The Public Service Commission (PSC) is meeting its goal of ensuring safe, legal for-hire motor carrier transportation and is providing effective customer advocacy and gas pipeline safety programs for regulated utilities. Despite this overall conclusion, each program has significant administrative, management, and operational problems. The Railroad Inspection Program experiences significant staffing, operational, management, and training problems. The PSC’s decentralized management concept of dividing resources and oversight among electoral districts which have no relationship to regulatory or safety workload is a major cause of most management problems.
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