§ 37-2-114 — Authority to confer with other state and federal commissions; expenses

(a) The commission may confer in person, by attending
conventions or otherwise, with the members of railroad or other
public utility commissions of other states and with the surface
transportation board on any matters relating to public
utilities, and shall be allowed actual traveling expenses when
engaged in such work.
(b) In regulating the transmission of electricity:
(i) The commission may meet in conjunction with
public utility commissions of other states as it determines
necessary or convenient to develop common sets of fact finding
for regulation of the transmission of electricity in the region.
Any common set of facts developed under this paragraph shall
only be developed under a docketed commission proceeding with
opportunity for participation by the public in compliance with
the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act and commission rules;
(ii) The commission may meet jointly with public
utility commissions of other states to conduct hearings on the
regulation of the transmission of electricity. The commission
shall act independently in entering any order as a result of
such hearings;
(iii) Subject to W.S. 37-2-122, the commission may
consider regional effects of its orders upon the utility and may
consider requirements imposed upon the utility by the laws of
other states within the region or the orders of other
commissions within the region.
(c) As used in subsection (b) of this section, "region"
includes any state with a border contiguous to Wyoming and the
states of Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota,
Oregon and Washington.