Pitlock appointed to PUC

Tuesday, Feb. 2, 1999 | 10:06 a.m.

Nevada Department of Taxation, has been named by Gov.

Kenny Guinn to the three-member

Public Utilities Commission.

Pitlock served on the predecessor organization of

the PUC, the Public Service Commission, from

1987 to January 1995, when he took his present job.

Pitlock, a registered nonpartisan, joins Chairwoman

Judy Sheldrew, a Democrat, and Don Soderberg, a

Republican, on the utility regulation body. He replaces

Lucy Stewart, a Republican, who resigned from the

$80,700-a-year job last week.

A certified public accountant, Pitlock joined the

PSC staff as an auditor in 1979 and worked his way up

to director of regulatory operations.

He joins the PUC as the regulatory body grapples

with establishing rules to permit competition in the

electric utility industry.

The PUC also this year is

expected to hear general rate cases for Nevada Power

Co. and Sierra Pacific Power Co. and the proposed

acquisition of Southwest Gas Corp. by Oneok Inc. of

Tulsa, Okla.

"I'm looking forward to the challenge," Pitlock said.

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