1.   Howe, explaining this provision, said that purchased-power contracts and construction projects that won agency approval years ago would likely qualify for cost recovery.

2.   In the past, the costs of the first three items were reported as sales and marketing activities, and customer receipts were reported as cost recoveries.

3.   Massachusetts is urging electric companies to work out agreements on cost recovery with the state attorney general.

4.   Tax incentives for small business, neutral cost recovery in taxing businesses, reduction and indexing of capital gains tax.

5.   The commission steered away, however, from assuming authority over how to apportion such cost recovery.

6.   The FCC repeatedly has ruled that wireless service providers are not entitled to government cost recovery, he said.

7.   --Allow more generous depreciation for companies with large amounts of costly equipment, a provision called neutral cost recovery.

8.   Talks were focussing on cost recovery, levels of taxation and royalty payments, said BHP Petroleum Australia-Asia external affairs manager Bernie Delaney.