20130607Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER REDFORD
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: KARL KLEIN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: MAY 31, 2013

SUBJECT: COLUMBINE TELEPHONE COMPANY’S PETITION TO AMEND ITS
CERTIFICATED SERVICE AREA BOUNDARY, CASE NO. COL-T-13-01

On February 8, 2013, Columbine Telephone Company, Inc. petitioned the
Commission for an Order amending the service area boundary described in the Company’s
Certificate No. 329. See Petition for Amendment of Certificated Service Area Boundary
(“Petition”). The Company asks the Commission to process the case under Modified Procedure.
THE PETITION
The Company is a Title 61 regulated telephone corporation organized under
Wyoming law, with its principal place of business in Freedom, Wyoming. It is authorized to do
business in Idaho, and it maintains central offices in Driggs, Victor, and Tetonia Idaho. Petition
at 1. The Company provides basic local exchange telecommunications services, mobile
telephone services, transport services to interexchange carriers, special access services,
broadband, and other telecommunications services that customers may require. Id.
The Commission issued Certificate No. 329 to the Company in 1997 as a result of the
Commission-approved purchase and transfer of Qwest exchanges. See Order Nos. 26353 and
27166. Id. at 2. The Company requests an amendment to the Certificate to correct the
certificated exchange areas so they accurately reflect the Company’s actual service areas. The
Company says it has served the areas within the corrected boundaries since 1997, and that it
remains willing to serve, and is best able to serve, the customers within the corrected boundaries.
Id.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
The Company says the requested Certificate amendment will not affect any other
certificated telephone carrier’s service area boundary, and that the corrected boundaries are not
near and will not interfere with any other’s utility’s existing lines, plants, or systems. Id.
The Company’s Petition attaches copies of the Company’s Certificate (Exhibit A),
illustrations depicting the Company’s actual service area (Exhibit B), and a legal description for
each amended certificate service area exchange being requested (Exhibits C, D, and E). The
Company asks that the Commission grant an amendment to the Certificate that incorporates the
boundary correction adjustments reflected in Petition Exhibits C, D, and E. See Petition at 3-4.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission process the Company’s Petition under
Modified Procedure with a 21-day comment period.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to process the Company’s Petition under Modified
Procedure with a 21-day comment period?

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