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BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR APPROVAL OF MODIFICATIONS TO THE COMPANY’S LOW INCOME WEATHERIZATION PROGRAM. )
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) CASE NO. IPC-E-00-8

NOTICE OF APPLICATION

NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE

NOTICE OF COMMENT/ PROTEST DEADLINE

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on May 12, 2000, Idaho Power Company (Idaho Power; Company) filed an Application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (Commission) requesting approval of proposed modifications to its Low-Income Weatherization Program.
Idaho Power Company’s Low-Income Weatherization Program was approved by the Commission in 1989 in Case No. IPC-E-89-6, Order Nos. 22413 and 22478. Since 1989, the program has changed with respect to the participating organizations, the funding level, and the method of recovering program expenditures. The state program is administered by the State of Idaho, Department of Health & Welfare, Division of Welfare, Bureau of Policy, and is operated by six local not-for-profit agencies that are designated subgrantees. The five agencies that the Company presently contracts with in its state of Idaho service territory are El Ada, Inc., South Central Community Action Agency, Canyon County Organization on Aging, Eastern Idaho Special Services Agency, and the SouthEastern Idaho Community Action Agency.
Current information concerning the operation of the Idaho Low-Income Weatherization Program is contained in the 2000 Idaho Weatherization State Plan, which is attached to the Company’s Application. As an adjunct of that plan, Idaho Power has been approached and has agreed to remove restrictions that are contained in the original Low-Income Weatherization Program. The Company therefore requests approval of the following modifications to its Low-Income Weatherization Program.
Removing the requirement that eligible dwellings, additional eligible dwellings, and eligible buildings be primarily heated by electricity.
Eliminating the disallowance of plastic window coverings and of repair/replacement of fossil fuel heating.
Adopting the state’s average cost limitation for program funds of not more than 75% support labor/overhead and not less than 25% material investment average per eligible dwelling installed by the agency.
Adopting the allowance of expenditures for health and safety measures of up to 10% of the average cost per dwelling.
Increasing the required savings-to-investment ratio (SIR) for qualifying energy conservation measures from 1.0 to 1.1 or greater.

The Company requests that its Application be processed under Modified Procedure, i.e., by written submission rather than by hearing. Staff concurs with the Company’s proposed procedure.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Commission has preliminarily found that the public interest in this matter may not require a hearing to consider the issues presented and that the issues raised by the Company’s filing may be processed under Modified Procedure, i.e., by written submission rather than by hearing. Reference Commission Rules of Procedure, IDAPA 31.01.01.201-204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the deadline for filing written comments or protests with respect to Idaho Power’s Application and the Commission’s use of Modified Procedure in Case No. IPC-E-00-08 is Friday, June 16, 2000.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if no written comments or protests are received within the deadline, the Commission may consider the matter on its merits and may enter its Order without a formal hearing. If comments or protests are filed within the deadline, the Commission will consider them and in its discretion may set the matter for hearing or may decide the matter and issue its Order on the basis of the written positions before it. Reference IDAPA 31.01.01.204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that written comments concerning Case No. IPCE-00-8 should be mailed to the Commission and the Company at the addresses reflected below.

COMMISSION SECRETARY
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074

Street Address for Express Mail:

472 W WASHINGTON ST
BOISE, ID 83702-5983 LARRY D RIPLEY
SENIOR ATTORNEY
IDAHO POWER COMPANY
PO BOX 70
BOISE ID 83707-0070
All comments should contain the case caption and case number shown on the first page of this document.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Company’s Application in Case No. IPC-E-00-08 may be viewed during regular business hours at the offices of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, 472 West Washington, Boise, Idaho and at the general business office of Idaho Power Company, 1221 West Idaho Street, Boise, Idaho (telephone [phone]).
DATED at Boise, Idaho this day of May 2000.

DENNIS HANSEN, PRESIDENT

MARSHA H. SMITH, COMMISSIONER

PAUL KJELLANDER, COMMISSIONER

ATTEST:

Myrna J. Walters
Commission Secretary

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE
NOTICE OF COMMENT/PROTEST DEADLINE 1

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
May 31, 2000