20200526_dh1.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: MAY 20, 2020

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN POWER’S
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL OF A LEASE AGREEMENT
WITH EXTENET SYSTEMS INC.; PAC-E-20-05.

On May 7, 2020, PacifiCorp dba Rocky Mountain Power (“Company”) applied
to the Commission for an order approving a Lease Agreement (“Lease”) between the
Company and ExteNet Systems Inc. (“ExteNet”). The Company submitted its Application
under Idaho Code §§ 61-328 and 61-332, et. seq. The Company requested its Application
be processed under Modified Procedure.
THE APPLICATION
The Lease allows ExteNet to use Company owned streetlight poles to place
small cell wireless facility attachments throughout the State of Idaho. The lease has a term
of ten-years with automatic one-year renewals until either the Company or ExteNet
terminates it.
ExteNet will pay a per-pole application fee, processing and review fee, and an
inspection fee. ExteNet will submit applications to use individual streetlight poles to the
Company. The Company will grant or deny those applications. ExteNet estimates it will
eventually place cell facilities on 125-streetlight poles.1 Service to ExteNet will be

1 The Application states that the best way to estimate the rate of placement is to assume the
cell facilities will be placed on 12 streetlight poles per year during the ten-year term of the
Lease.
DECISION MEMORANDUM 2
provided under the Company’s Electric Service Regulation No. 4—supply of service to
allow unmetered service to small usage devices.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Idaho Code § 61-328 states that the Commission “shall conduct a public hearing
upon the application.” In order to fulfill this statutory requirement, Staff recommends the
Commission issue a Notice of Application, Notice of Modified Procedure, and Notice of
Telephonic Hearing. Staff recommends setting a June 25, 2020 public comment deadline,
a July 2, 2020 Company reply deadline, and scheduling a telephonic hearing before public
comments are due.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Application, Notice of Modified
Procedure, and Notice of Telephonic Hearing setting a June 25, 2020 public comment
deadline, a July 2, 2020 Company reply deadline, and a telephonic hearing before public
comment deadline?

Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General

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