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Home My WebLink About20040630Objection to 1st Request of Staff for Reconsideration.pdfBARTON L. KLINE ISB #1526 MONICA B. MOEN ISB #5734 Idaho Power Company P.. O. Box 70 Boise , Idaho 83707 Telephone: (208) 388-2682 FAX Telephone: (208) 388-6936 :ECEiVEO JLED t:::J r~' ~ !"-=; "'nf1f t'ft Ij .. t.J!;,ii;,.H!Y,.-4")t::.,.v. "".....,. v Kif IJ" (.(). . ,. '. ' ' ty' ~j) _ Ur5LiL U I ILl i ItS COt/it'iISSlON Attorney for Idaho Power Company Street Address for Express Mail 1221 West Idaho Street Boise, Idaho 83702 BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTiliTIES COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY FOR AUTHORITY TO INCREASE ITS INTERIM AND BASE RATES AND CHARGES FORELECTRIC SERVICE. CASE NO. IPC-03- OBJECTION TO THE FIRST PRODUCTION REQUEST OF THE COMMISSION STAFF TO IDAHO POWER COMPANY RELATING TO THE COMPANY' PETITION FOR RECONSIDERATION On June 23, 2004, the Staff of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission Staff") sent a production request to Idaho Power Company ("Idaho Power" or Company ) requesting that the Company perform a study relating to one of the items Idaho Power identified in its June 15, 2004 petition for reconsideration. The Staff's production request asks the Company to complete the study and provide its response to the first production request on or before Wednesday, July 14, 2004. Idaho Power believes that this production request is premature because the Commission has not granted the Company s petition for reconsideration. In fact OBJECTION TO STAFF'S PRODUCTION REQUEST , Page the Commission has until July 13, 2004, to decide whether or not it will grant reconsideration. Idaho Power recognizes that if the Commission grants reconsideration the time period for completing the reconsideration process is compressed. As a result the Company understands why the Commission Staff has initiated this production request even though it is premature. While the Company objects to the Staff's request as being premature , and as such does not believe it is obligated to produce the requested information on or before July 14, 2004 , the Company is analyzing the request with the intent that if the Commission grants reconsideration , the Company can respond to the production request in a timely manner. Staff's first production request asks Idaho Power to perform a study that it has not previously performed. The scope of the requested study is extremely broad and would require a substantial amount of effort to complete. If the Commission grants reconsideration , Idaho Power will expeditiously meet with Staff to informally discuss the scope of the request and obtain guidance on several assumptions the Company believes will need to be made in order to be responsive to the Staff's first production request. DATED at Boise, Idaho, this 29th day of June , 2004. BARTON L. KLINE Attorney for Idaho Power Company OBJECTION TO STAFF'S PRODUCTION REQUEST, Page 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 29th day of June, 2004 , I served a true and correct copy of the within and foregoing OBJECTION TO PRODUCTION REQUEST upon the following named parties by the method indicated below, and addressed to the following: Lisa D. Nordstrom Weldon B. Stutzman Deputy Attorneys General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W. Washington Street O. Box 83720 Boise, Idaho 83720-0074 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 334-3762 Randall C. Budge Eric L. Olsen Racine , Olson , Nye , Budge & Bailey O. 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Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 388-1300 Dennis E. Peseau , Ph. Utility Resources , Inc. 1500 Liberty Street S., Suite 250 Salem , OR 97302 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (503) 370-9566 Dean J. Miller McDevitt & Miller LLP O. Box 2564 Boise , ID 83701 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 336-6912 Jeremiah Healy United Water Idaho, Inc. O. Box 190420 Boise, I D 83719-0420 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 362-7069 William M. Eddie Advocates for the West O. Box 1612 Boise, ID 83701 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 342-8286 Nancy Hirsh NW Energy Coalition 219 First Ave. South , Suite 100 Seattle, WA 98104 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (206) 621-0097 Brad M. Purdy Attorney at Law 2019 N. 17th Street Boise, I D 83702 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (208) 384-8511 Michael Karp 147 Appaloosa Lane Bellingham , W A 98229 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (360) 724-5272 CERTI FICA TE OF SERVICE , Page 2 Michael L. Kurtz, Esq. Kurt J. Boehm, Esq. Boehm, Kurtz & Lowry 36 East Seventh Street, Suite 2110 Cincinnati , OH 45202 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX (513) 421-2764 Kevin Higgins 39 Market Street, Suite 200 Salt Lake City, UT 84101 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX Thomas M. Power Economics Department, LA 407 University of Montana 32 Campus Drive Missoula, MT 59812 Hand Delivered S. Mail Overnight Mail FAX BARTON L. KLINE CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE , Page 3