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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4958 ..

(c) The fees are standardised, the customer is not charged on an hourly basis.

2. (a) Most of the work on existing overhead lines including pole replacement and conductor retensioning is classified as maintenance and is performed at ACTEW expense with NO cost to a resident. Similarly, if a pole is removed as the result of system augmentation and/or modifications the cost is carried by ACTEW.

(b) A resident requesting a removal of a pole from his/her block (if the request is technically feasible) is required to cover the cost of associated construction work. The modifications to the electricity system resulting from such a request would typically include undergrounding of existing lines. The cost components of the work include materials (cables, conduits etc.), labour (trenching, cable installation, removal of the existing lines), plant (cranes, lifter/borer etc.). Charges for materials are based on cost recovery and charges for plant are based on the recovery of hire/leasing cost.

(c) Labour charge is $52 per hour for the field officers. There is NO additional labour charged for the design, drafting, engineering and technical support.

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