20221206Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSIONER CHATBURN
COMMISSIONER HAMMOND
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: RILEY NEWTON
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: DECEMBER 6, 2022

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF IDAHO POWER COMPANY’S APPLICATION FOR
REVIEW OF THE COMPANY’S CURRENT WILDFIRE MITIGATION
PLAN AND AUTHORIZATION TO DEFER NEWLY IDENTIFIED
INCREMENTAL WILDFIRE MITIGATION COSTS; CASE NO. IPC-E-22-
27.

On October 20, 2022, Idaho Power Company (“Company”) applied to the Commission for
an order authorizing the Company to defer through 2025—or until the Company’s next general
rate case becomes effective—newly identified costs associated with expanded wildfire mitigation
efforts, as detailed in the Company’s updated Wildfire Mitigation Plan. Application at 1. The
Commission issued Notice of Application and Notice of Intervention Deadline. Order No. 35591.
The intervention deadline has passed without any intervenors in this case.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure and set a
February 9, 2023, public comment deadline and a March 2, 2023, Company reply comment
deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure and set a February 9,
2023, comment deadline and a March 2, 2023, Company reply comment deadline?

Riley Newton
Deputy Attorney General
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