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Home My WebLink About200311052nd Request of Staff to Idaho Power.pdfLISA NORDSTROM DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION PO BOX 83720 BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074 (208) 334-0314 BAR NO. 5733 HECE1VED FILED 2003 NOV -S PM y: 00 :: \ I' UTILrhES COMr11SSIOH Street Address for Express Mail: 472 W. WASHINGTON BOISE, IDAHO 83702-5983 Attorney for the Commission Staff BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS INTERIM AND BASE RATES AND CHARGES FOR ELECTRIC SERVICE. CASE NO. IPC-O3- SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, by and through its attorney of record Lisa Nordstrom, Deputy Attorney General, requests that Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power; Company) provide the following documents and information. The Company is reminded that responses pursuant to Commission Rules of Procedure must include the name and phone number of the person preparing the document, and the name location and phone number of the record holder. Reference IDAPA 31.01.01.228. This Production Request is to be considered as continuing, and Idaho Power is requested to provide, by way of supplementary responses, additional documents that it or any person acting on its behalf may later obtain that will augment the documents produced. Please provide answers to each question, supporting workpapers that provide detail or are the source of information used in calculations, and the name and telephone number of the person SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO IDAHO POWER NOVEMBER 5, 2003 preparing the documents. Please identify the name, location and telephone number of the record holder. For each item, please indicate the name of the person(s) preparing the answers, along with the job title of such person(s) and the witness who can sponsor the answer at hearing if need be. Please provide the following documents and information AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: Request No.5: Please provide all workpapers that support the Danskin power plant adjustment. Include invoices and workpapers that support the total cost of the project. Request No.6: Please provide all workpapers and invoices that support the requested increase due to hydro relicensing costs. Request No.7: Please provide the supporting schedules that relate to the depreciation expense increase. Show how the proposed increase matches the Stipulation currently before the Commission. Request No.8: Please provide all supporting documentation relating to the jurisdictional net power supply costs and the proposed increase. Please provide the following documents and information on or before MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2003: Request No.9: Please provide federal and state income tax returns for 2000-2002 for Idaho Power. Request No. 10: Please provide an analysis of the actual cost of capital at year-end for 2001 and 2002. Also show the projected amounts for 2003. Provide debt amounts and debt costs, equity amounts and costs, and all account numbers for amounts involved. Request No. 11: Please provide a debt schedule showing all long-term and short-term debt amounts, outstanding stated interest rates, premiums, discounts, unamortized issuance expenses, and effective cost rates for 2000 through 2002 for Idaho Power. Show the projected amounts for 2003. Request No. 12: Please provide a current organization chart showing names of employees and their titles for all management and administrative staff. Request No. 13: Please provide compensation detail for all management and officers of IDACORP, Idaho Power and all affiliates that share employees with Idaho Power including salary, incentive pay, bonuses, stock options, and other benefits and taxes for the years 2001- SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO IDAHO POWER NOVEMBER 5, 2003 2002. Also provide complete compensation estimates for 2003. Show allocations between the utility and the affiliates. Include any compensation studies used to set the salaries. Request No. 14: Please provide a list of all legal expenses from 2001 to current and their status including descriptions, estimates of liability and possible ramifications to the Company. Request No. 15: Please provide a billing summary showing monthly breakdown of revenue by class for 2001-2003. Show dollars, KWhs, and number of customers. Request No. 16: Please provide a description of the retirement and/or pension plans. Request No. 17: Please provide a copy ofthe Cost Allocation Manual. Please provide a description of how and when payroll is allocated, and how and when payroll expenses are directly assigned. Include a schedule of the allocation between regulated and non-regulated activities. Request No. 18: Please provide the average percentage of salary increases for employees each year during 1995-2003. Please provide the average percentage of incentive pay for the same period. Request No. 19: Please prepare a schedule of plant and changes since the last rate case. Show additions, retirements and reductions to the accumulated depreciation reserves by account for each year. Request No. 20: Prepare an account analysis schedule of Accumulated Deferred Income Taxes for 2000 - 2003 showing beginning balances and deferred income taxes generated, minus amortization of deferred income taxes. Show all other specific changes to the deferred income tax account. Request No. 21: Please provide an analysis ofthe Company s Green Power Program. For each year since its inception and a projected amount for 2003 , indicate: the number of customers participating, dollars collected, energy purchased, advertising costs and all other administrative costs along with the account numbers where the amounts are booked. Request No. 22: Provide copies of all budgets that were used to prepare the 2003 test year. Request No. 23: Please provide copies of all workpapers that substantiate the actual and estimated amounts in the Deferred Conservation Programs as of December 31 , 2003. List each item individually in each account. Request No. 24: Please provide copies of all workpapers that substantiate the actual and estimated amounts in the Other Deferred Programs as of December 31 , 2003. List each item individually in each account. SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO IDAHO POWER NOVEMBER 5 , 2003 Request No. 25: Provide copies of the Notes Payable to Subsidiary found in Column #3 of Exhibit No. 16, page 22. Request No. 26: Please provide the workpapers that substantiate the $8 356 933 used on Exhibit No. 18 page 2 to increase payroll expense. Request No. 27: Please provide the workpapers that substantiate the $23 161 303 in annualized plant the Company requests to recover in Exhibit No. 18, page 3. Request No. 28: Please provide the workpapers that substantiate the American Falls Interest adjustment of $297,436 found in Exhibit No. 19, page 3. Request No. 29: Please provide a copy of all insurance contracts (in 2003 and 2004) used to justify the Company s request for an increase in liability and property insurance expense. Request No. 30: Show how the 5.1053% allocation factor to subsidiaries was developed. Request No. 31: Provide the workpapers that substantiate the annual differences in prescription expenses booked in 2002 - 2004. Dated at Boise, Idaho, this .5 day of November 2003. Lisa Nordstrom Deputy Attorney General Technical Staff: Alden Holm i:umisc/prodreq/ipceO3.131nkhrps2 SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST TO IDAHO POWER NOVEMBER 5 , 2003 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS 5TH DAY OF NOVEMBER 2003 SERVED THE FOREGOING SECOND PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY, IN CASE NO. IPC-03-, BY MAILING A COpy THEREOF, POSTAGE PREPAID, TO THE FOLLOWING: BARTON L KLINE MONICA MOEN IDAHO POWER COMPANY PO BOX 70 BOISE, ID 83707-0070 JOHN R GALE VICE PRESIDENT - REGULATORY AFFAIRS IDAHO POWER COMPANY PO BOX 70 BOISE, ID 83707-0070 ttJifY;tY CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE