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SCOTT WOODBURY
Deputy Attorney General
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO Box 83720
Boise, ID  83720-0074
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472 W Washington
Boise, ID  83702-5983
Attorney for the Commission Staff
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE CONNECTION
FEES  OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC.  
AND OTHER RELATED ISSUES INCLUDING RATE DESIGN.
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CASE NO. UWI-W-96-4
ANSWER OF COMMISSION STAFF TO MOTION OF BUILDING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH­WEST IDAHO FOR EXTEN­SION OF TIME TO FILE TESTIMONY
COMES NOW the Commission Staff by and through its attorney of record, Scott D.  Woodbury, and by way of Answer pursuant to Rule 57.03 of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure, recommends that an extension of time to file testimony, if granted pursuant to the pending Motion of the Building Contractors Association of Southwest Idaho (Contractors), be extended to all parties of record.  Staff acknowledges that United Water Idaho Inc. has been late in providing complete responses to discovery requests.  Pursuant to the procedure agreed to by the parties and adopted in this case, a simultaneous prefile of direct testimony was envisioned.  No procedure has yet been adopted for rebuttal testimony and the Contractors should not be permitted to turn their direct case into a rebuttal case.  It is suggested, that all parties in this case would benefit from the full participation of the Contractors and the results of their reasoned consideration and independent analysis and suggestions regarding the issues of line extension and hook up charges.
DATED at Boise, Idaho this                  day of November 1996.

Scott D.  Woodbury
Deputy Attorney General
vld/N:UWI-W-96-4.sw3
CERTIFICATE  OF  SERVICE
I  HEREBY  CERTIFY  THAT  I  HAVE  THIS 25th DAY  OF NOVEMBER  1996,  SERVED  THE  FOREGOING ANSWER OF COMMISSION STAFF TO MOTION OF BUILDING CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH­WEST IDAHO FOR EXTEN­SION OF TIME TO FILE TESTIMONY IN  CASE  NO. UWI-W-96-4 BY  MAILING  A  COPY  THERE­OF,  POSTAGE  PREPAID,  TO  THE  FOLLOWING:
WAYNE BOOE
UNITED WATER IDAHO INC
PO BOX 7488
BOISE ID   83707
DEAN J MILLER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
PO BOX 2564
BOISE ID   83701-2564

SHARON ULLMAN
9627 W DESERT AVE
BOISE ID 83709
PETER J RICHARDSON
DAVIS WRIGHT TREMAINE
999 MAIN ST STE 911
BOISE ID 83702
FRANKIE HICKMAN
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
BUILDING CONTRACTORS ASSOC
   OF SOUTHWESTERN IDAHO INC
11120 W EXECUTIVE DR
BOISE ID 83713
DR DON READING
BEN JOHNSON ASSOCIATES
1227 EL PELAR DR
BOISE ID 83702    
FOREST R.  GOODRUM
PENLAND MUNTHER BOARDMAN, CHT’D
JEFFERSON PLACE
350 N.  9TH STREET, STE.  500
PO BOX 199
BOISE ID 83701            

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