980217.docx

DECISION MEMORANDUM
TO:COMMISSIONER HANSEN
COMMISSIONER NELSON
COMMISSIONER SMITH
MYRNA WALTERS
TONYA CLARK
DON HOWELL
STEPHANIE MILLER
DAVE SCHUNKE
RICK STERLING
DAVID SCOTT
WORKING FILE
FROM:SCOTT WOODBURY
DATE:February 17, 1998
RE:CASE NO. UPL-E-97-5
UP&L 1997 ELECTRIC RESOURCE AND MARKET PLANNING PROGRAM (RAMPP-5; IRP)
On December 17, 1997, PacifiCorp dba Utah Power & Light Company (Utah Power; Company) filed its 1997 electric Resource and Market Planning Program (RAMPP-5; IRP) with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (Commission).  The Company’s filing complies with the Commission’s direction in Order No. 22299 issued January 27, 1989, which requires Utah Power to file a biennial resource management report (now IRP or Integrated Resource Plan) describing the status of the Company’s electric resource planning.  
On January 9, 1998, the Commission issued Notices of filing and Modified Procedure in Case No. UPL-E-97-5.  The deadline for filing written comments was February 13, 1998.  The Commission Staff was the only party to file comments (attached).  Staff concludes that the Company’s filing satisfies the Commission’s IRP requirements and recommends that the Commission acknowledge its receipt.
Commission Decision:
Does the Commission, by letter and as per standard practice, wish to acknowledge the filing of Utah Power’s 1997 electric Resource and Market Planning Program (RAMPP)?  If not, what is the Commission’s preference?

Scott Woodbury
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