It had all the elements of a Grisham novel: a sweaty, packed hearing room, allegations and counter-allegations, citizens scorned going up against the billion-dollar corporate monopoly.

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HB320 took center stage again Wednesday afternoon at the first meeting of the 2000 Public Utilities and Technology interim committee. The bill, which passed into law last month and is slated to go into effect in July 2001, changes the way utilities are regulated in Utah. It also ignited one of the hottest debates during the 2000 Legislature, which on Wednesday picked up right where it left off.The bill's sponsor, Rep. David Ure, R-Kamas, said the existing process needed to be streamlined and was unduly adversarial to the state's vital utilities. Streamlining,

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