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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission
WEEKLY FILINGS
For the Period of June 3, 2004 through June 9, 2004
If you need a complete copy of a filing faxed, overnight expressed, or mailed to you, please contact Delaine Kolbo within five business days of this report. Phone: 605-773-3201
ELECTRIC
On June 4, 2004, Otter Tail Power Company and H-D Electric Cooperative, Inc. filed a joint request to the Public Utilities Commission for approval of an Electric Service Rights Exception. The exception would allow for H-D Electric to provide electrical service to an irrigation pivot owned by Jonathan Wollman, located in Otter Tail Power Company's service territory in Section 35, Township 115, Range 52 of Hamlin County.
Staff Analyst: Michele Farris
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Filed: 06/04/04
Intervention Deadline: 06/18/04
NATURAL GAS
Application by Montana-Dakota Utilities Co. for approval to increase rates for natural gas service in its Black Hills service territory by $1,281,417 or 2.2% based on an adjusted test year ended 12/31/2003. The company states the proposed increase for a residential customer would average about $1.96 per month. The proposed rates may potentially affect 43,100 customers in the Black Hills area of South Dakota.
Staff Analyst: Dave Jacobson
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Filed: 06/07/04
Intervention Deadline: 07/09/04
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Public Communications Services, Inc. is seeking a Certificate of Authority to provide interexchange telecommunications services in South Dakota. The Applicant intends to offer collect, prepaid and debit basis interexchange telecommunications services to inmates of prisons, jails and other confinement institutions.
Staff Analyst: Keith Senger
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 06/03/04
Intervention Deadline: 06/25/04
On June 8, 2004, the Commission received a filing for approval of a Statement of Generally Available Terms and Conditions for Interconnection, Unbundled Network Elements, Ancillary Services, and Resale of Telecommunication Services Provided by Qwest Corporation in the State of South Dakota, Fourth Revision, between Qwest Corporation and 1-800-Reconex, Inc. d/b/a USTel. According to the parties, the Agreement "is a negotiated agreement which sets forth the terms, conditions and prices under which Qwest will provide services for resale to Reconex for the provision of local exchange services." Any party wishing to comment on the Agreement may do so by filing written comments with the Commission and the parties to the Agreement no later than June 28, 2004. Parties to the Agreement may file written responses to the comments no later than twenty days after the service of the initial comments.
Staff Attorney: Rolayne Ailts Wiest
Date Filed: 06/08/04
Initial Comments Due: 06/28/04
In an Order dated December 17, 2003, the Commission granted Granite Telecommunications, LLC (Granite) authority to provide local exchange and interexchange telecommunications services in South Dakota, subject to restrictions from offering prepaid services or from accepting customer deposits and advance payments. On June 8, 2004, the Commission received a filing from Granite requesting relief from those restrictions.
Staff Analyst: Keith Senger
Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer
Date Docketed: 06/8/04
Intervention Deadline: 06/25/04
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