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.
Claysburg is a census-designated place (CDP) along Interstate 99 and the Allegheny Front near the base of Blue Knob (Pennsylvania), the 1961 location of Claysburg Air Force Station (originally Blue Knob Park). State politician Tony Barr resides in Claysburg.