20191021Telephonic Hearing Transcript Vol I.pdf

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CSB REPORTING
Certifted Shorthand Reporten
Post Office Box 9774
Boise, Idaho 83707
[e-mail] Reporter:
Constance Bucy,
CSR
BEEORE THE I DAHO PUBLIC UTILITfES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPIICATION
EOR APPROVAL OE THE ASSET SALE
BETWEEN ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER
AND IDAHO POWER
CASE NO. PAC_E-19_11
COMMISSIONER PAUL KJELLANDER (Presiding )
COMMISSIONER KRISTINE RAPER
PLACE:Commission Conference Room
1l- 3 31 West Chinden BIvd.Building 8, Suite 2 01-ABoise, Idaho
DATE:October 75, 20L9
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For the Staff:Matt Hunter
Deputy Attorney General
113 31 West Chinden Blvd.
PO Box 83720Boise, Idaho 83120-AA1 4
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BOISE, IDAHO, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 20L9, 2:30 P. M
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: WeI1, good
afternoon. This is the time and place for a telephonic
public hearing in Case No. PAC-E-19-11, also known as in
the matter of the application for approval of the asset
sal-e between Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power. My
name is Paul Kjellander. I will be chairing today's
proceedings and why donrt we begin first with the
appearances of the parties and I bel-ieve we do have with
us lead counsel representing the Staff of the Idaho
Public Utif ities Commission.
MR. HUNTER: Correct. Would you like me
to do an overview of --
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: No, I would
not.
MR. HUNTER: Okay.
COMMISSIONER KITELLANDER: What I wouLd
realIy appreciate, though, is if you'd tefl us who you
are and who you represent just to make sure that we have
that clearl-y stated for the record.
MR. HUNTER: Certainly. Matt Hunter for
the Idaho Publi-c Util-iti-es Commission.
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COMMTSSIONER KJELLANDER: Great, thank you
thevery
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much, Matt, and Iet's see, do
who needs to be i-dentified for
we have anyone on
purposes of
appearances of the parties? We wifl take that silence as
a no. Do we have anyone efse in the room who needs to be
identified for purposes of appearances of the party? The
ans$rer to that
teL l- because I
absolutely no
participate in
to their phones and dial
is afso a resounding no, and I al-so can
was tol-d moments ago that there was
callers on the line right now who wish to
this s t atutori 1y-mandated public hea.ring.
Let me just cite the section of code
citing it. As a resuLt of Idaho Code
the Commission is mandated to hold a
and in this instance, j-t is a telephonic
of which we wil-l- now take a five-minute
those who are anxiously awaiting to get
us to have an opportunity to
because
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public
public
recess
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6t-328,
hearing,
hearing
to allow
participate.
With that, we
f i-ve mlnules wi-th the clock
will go off the record for
quickly counting down now.
(Recess. )
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: We are now back
on the record. We were init ia I1y
we alfowed six
only going to allow a
j ust in case someonefive-minute recess,
was desperatefy trying to get to that copper f j-ne to make
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that cal-f -in and we even al-Lowed extra seconds for people
with wirefess techno.Iogy to try to call in, and what
we've discovered i-s that no one has called and so as is
the case with many of these telephonic public hearings
associated with the statute section -- l-et me see if f
can flnd this 67-328, there being no cal-l-ers who
to this mandatory statutoryhave ava i led
again --
themselves
public hearing, I get to say that three times, we are at
the point
record has
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say that we do bel-ieve that the
developed.
is no additional comment
at the conc.l-usion of be
period, so
in about 30
it wi 11 be
prepared to
this case, whlch wiIl
ful1y submitted and the
del,iberate and render a
Commission
decision.
MR. HUNTER: Conmissioner, on this
particular case, f donrt think that repl-y comments have
been received on it yet --
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: That is so sad.
MR, HUNTER; -- at this point.
COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: That is so sad
that we have to continue it long enough to get reply
comnents, and what is the deadl-ine for those reply
comments just in case there were someone in the room who
had to be concerned about those reply corunents?
MR, HUNTER: They will be October 23rd ofo25
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COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: The 23rd of
October this calendar year in the A.D. scenario.
MR. HUNTER: I believe so.
COMM]SS]ONER KJELLANDER:
fantastic. Is there anything else that
Great,
f need to be
brought up to speed
MR.
on? Is that everything, then?
sure, I think thatrsHUNTER: For:
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COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER: Excel-f ent. Any
othe.r conments from anyone else? There being none, we
are adj ourned.
(The Hearing adjourned at 2:41 p.m.)
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AUTHENTICATION
This is to certify that the foregoing
telephonic proceedings held in the matter of the
application for approval- of the asset sale between Rocky
Mountain Power and Idaho Power, commencing at 2:30 p.m.
on Tuesday, October 75, 2019, at the Commission
conference room, 11331 West Chinden Bfvd., Building 8,
Suite 20L-A, Boise, Idaho, is a true and correct
transcript of said teJ-ephonic proceedings and the
original thereof for the file of the Commission.
CONSTANCECertified S. BUCY
Shorthand Reporter #18
COI.ISTANCE S BUCY
NOTARY PUBLIC . STA]E OF IDAHO
coMMtsstot NUMSER l2S5
lvlY COMMISSION APIRES 9+2021
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