affiliates of the services of employes of public utility affiliates pursuant to s. 196.795 (5) (r), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(16)(16) Regulating property contracts or arrangements between public utility affiliates and nonutility affiliates pursuant to s. 196.795 (5) (s), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(17)(17) Administering the reporting requirements set forth in s. 196.795 (6), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(18)(18) Conducting commission investigations into the impact of the operation of every holding company system on every public utility affiliate in the holding company system as set forth in s. 196.795 (7), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(19)(19) Conducting hearings and investigations to determine if any practice of a holding company system violates any provisions of s. 196.795 (5) (b) to (s), Stats., or any limitation, term or condition of the certificate of approval to form a holding company, all pursuant to s. 196.795 (7) (b), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(20)(20) Conducting all litigation arising out of any order of the commission directing a holding company system to modify or cease a practice which violates any provision of s. 196.795 (5) (b) to (s), Stats., or any limitation, term or condition of its certificate of approval to form a holding company;

PSC 6.03(21)(21) Conducting any investigation and hearing regarding the necessity of ordering a holding company to terminate its interest in a public utility affiliate under s. 196.795 (7) (c), Stats., and any litigation associated therewith;

PSC 6.03(22)(22) Conducting any intervention by the commission in any proceeding which involves an application of or issue related to s. 196.795, Stats., pursuant to its authority to intervene under s. 196.795 (10), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(23)(23) Providing assistance, monitoring and advocacy in protecting small business interests under s. 196.795, Stats., in any action or proceedings before the commission, pursuant to s. 196.795 (10m), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(24)(24) Conducting any other litigation arising out of the performance of the commission’s regulatory duties with respect to the implementation and enforcement of s. 196.795, Stats.;

PSC 6.03(25)(25) Ascertaining and collecting payment of the commission’s holding company regulation costs under s. 196.84, Stats.;

PSC 6.03(26)(26) Determining future investment terms, limitations or conditions on holding companies formed prior to November 28, 1985, pursuant to s. 196.795 (11) (b), Stats.;

PSC 6.03(27)(27) All other costs and expenses reasonably required in order for the commission to implement and enforce s. 196.795, Stats.

PSC 6.03 HistoryHistory: Cr. Register, November, 1986, No. 371, eff. 12-1-86; correction in (13) made under s. 13.93 (2m) (b) 7., Stats., Register April 2007 No. 616.

PSC 6.04(1)(1) Holding companies;

PSC 6.04(2)(2) Nonutility affiliates;

PSC 6.04(3)(3) Public utilities prior to their becoming public utility affiliates, in circumstances where there does not exist a holding company or a nonutility affiliate against which to assess the commission’s holding company regulation costs. Examples of such situations include a person who has applied for but has not yet been granted a certificate of approval to form a holding company; a person who has applied for and has been denied a certificate of approval to form a holding company; and a holding company or nonutility affiliate which has insufficient resources with which to pay the commission’s holding company regulation costs. In the event a public utility pays these holding company regulation costs, said costs are not to be recouped by the utility through the rates which it charges consumers.

PSC 6.04(4)(4) Except as provided in sub. (3), assessments for the commission’s holding company regulation costs may not be made directly or indirectly against any public utility affiliate.

PSC 6.05(1)(1) Activities includable. All investigations, hearings, proceedings and all other activities which are reasonably attributable to a particular holding company or nonutility affiliate, whether or not a docket number is assigned, shall be included in the direct assessment of the costs of any increase in the regulation of any public utility affiliate of that holding company or nonutility affiliate.

PSC 6.05(2)(2) Types of expenses. The following types of expenditures attributable to the performance of the commission’s holding company regulatory duties shall be included in direct assessments: