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South Dakota Public Utilities Commission Meeting
Tuesday, February 28, 2006, at 1:30 P.M.
State Capitol Building, Room 468
Pierre, South Dakota
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ADDENDUM TO THE AGENDA OF COMMISSION MEETING
Electricity
On July 21, 2005, the Commission received an Application for a Construction Permit for an Energy Conversion Facility from Otter Tail Power Company on behalf of the Project co owners; Central Minnesota Municipal Power Agency; Great River Energy; Heartland Consumers Power District; Montana Dakota Utilities Co., a Division of MDU Resources Group, Inc.; Otter Tail Corporation d/b/a Otter Tail Power Company; Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency; and Western Minnesota Municipal Power Agency. The proposed Energy Conversion Facility is a nominal 600 MW coal fired electric generating facility and associated facilities, which the Project co owners have named Big Stone II, to be located on an industrial site adjacent to the existing Big Stone Plant unit I in Grant County, South Dakota. The intervention deadline is 60 days after the date the application is filed pursuant to ARSD 20:10:22:40. On August 25, 2005, Clean Water Action filed a Petition to Intervene. The South Dakota Chapter Sierra Club and Union of Concerned Scientists filed Applications for Party Status on September 16, 2005. On September 19, 2005, Applications for Party Status were filed by Mary Jo Stueve, Minnesotans for an Energy Efficient Economy, Izaak Walton League of America - Midwest Office, and the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy. Party Status was granted to all who filed at the September 27, 2005, commission meeting. Staff requests that the Commission authorize, pursuant to SDCL 49-1-8.2, the execution by the Executive Director of a contract for consulting services to the Staff. On February 16, 2006, Clean Water Action filed a letter requesting withdrawal of its intervention in Docket EL05-022.
TODAY, shall the Commission Authorize the Executive Director to Enter into Consulting Contracts? AND, shall the Commission Grant Clean Water Action's Request for Withdrawal from Docket EL05-022?
Telecommunications
As a result of an annexation to the City of Brookings, the Commission received a filing from the City of Brookings Telephone d/b/a Swiftel Communications (Swiftel) for approval to include property annexed in its exclusive franchise territory. The service territory change includes the South 1/2 of the Northeast 1/4 Section 1, T109N, R50W excluding the platted areas thereof, the East 300 feet and the North 30 feet, East 1,832 feet, West 2,165 feet in the County of Brookings, South Dakota. The City of Brookings has also annexed the following property which will be retained by Interstate Telecommunications Cooperative, Inc.; Lot 1, Clark Addition and Outlot A excluding the North 444 feet thereof, all in the Southwest 1/4 of Section 10, T110N, R49W; Outlot B in the Northwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20, T110N, R49W; and Outlot B and E in the Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 20, T110N, R49W all in the County of Brookings, South Dakota.
Swiftel is making the request pursuant to SDCL 49-31-3 and 49-31-69 and upon previous South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (Commission) action in Docket #F-3555 and in the resulting decision by the Commission on January 2, 1987. Swiftel has also requested that the Commission waive rules ARSD 20:10:32:03(1-7); (9-21); and (23).
TODAY, shall the Commission Waive ARSD 20:10:32:03(1 – 7), (9 – 12), and (23), and Approve the Revised Service Territory as a Result of Annexation?
On February 2, 2006, Broadband Dynamics, L.L.C filed an application seeking a Certificate of Authority to resell interexchange services including 1+ and 101XXXXX outbound dialing, 800/888 Toll-Free inbound dialing, directory assistance, data services and postpaid calling card services throughout South Dakota.
TODAY, shall the Commission Grant the Certificate of Authority to Broadband Dynamics, L.L.C.?
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Heather K. Forney
Deputy Executive Director
heather.forney@state.sd.us
February 23, 2006
