20070509notice_of_application.pdf

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
May 9, 2007
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION
OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INc. TO
AMEND AND REVISE CERTIFICATE OF
PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY
NO. 143 TO INCLUDE BRITTANIA
HEIGHTS
CASE NO. UWI-O7-
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NOTICE OF
MODIFIED PROCEDURE
NOTICE OF
COMMENT /PROTEST DEADLINE
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on April 23, 2007, United Water Idaho Inc.
(United Water; Company) filed an Application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission
(Commission) requesting authority to amend and revise its Certificate of Public Convenience and
Necessity No. 143 , as amended, to include an area located on McDermott Road in Canyon
County, Idaho identified as Brittania Heights. The Brittania Heights subdivision is located in the
vicinity of United Water s Belmont Heights service area. The Application of the Company
includes a legal description and map of the Brittania Heights subdivision.
The developer of Brittania Heights, Patriot Capital Partners LLC, has requested that
United Water extend domestic water service facilities to the area and United Water has
determined it has the capability to provide service. Water service facilities will be extended to
the area pursuant to United Water s Rules and Regulations governing extensions.
As represented in the Company s Application, the proposed development of Brittania
Heights is not within the authorized service territory of any other water utility under the
jurisdiction of the Commission nor, it states, will it interfere with the operations of any such
utility. United Water further contends that the City ofNampa, Idaho, a municipal water provider
with facilities in the vicinity of Brittania Heights, has consented to service by United Water.
United Water submits that the extension into this area is consistent with the public convenience
and necessity.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Commission has reviewed the filings of
record in Case No. UWI-07-03 and has preliminarily found that the public interest in this
matter may not require a hearing to consider the issues presented, and that issues raised by the
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE
NOTICE OF COMMENT/PROTEST DEADLINE
Company s filing may be processed under Modified Procedure, i., by written submission
rather than by hearing. Reference Commission Rules of Procedure, IDAP A 31.01.01.201-204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the deadline for filing written comments or
protests with respect to United Water s Application and the use of Modified Procedure in Case
No.UWI-07-03 is Friday, June 8, 2007.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if no written comments or protests are
received within the deadline, the Commission may consider the matter on its merits and may
enter its Order without a formal hearing. If comments or protests are filed within the deadline
the Commission will consider them and in its discretion may set the matter for hearing or may
decide the matter and issue its Order based on the written positions before it. Reference IDAP
31.01.01.204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that written comments concerning Case No. UWI-
07-03 should be mailed to the Commission and the Company at the addresses reflected
below.
Commission Secretary
Idaho Public Utilities Commission
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID 83720-0074
Gregory P. Wyatt
United Water Idaho Inc.
PO Box 190420
Boise, ID 83719-0420
E-mail: greg.wvatt(?)unitedwater.com
Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W. Washington Street
Boise, ID 83702-5983
Dean 1. Miller, Esq.
McDevitt & Miller, LLC
PO Box 2564
Boise, ID 83701-2564
E-mail: ioe(?)mcdevitt-miller.com
All comments should contain the case caption and case number shown on the first page of this
document.Persons desiring to submit comments via e-mail may do so by accessing the
Commission s home page located at www.puc.idaho.gov. Click the "Comments and Questions
icon, and complete the comment form, using the case number as it appears on the front of this
document. These comments must also be sent to the Applicant at the e-mail addresses listed
above.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Application in Case No. UWI-07-
may be viewed at the Commission s website www.puc.idaho.gov by clicking on "File Room
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and "Water Cases " or can be viewed during regular business hours at the Idaho Public Utilities
Commission, 472 W. Washington Street, Boise, Idaho and at the principal business office of
United Water, 8248 West Victory Road, Boise, Idaho.
DATED at Boise, Idaho this
q+A day of May 2007.
~ill Jea . Jewell Co ,ission Secretary
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