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MINUTES OF DECISION MEETING
January 6, 1998 - 1:30 p.m.
In attendance were Commissioners Dennis Hansen, Ralph Nelson and Marsha H. Smith and staff members Wayne Hart, Joe Cusick, Weldon Stutzman, Randy Lobb, Ron Law, David Scott, Tonya Clark  and Myrna Walters. Also in attendance was Ron Lightfoot of U S West.
Commission President Dennis Hansen called the meeting to order.
Items from the Published January 6, 1997 Agenda were acted upon as follows.
1. Minutes of December 23, 1997 and December 30, 1997 Decision Meetings.
Commissioner Nelson made a motion to approve the minutes; motion carried unanimously.
CONSENT AGENDA
Items 2, 3 and 4 were on the Consent Agenda.
Commissioner Hansen asked if the Commissioners had comments or questions on any of the items?
Commissioner Smith said she agreed on Item 3 - U S West’s Revision to Construction Charge Tariff and Elimination of Zone Connection Charges, that it should be suspended because these are issues that should be seriously considered, but the Commission did a lot of work on the Idaho Power line extension tariffs and didn’t think it was necessary to replow old ground.
Commissioner Hansen said perhaps it should go out on modified procedure.
Commissioner Smith suggested having staff and the company work together to come up with something to put out on modified procedure.
Commissioner Nelson asked Wayne if staff and the company had had discussions on this?
Wayne said they have and it was his understanding that the company was going to talk to Denver and they didn’t want to come up with anything Idaho specific necessarily, and it was hard to get back together with the holidays, etc.
Commissioner Nelson said he agreed the filing should be suspended and staff and the company should work together. Made a motion to adopt the recommendations on the Consent Agenda.
Motion carried unanimously.
Meeting was then adjourned.
Dated at Boise, Idaho, this 6th day of January, 1998.
Myrna J. Walters, Commission Secretary