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PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION MEETING
Tuesday, August 6, 1996; 3:00 p.m.
State Capitol Building, Room 412
Pierre, South Dakota
NOTE: If you wish to join this meeting by conference call, please contact the Commission before 2:00 p.m., Tuesday, August 6, 1996, at 605-773-3201 (Consumer Hotline: 1-800-332-1782).
AGENDA OF THE AD HOC COMMISSION MEETING
Telecommunications
1. TC96-125 IN THE MATTER OF THE JOINT APPLICATION OF U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC., GOLDEN WEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE, HANSON COMMUNICATIONS, INC., AND BALTIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COOPERATIVE REGARDING THE SALE OF EIGHT TELEPHONE EXCHANGES BY U S WEST COMMUNICATIONS, INC. (Staff Analyst: Dave Jacobson. Staff Attorney: Karen Cremer.)
On July 15, 1996, the Commission received a joint application from U S WEST Communications, Inc. (USWC), Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative (Golden West) and its subsidiary Vivian Telephone Company, Hanson Communications, Inc. (Hanson) and its subsidiary Fort Randall Telephone Company, and Baltic Telecommunications Cooperative (Baltic) and its subsidiary East Plains Telecommunications, Inc., collectively referred to as Applicants. The Applicants jointly apply to the Commission for approval of the sale of USWC's Gregory, Clearfield, Witten and Lesterville exchanges to Golden West; USWC'S Centerville, Viborg and Tabor exchanges to Hanson; and USWC'S Hudson exchange to Baltic. The eight exchanges are the same exchanges the Commission approved for sale to Dakota Cooperative Telecommunications on July 31, 1995, in Docket No. TC94-122. Golden West, Hanson and Baltic are Commission approved buyers of other USWC exchanges in South Dakota. The Applicants request that the Commission judicially notice the relevant portions of the record with reference to Golden West and Hanson in TC94-122, and the record in TC96-010 with regard to Baltic. The Applicants further request that the Commission expeditiously process this application and believes the public and evidentiary hearings could be simultaneously conducted in Pierre as soon as reasonably possible. An Intervention deadline of August 2, 1996, was established by the Commission and on July 30, 1996, Dakota Cooperative Telecommunications, Inc. (DCT) timely filed for intervention.
TODAY, shall the Commission grant intervention status to DCT? Shall the Commission establish a procedural schedule for this docket?
William Bullard Jr.
Executive Director
Monday, August 5, 1996
