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BRAD PURDY
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO  83720-0074
[phone]
Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W WASHINGTON
BOISE ID  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 INCLUDE IN ITS PCA PROJECTION METHOD, COMMENCING WITH THE COMPANY’S 1999 PCA FILING, RECENT EXPENDITURES FOR QF POWER PURCHASE CONTRACTS.
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CASE NO. IPC-E-98-13
STAFF’S MOTION FOR
EXTENSION OF TIME
COMES NOW  the Commission Staff, by and through its attorney of record, Brad M. Purdy, Deputy Attorney General, and moves the Commission, pursuant to Rule 256 of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure, IDAPA 31.01.01.256, for an Order extending the deadline for the filing of comments by Staff and all interested parties in this case for a period of fourteen (14) days.  The deadline is currently scheduled for Thursday, December 31, 1998.  Staff requests an extension of this deadline to Thursday, January 14, 1999.  Staff has been informed by counsel for the Idaho Power Company, the only other formal party to this proceeding as of this time, that Idaho Power has no objections to Staff’s Motion for Extension of Time.
WHEREFOR, the Commission Staff respectfully requests that the Commission issue an Order forthwith extending the comment deadline in this case for Staff and interested persons from December 31, 1998 to January 14, 1999.
DATED at Boise, Idaho this day of December 1998.

Brad M. Purdy
Deputy Attorney General
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