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SCOTT D. WOODBURY
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, ID 83720-0074
[phone]
STREET ADDRESS FOR EXPRESS MAILING:
472 W. WASHINGTON ST.
BOISE, ID 83702-5983
Attorney for the Commission Staff
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF TROY HOFFMAN WATER CORPORATION, INC.  FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES.
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CASE NO. TRH-W-95-1
STAFF COMMENTS
COMES NOW the Commission Staff by and through its attorney of record, Scott D. Woodbury, Deputy Attorney General, and hereby adopts its previously filed audit report in Case No. TRH-W-95-1 (copy attached) as its comments and recommendations.  Staff further recommends that the Commission schedule an evening public hearing in this matter in Coeur d’Alene for the limited purpose of receiving the oral testimony and comments of the Company’s customers and interested members of the public, and providing an opportunity for the Commissioners to question the Applicant Company and Commission Staff.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this               day of July 1996.
                                                                         Scott D. Woodbury
Deputy Attorney General
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