modproc_app.doc

BEFORE THE IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF ASPEN CREEK WATER CO., INC. FOR A CERTIFICATE OF PUBLIC CONVENIENCE AND NECESSITY. )
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NOTICE OF APPLICATION

NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE

NOTICE OF COMMENT/PROTEST DEADLINE

YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that on March 27, 2002, Aspen Creek Water Co., Inc. (Aspen Creek; Company) filed an Application with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission (Commission) requesting a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to serve a small water system located in the Fish Haven, Idaho area in Bear Lake County. Reference Idaho Code § 61-526; IDAPA 31.01.01.111. The Company presently has 29 part-time customers (summer homes) in a subdivision that has 65 lots. Additional development, the Company states, could grow the water system to more than 200 customers.
Aspen Creek’s present water rates are $25 per month for the first 15,000 gallons and $1 per 1,000 gallons after that. No one, the Company states, presently uses more than the monthly minimum. The Company reports that there is only one customer that waters any grass at all. All customers are required to have water meters.
Included with the Company’s Application is a balance sheet and income statement. Also included is a detailed legal description of the area along with a subdivision plat map, and a piping map. The piping map is “as built” except for a booster station that is not needed at this time and a well house that is not entirely complete yet.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Commission has reviewed the filings of record in Case No. GNR-W-02-02. The Commission has preliminarily determined that the public interest regarding the issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity to Aspen Creek Water Co, Inc. may not require a hearing to consider the issues presented and that issues raised by the Application 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 Commission may not hold a hearing in this proceeding unless it receives written protests or comments opposing the use of Modified Procedure and stating why Modified Procedure should not be used. Reference IDAPA 31.01.01.203.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the deadline for filing written comments or protests with respect to the Application and the Commission’s use of Modified Procedure in Case No. GNR-W-02-02 is Thursday, August 01, 2002. Persons desiring a hearing must specifically request a hearing in their written protests or comments.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that if no written comments or protests are received within the deadline, the Commission will consider the matter on its merits and enter its Order 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 its Order based on the written positions before it. Reference IDAPA 31.01.01.204.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that written comments concerning Case No. GNR-W-02-02 should be mailed to the Commission and to Aspen Creek Water at the addresses reflected below.

COMMISSION SECRETARY
IDAHO PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION
PO BOX 83720
BOISE, IDAHO 83720-0074

Street Address for Express Mail:

472 W WASHINGTON ST
BOISE, ID 83702-5983 GARY C. McKEE
ASPEN CREEK WATER CO, INC.
10 SOUTH BEAR LAKE BLVD.
GARDEN CITY, UT 84038

ASPEN CREEK WATER CO, INC.
c/o 641 WEST McKEE RD
INKOM, IDAHO 83245
All comments should contain the case caption and case number shown on the first page of this document.
Persons desiring to submit comments via e-mail may do so by accessing the Commission’s homepage located at www.puc.state.id.us under the heading “Contact Us.” Once at the “Contact Us” page, select “Email Case Comments or Questions,” fill in the case number as it appears on the front of this document, and enter your comments.
YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that the Application in Case No. GNR-W-02-02 can be reviewed during regular business hours at the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, 472 West Washington Street, Boise.
DATED at Boise, Idaho this _________ day of June 2002.

Jean D. Jewell
Commission Secretary

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NOTICE OF APPLICATION
NOTICE OF MODIFIED PROCEDURE
NOTICE OF COMMENT/PROTEST
DEADLINE 1

Office of the Secretary
Service Date
June 4, 2002