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Home My WebLink About20180824Errata.pdfORIGINAT Norman M. Semanko, ISB #4761 PARSONS BEHLE & LATIMER 800 West Main Street, Suite 1300 Boise, Idaho 83702 Telephone: 208.562.4900 Facsimile: 208.562.4901 NSemanko@parsonsbehle. com ecf@parsonsbehle.com TN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT APPLICATION OF HYDRO ONE LIMITED AND AVISTA CORPORATION FOR APPROVAL OF MERGER AGREEMENT REC E IVED 7il18 fillCI 2l+ PH 2: 56 t*-ON Attorneys for Intervenor Avista Customer Group BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION CASE NOS. AVU-E-17.09 AVU-G-17-05 ERRATA I Avista Customer Group filed its Response to Report on Hydro One Management Changes 2 and Motionfor Scheduling Conference ("Response ") in this matter on August 23,2018. Due to an 3 inadvertent error, the title of Section II of the Response was mistakenly titled "lntroduction," 4 instead of "Response to Report and Motion." An updated copy of page 2 of the Response, with the 5 corrected title ofSection II is attached. DATED this 24th day of August, 2018. PAR S BEHLE & LATIMER By: Norman M. S ERRATA - Page I I hereby certify that a true and correct copy of the foregoing document was served on the following on this 24th day of August, 201 8 by the following method: X U.S. First Class Mail, Postage PrepaidLany A. Crowley, Director The Energy Strtegies, Inc. 5549 S Cliff s Edge Ave. Boise, ID 83716 crowleyla@aol.com Peter J. Richardson Richardson, Adams, PLLC 515 N 27th Street Boise, ID 83702 peter@richardsonadams. com Benjamin J. Otto Idaho Conservation League 710 N. 6th Street Boise, ID 83702 botto@idahoconservation. org Elizabeth Thomas, Partner Kari Vander Stoep, Partner K&L Gates,LLP 925 4th Ave., Ste. 2900 Seattle, WA 98104-1158 liz.thomas@kl gates.com kari. vanderstoep@tlgatqs. com dirk. middents@kl gates. com Ronald Williams Williams Bradbury, PC P.O. Box 388 Boise, ID 83701 ron@,wi I I iamsbradbury. com U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express E Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S. First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid trX U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S.First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid E U.S. Certifled Mail, Postage Prepaid I Federal Express E Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF Xtr U.S. First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery f, Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S. First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid E U.S. Cerlified Mail, Postage Prepaid ! Federal Express I Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF ERRATA -Page2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE David J. Meyer, Esq. Vice President and Chief Counsel of Regulatory and Government Affairs Avista Corporation 1411 East Mission Ave. Spokane, WA99220 david.meyer@avistacorp. com avistadockets@avistacorp.com Linda M. Gervais Senior Manager, Regulatory Policy Regulatory Affairs P.O. Box 3727 MSC-27 Spokane, WA99220 Linda. eervais@avistacorp.com Brandon Karpen Deputy Attorney General Idaho Public Utilities Commission 472 W Washington Boise, ID 83702 Brandon. karpen@,puc. idaho. eov Washington and Idaho Northern District Counsel ofLabors Danielle Franco-Malone Schwerin Campbell Barnard Iglitzin Lavitt LLP 18 W Mercer Street, Ste. 400 Seattle, WA 98119-3971 franco@workerlaw.com Dr. Don Reading 6070 Hill Road Boise, ID 83703 dreading@mindspring. com Brady M. Purdy Attorney at Law 2019 N. 17th Street Boise, ID 83702 bmpurdy@hotmail.com X U.S.First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid trX U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U S.First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid E U.S.Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid ! Federal Express I Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid U.S. Certifled Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF U.S. First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S.First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid E U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid ! Federal Express I Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X U.S, First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express Hand Delivery Electronic Mail or CM/ECF AVISTA CUSTOMER GROUP'S RESPONSE TO REPORT ON HYDRO ONE MANAGEMENT CHANGBS AND MOTION FOR SCHEDULING CONFERENCE _ PagC 3 Xtr trX Garrick L Baxter ldaho Department of Water Resources 3228. Front Street P.O. Box 83720 Boise, ID 83720-0098 Garrick.baxter@idwr. idaho. gov deanj miller@cableone. net carol.hauen@clearwaterpaper. com marv@malewallen.com j ohn._i acobs@clearwaterpaper. com david.wren@ clearwaterpaper. com nathan. smith@c learwaterpaper. com Patrick. ehrbar@avistacorp. com j scarlett@hydroone.com X U.S. First Class Mail, Postage Prepaid U.S. Certified Mail, Postage Prepaid Federal Express ! Hand Delivery f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF fi Electronic Mail or CM/ECF f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF X Electronic Mail or CM/ECF f, Electronic Mail or CM/ECF f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF fi Electronic Mail or CM/ECF f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF f Electronic Mail or CM/ECF N rman M. S AVISTA CUSTOMER GROUP'S RESPONSE TO REPORT ON HYDRO ONE MANAGEMENT CHANGBS AND MOTION FOR SCHEDULING CONFERENCE _ Page 4 1 Applicants filed their Report on Hydro One Management Changes on August 15, along with a 2 Motionfor Scheduling Conference ("Report and Motion"). Hydro One also held a teleconference 3 briefing on August 14. A copy of the transcript from the briefing is attached hereto as Exhibit A 4 ("BriefingTranscript"). 5 II. RESPONSE TO REPORT AND MOTION 6 The status report provides that Hydro One announced the 10 members of its new board on 7 August14,2018. Report and Motion at 2. This was as expected from the information previously 8 provided to the Commission. See ldaho Letter at2 (July 18,2018) ("Hydro One has committed to 9 completing the transition process to a new board of directors by August I 5, 201 8"). l0 It is clear that the new board had not been briefed, let alone provided any direction, on the I I Avista merger. In response to a question on this topic ("[H]ave you had a chance to socialize the 12 Avista acquisition with the new board? In other words how do we know that this new board is in 13 alignment with [the] Avista acquisition?"), Paul Dobson, Hydro One's Chief Financial Officer and 14 acting CEO responded at the company's August 14 briefing: "So we have not sat down with the l5 new board and gone through the Avista transaction ." Briefing Transuipt. 16 The status report also provides that Hydro One has not selected a new CEO to replace Mayo 17 Schmidt who retired on July 11,2018, the same day that Hydro One's Chief Financial Officer, Paul 18 Dobson, was named Hydro One's acting CEO. Report and Motion at2-3. The information about 19 the interim CEO was already known to the Commission at the time that it issued its Order on 20 July 20. See ldaho Letter at 2 (July 18,2018) ("Paul Dobson, Hydro One's chief financial officer, 2l has been appointed as acting chief executive officer until such time as the replacement board of 22 directors, once constituted, can appoint a new chief executive officer"). AVISTA CUSTOMER GROUP'S RESPONSE TO REPORT ON HYDRO ONE MANAGEMENT CHANGES AND MOTION FOR SCHEDULING CONFERENCE - PAgC 2