Public utilities provide electric, gas, water or telephone service to customers in a specified area. Utilities have a duty to provide safe and adequate service on reasonable terms to anyone who lives within the service area on without discriminating between customers. Because most utilities operate in near monopolistic conditions, they can be heavily regulated by local, state, and federal authorities. Generally, the local and state agencies are called Public Service Commissions (PSC) or Public Utility Commissions (PUC). Municipal Utilities and Rural Electric Cooperatives may be unregulated though.
Babb is a small unincorporated community in Glacier County, Montana, United States, on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. It has one school (Babb School), a K-6 elementary school which had 36 students as of 2005 . Nearby attractions include the Many Glacier Hotel built in 1914.