Utah House committee backs bill aimed at unplugging power provision disputes

SALT LAKE CITY — Territorial issues that have erupted between a special electric service district and handful of south Utah County cities would be grounded under provisions of a bill supported by a House committee Wednesday.House Majority Whip Francis Gibson, R-Mapleton, said a decades-old contract between the South Utah Valley Electric Service District, created by the Legislature in the mid-'80s, and the cities of Elk Ridge, Mapleton, Payson, Spanish Fork and Woodland Hills, is no longer