 He also calls on infrastructure repair costs that are passed on to customers to be reexamined. Mike Murillo, WTOP News. In a statement, Pepco says the Maryland Public Service Commission has full authority to determine the appropriate costs and prudent investments to be built into rates, and that happens during a transparent rate review process. A Maryland man has been sentenced to 55 years behind bars for a shooting that left people hurt outside a Montgomery County restaurant last year.