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Home My WebLink About200503018th Request of Staff to UWI.pdfWELDON B. STUTZMAN DONOVAN E. WALKER DEPUTY ATTORNEYS GENERAL IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION PO BOX 83720 BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074 (208) 334-0318 AND (208) 334-0357 IDAHO BAR NO. 3283 AND 5921 . Street Address for Express Mail: 472 W. WASHINGTON BOISE, IDAHO 83702-5983 Attorney for the Commission Staff C"f " ' l--- ' "...".! "- "'" LVb.. " """" ;~- L \ , ,,-- r;, "'...... ZOfl5MAR -( Pi1 U rUdLIC UTILITIES CO~1t'i1iSSlON BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS RATES AND CHARGES FOR WATER SERVICE IN THE STATE OF IDAHO. CASE NO. UWI-04- EIGHTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO UNITED WATER IDAHO INC. The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, by and through its attorney of record Weldon B. Stutzman, Deputy Attorney General, requests that United Water Idaho Inc. (United Water; Company) provide the following documents and information on or before WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2005. The Staff requests the Company place special priority on answering these requests as soon as possible. In recognition that some questions require less time to answer than others, Staff asks that the Company file responses as they are completed rather than wait for the most time-intensive questions to be finished. 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 IDAP A 31.01.01.228. EIGHTH PRODUCTION REQUEST TO UNITED WATER MARCH 1 2005 This Production Request is to be considered as continuing, and United Water 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 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. Request No. 199: Please provide a listing ofprojects, if any, that have been suspended as of December 31 , 2004. Please include within your response: The project number. The proj ect description. The project's costs included within rate base by account. Request No. 200: Please identify all projects (by project number) on Witness Rhead' Exhibit No.8 which had not been started (with no expenditures for items other than such things as preliminary engineering costs, for example) as of December 31 , 2004. Request No. 201: Reference Witness Wyatt's testimony on page 18 regarding Order No. 29625 (Case No. UWI-04-, Carriage Hill Subdivision). In response to the Commission directive to the Company . .. to book the $28 138 amount originally proposed as a risk premium distribution to United Waterworks as regulated revenue to be passed through to customers in the Company s upcoming general rate case" Mr. Wyatt states that amount of revenue will not be fully known until sometime in December. Please provide an accounting of the transaction at closing including how the Company recalculated the risk premium. Request No. 202: Please describe all significant differences between the design of the CWTP as proposed by CDM in its proposal and the final design as is being constructed. Please describe all significant changes made from the initial plant design, the reasons for each change and the corresponding change in proj ect cost. Request No. 203: Reference Rhead p., lines 15-18 and Rhead Revised Exhibit No. 11. What is the source of the $12.87 million cost for the CWTP as listed in the tables of Exhibit No. 11 and as used to compute the cost per gallon for the plant? Why wasn t the $16.84 million Guaranteed Maximum Price (GMP) amount or the $18.20 million amount shown in the attachment to United Water s response to Staff Request No. 108 used instead for the computation? EIGHTH PRODUCTION REQUEST TO UNITED WATER MARCH 1 , 2005 Request No. 204: Information contained in United Water s response to Staff Production Request No. 52 indicates that a purchase order was placed with Ondeo Degremont Inc. (ODI) in December 2000 to provide a membrane system based on Aquasource cellulose acetate membranes. The information also indicates that the purchase order was later terminated after a decision was made to select a US Filter/Memcor system. Were any funds forfeited as a result of canceling the purchase order with ODI? Request No. 205: Please provide a copy of Document Number FOOI03 published by the Design-Build Education and Research Foundation as referred to in United Water s response to Staff Request No. 105. Request No. 206: In addition to the FAS 87 and FAS 132 Disclosures already provided please provide a report from the Company s actuaries that illustrates all of the following for the past five years: Development of the Actuarial Value of Plan Assets Detail of Employer Contributions Development of Credit Balance/(Funding Deficiency) Minimum Funding Standard Account Development of the Current Annual Cost and the Minimum Required Contribution Development of Normal Cost Development of Unfunded Frozen Actuarial Liability Schedule of Outstanding Balances and Amortization Amounts; Charges to the Minimum Funding Standard Account Schedule of Outstanding Balances and Amortization Amounts; Credits to the Minimum Funding Standard Account Development of the Maximum Deductible Contribution Calculation of the Full Funding Limitation Dated at Boise, Idaho, this sj-day of March 2005. eldon B. Stutzman Donovan E. Walker Deputy Attorneys General Technical Staff: Patricia Harms Donn English Rick Sterling i :umisc/prodreq/uwi wO4.4 wsdw8 MARCH 1 , 2005EIGHTH PRODUCTION REQUEST TO UNITED WATER CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE HEREBY CERTIFY THAT I HAVE THIS 1 ST DAY OF MARCH 2005 SERVED THE FOREGOING EIGHTH PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO UNITED WATER IDAHO INC., IN CASE NO. UWI-04-, BY MAILING A COpy THEREOF POSTAGE PREPAID, TO THE FOLLOWING: MARK GENNARI UNITED WATER 200 OLD HOOK RD HARRINGTON PARK NJ 07640 DEAN J MILLER ESQ McD EVITT & MILLER LLP PO BOX 2564 BOISE ID 83701 DOUGLAS K STRICKLING BOISE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE 150 N CAPITOL BLVD. PO BOX 500 BOISE ID 83701 CHUCK MICKELSON CITY OF BOISE 150 N CAPITOL BLVD. PO BOX 500 BOISE ID 83701 WILLIAM M. EDDIE ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST PO BOX 1612 BOISE ID 83701 BILL SEDIVY ID AH 0 RIVERS UNITED PO BOX 633 BOISE ID 83701 BRAD M. PURDY ATTORNEY AT LAW 2019 N 17TH STREET BOISE ID 83702 SHARON ULLMAN 9627 W. DESERT AVE BOISE ID 83709 SCOTT L. CAMPBELL 101 S CAPITOL BLVD., 10TH FLOOR PO BOX 829 BOISE ID 83701 L1/JSECRET~ CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE