20210305Decision Memo.pdf

DECISION MEMORANDUM 1
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DECISION MEMORANDUM

TO: COMMISSIONER KJELLANDER
COMMISSIONER RAPER
COMMISSIONER ANDERSON
COMMISSION SECRETARY
COMMISSION STAFF
LEGAL

FROM: DAYN HARDIE
DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL

DATE: MARCH 5, 2021

SUBJECT: IN THE MATTER OF INTERMOUNTAIN GAS COMPANY’S
APPLICATION FOR APPROVAL TO CHANGE DEPRECIATION AND
AMORTIZATION RATES; CASE NO. INT-G-21-01.

On January 12, 2021, Intermountain Gas Company (“Company”) applied to the
Commission requesting authority to decrease its depreciation and amortization rates from a
combined 2.97% (when weighted by December 31, 2019 assets) to 2.55%. The effect of the
proposal would be to decrease the Company’s annual depreciation and amortization expense by
$2,858,965. The Company requests its Application be processed by Modified Procedure and that
rates be effective retroactively to January 1, 2021.
On February 8, 2021, the Commission issued a Notice of Intervention Deadline and
Notice of Application. Order No. 34914. The intervention period passed, and no one intervened.
Staff conferred with the Company about scheduling. Staff and the Company agreed
that the Application should be processed via modified procedure with a June 8, 2021 comment
deadline and a June 22, 2021 reply deadline.
STAFF RECOMMENDATION
Staff recommends that the Commission issue a Notice of Modified Procedure
establishing a June 8, 2021 public comment deadline and a June 22, 2021 Company reply deadline.
COMMISSION DECISION
Does the Commission wish to issue a Notice of Modified Procedure establishing a June
8, 2021 public comment deadline and a June 22, 2021 Company reply deadline?

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Dayn Hardie
Deputy Attorney General