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(text box: 1)BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
IN THE MATTER OF PACIFICORP DBA UTAH POWER & LIGHT COMPANY’S 1997 ELECTRIC RESOURCE AND MARKET-PLANNING PROGRAM (RAMPP-5).
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CASE NO. UPL-E-97-5
NOTICE OF FILING
NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE
NOTICE OF COMMENT/ PROTEST DEADLINE
YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that 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.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Commission has reviewed the filings of record in Case No. UPL-E-97-5.  The Commission has preliminarily determined that the public interest may not require a hearing to consider the issues presented and that the issues raised may be processed under Modified Procedure, i.e., by written submission rather than by hearing.  Reference Commission Rules of Procedure, IDAPA 31.01.01.201-204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the deadline for filing written comments or protests with respect to Utah Power’s 1997 electric Resource and Market Planning Program (RAMPP-5) and the use of Modified Procedure in Case No. UPL-E-97-5 is Friday, February 13, 1998.  Interested parties in this case may avail themselves of discovery rights (production requests or written interrogatories) pursuant to Commission Rules of Procedure, IDAPA 31.01.01.221 et seq.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if no written protests or comments are received within the deadline, the Commission will consider the matter on its merits and may enter an Order and/or conclude the case without a formal hearing.  If comments or protests are filed within the deadline, the Commission will consider them and in its discretion may set the matter for hearing or may decide the matter and issue an Order and/or conclude the case on the basis of the written positions before it.  Reference IDAPA 31.01.01.204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that written comments concerning Case No. UPL-E-97-5 should be mailed to the Commission and the Company at the addresses reflected below:
COMMISSION SECRETARYBRIAN HEDMAN, MANAGER
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSIONDSM POLICY DEVELOPMENT
PO BOX 83720PACIFICORP DBA UP&L
BOISE, IDAHO  83720-0074825 NE MULTNOMAH
PORTLAND, OR 97232
Street Address for Express Mail:
472 W WASHINGTON ST
BOISE, IDAHO  83702-5983
All comments should contain the case caption and case number shown on the first page of this document.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Company’s RAMPP-5 may be viewed during regular business hours at the offices of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, 472 West Washington Street, Boise, Idaho and at the Idaho offices of Utah Power & Light Company.
DATED at Boise, Idaho this day of January 1998.
                                                                                                                                      DENNIS S. HANSEN, PRESIDENT
                                                                                           RALPH NELSON, COMMISSIONER

MARSHA H. SMITH, COMMISSIONER
ATTEST:

Myrna J. Walters
Commission Secretary
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