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AVISTA CORPORATION
RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION

JURISDICTION: IDAHO DATE PREPARED: 07/22/2016
CASE NO: AVU-E-16-03 WITNESS: Mark Thies
REQUESTER: Clearwater Paper RESPONDER: Lauren Pendergraft
TYPE: Production Request DEPARTMENT: Finance
REQUEST NO.: Clearwater - 05 TELEPHONE: [phone]

REQUEST:

On page 35 of Mark Thies' testimony contains footnotes 9 (Moody's Investors Service, Rating Methodology, December 23, 2013) and 10 (Standard and Poor's Key Factors, March 2010). Please provide the complete report of both Moody's and Standard and Poor's referenced in footnotes 9 and 10.

RESPONSE:

See Clearwater_PR_05 Attachment A for the Moody’s report and Clearwater_PR_05 Attachment B for the S&P report.

First Production Request of the Clearwater Paper Corporation AVE-E-16-03
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