Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr. form letter to constituent, April 7, 1994

April 7, 1994 Thank you for making me aware of your concerns about Baltimore Gas & Electric Company's expansion into non-utility industries. As you can imagine, this issue caused a flood of mail and phone calls into my legislative office. Accordingly, I wanted to wait until the end of session before responding to your letter or phone call. As you know, the Senate Finance Committee killed the companion Senate bills earlier in the session. The companion House bills were subsequently given unfavorable reports as well since it made no sense for the House Environmental Matters Committee to pass legislation which would have been dead on arrival in the Senate. While the legislation may be dead for the 1994 legislative session, I know the Environmental Matters Committee remains concerned about the serious allegations that have been made by a number of contractors in recent months. Accordingly, the Committee intends to monitor the situation closely to ensure that BG&E is not using ratepayer revenues to finance non-re^ulated activities . Moreover, as a result of the publicity given this issue in recent months, members of the General Assembly have been assured the Public Service Commis¬ sion will do the same. I do not sit on Environmental Matters and so was not provided the benefit of the Committee deliberations. It is my observation, however, that BG&E's servicing of equipment should continue as long as the utility does not take advantage of its monopoly status to secure revenues from its regulated operations to unfairly subsidize the operations of its non- regulated operations.