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Senate hearing presses LUMA contract oversight, transparency and reimbursement rules
Summary
Lawmakers questioned the LUMA contract’s reimbursement rules, bonuses and potential hidden revenues, heard an estimate of roughly $1 million to staff oversight, and recessed the hearing for follow-up; officials disagreed over whether reimbursements could become income.
Speaker 2 pressed officials at a Senate hearing on March 26, 2021 about who will enforce environmental and contract requirements under the new agreement with LUMA, saying federal regulators ‘‘la EPA los la EPA los va a multar.’’ Speaker 1 replied that enforcement is shared among the regulator, the authority owner and administrators and described their own role: “yo soy abogado ambiental y de energía” and offered to participate in oversight.
The session focused on two central lines of inquiry: how much it will cost to provide technical oversight of the operator and whether the contract’s reimbursement rules allow LUMA to generate additional income. When asked…
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