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.
Long Pond, Pennsylvania is an unincorporated community in the Pocono Mountains region of Pennsylvania, a part of the Appalachian Mountains. The zip code is 18334. It is primarily noted as the location of Pocono Raceway, a track which hosts two annual NASCAR Sprint Cup races and other events, the Pocono 500 in June and the Pennsylvania 500 in August as of 2007.