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DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO: COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSIONER CHATBURN
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL
FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL
DATE: APRIL 28, 2022
SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF AVISTA CORPORATION’S PROPOSED TARIFF
SCHEDULE 195—OPTIONAL RENEWABLE NATURAL GAS; CASE NO.
AVU-G-22-01.
On March 1, 2022, Avista Corporation dba Avista Utilities (“Company”) applied for
authority to implement a new tariff Schedule 195—Optional Renewable Gas (“Schedule 195”).
The Company proposes to implement a voluntary Renewable Natural Gas (“RNG”) program that
provides customers an opportunity to purchase RNG as part of their regular monthly service. The
Company requests a May 1, 2022, effective date.
On March 25, 2022, the Commission issued a Notice of Application, Notice of
Intervention Deadline, and suspended the Company’s proposed effective date. Order No. 35355.
No one intervened in the case.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
As directed in Order No. 35355, Staff conferred with the Company about the procedural
schedule and recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a
June 23, 2022 public comment deadline and a July 7, 2022 Company reply deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a June
23, 2022 public comment deadline and a July 7, 2022 Company reply deadline?
_____________________________
Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General
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