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I hope you will take the time to review this survey of what state utillty commissions are doing to incorporate environmental externalitles Into the regula_rT:: process. The NARUC Energy Conservation Committee asked Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory to undertake this survey and wishes to express its deep appreciation for the work done by Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. The Energy Conservation Committee with the assistance of the Department of Energy also initiated a conference on environmental externalities in New England in 1989 and wlll sponsor a nationwide conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming October 1-3, 1990. Efforts by commissions to address environmental externallties are escalating rapidly as national attention has focused on acid rain legislation and possible strategies for dealing wlth the threat of This survey provides a useful snapshot of this i global warming.