20120210Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER REDFORD
COMMISSIONER SMITH
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: WELDON STUTZMAN
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: FEBRUARY 3, 2012

SUBJECT: IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S APPLICATION TO CONVERT ITS FIXED
COST ADJUSTMENT FROM A PILOT SCHEDULE TO A PERMANENT
SCHEDULE, CASE NO. IPC-E-11-19

On October 29, 2011, Idaho Power Company filed an Application requesting a
Commission order to convert the Company’s current Schedule 54 – Fixed Cost Adjustment (FCA) –
from a pilot program to a permanent schedule. The current FCA is a pilot program originally
approved by the Commission in Order No. 30267, Case No. IPC-E-04-15, and is set to expire as of
December 31, 2011. On November 2, 2011, the Commission issued a Notice of Application and
Notice of Intervention Deadline. The parties held a scheduling meeting on January 27, 2012, and
now recommend the Commission process the Company’s Application by Modified Procedure. The
parties propose a comment deadline of March 1, 2012, for initial comments, and a reply comment
period through March 15, 2012.
Staff recommends the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a
comment period through March 1, 2012, and a reply comment period through March 15, 2012.
COMMISSION DECISION
Should the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a comment
period and a reply period to process the Company’s Application?

Weldon Stutzman
Deputy Attorney General

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