Highlights

Jim Boyle Played an Important Role in Successful Outcomes

 Before State Agencies

 Landowners and environment

• Denial of routing of high voltage power line across Fort Worth Nature Center
• Denial of construction permit for coal-fired power plant near San Antonio
• Denial of routing of high voltage power line near Inks Lake State Park

Ratepayers

• Removal of hundreds of millions of dollars in excess costs from electric rates for construction of nuclear power plants
• Denial of consolidation of water utilities that would have raised rates for thousands of customers
• Moved ratepayers of private water utility to municipally-owned utility with lower rates
• Abandonment of effort by agency to severely limit number of questions or documents to be supplied in review of rates of electric companies

Before Texas Legislature

• Establishing standards for construction of manufactured housing
• Adoption of Expanded Local Calling Act
• Adoption of Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act
• Transfer of water/sewer ratemaking jurisdiction to the Public Utility Commission
• Expanded service territory of  a municipally-owned utility
• Keeping Northeast Texas utility from imposing higher rates through electric utility deregulation
• Passage of legislation that provided the basis for a municipally-owned utility to be able to offer cable TV and internet service