HomeMy WebLinkAbout960404.docxSCOTT WOODBURY
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
472 WEST WASHINGTON STREET
STATEHOUSE MAIL
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-6000
(208) 334-0320
ATTORNEY FOR THE COMMISSION STAFF
BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT )
APPLICATION OF UNITED WATER IDAHO ) CASE NO. UWI-W-96-1/
INC. AND WARM SPRINGS MESA, INC. FOR) WSM-W-96-1
AN ORDER APPROVING THE SALE AND )
TRANSFER OF WATER SERVICE)FIRST PRODUCTION
PROPERTIES BY WARM SPRINGS MESA)REQUEST OF THE
TO UNITED WATER IDAHO INC.)COMMISSION STAFF
)TO UNITED WATER
_____________________________________________)IDAHO INC.
The Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission by and through its attorney of record, Scott Woodbury, Deputy Attorney General, requests United Water Idaho Inc. provide the following documents and information, pursuant to Commission Rule of Procedure 225, IDAPA 31.01.01.225, on or before APRIL 25, 1996.
This production request is to be considered as continuing, and United Water Idaho Inc. is requested to provide by way of supplementary responses, additional documents that you or any person acting on your 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; the name and telephone number of the person preparing the documents; and the name, location and telephone number of the record holder.
REQUEST NO. 1: In the filing UWI-W-96-1/WSM-W-96-1, United Water Idaho Inc. states the rate base as $340,037. Based on its review of prior orders, Staff arrived at a different rate base for Warm Springs Mesa, Inc. In Case No. WSM-W-93-2, Order No. 25445, average rate base for the year ending 1992 was $116,010 and the actual year-end rate base was $111,684. If the short-term plant under construction (Well No. 3) of $117,002 along with the corresponding contributions in aid of construction of $117,002 and working capital of $9,088 (non-asset component of rate base) are removed, the adjusted 1992 year-end asset base is $102,596. When the 1992 year-end assets are adjusted for the replacement plant of $179,377 from Order No. 26081, the adjusted rate base for year end 1992 becomes $281,973. In Case No. WSM-W-93-2, Order No. 25445, Warm Springs Mesa was also allowed to collect $10,648 a year in depreciation expense. In Order No. 25445 an additional $6,000 in deprecation expense was allowed on the replacement assets in 1995. If 1993, 1994 and 1995 depreciation expense is added to the accumulated depreciation account the rate base at the end of 1995 would be reduced by $37,944 to $244,029. Please reconcile the $96,008 difference between Staff's 1995 estimated year-end rate base adjusted for the replacement plant of $244,029 (see Attachment A) and the Company's rate base of $340,944. Include any costs of rebuilding other wells between January 1993 and December 1995 in the reconciliation.
REQUEST NO. 2: Please provide an itemized list of assets including the office assets included in rate base that are being purchased. This list should be in sufficient detail to allow an inventory to be conducted.
REQUEST NO. 3: Please provide Staff with the details of how United Water Idaho Inc. intends to account for the cost of hooking up new customers absent a hook-up fee. Please explain why the existing hook-up fee should not be charged?
DATED at Boise, Idaho, this day of April 1996.
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Scott Woodbury
Deputy Attorney General
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