3-2500-17117-2

MPUC Docket No. P-5733,421/1C-06-49

STATE OF MINNESOTA

OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

FOR THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

 

In the Matter of the Level 3 Communications, LLC’s Petition for Arbitration Pursuant to Section 252(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as Amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the Applicable State Laws for Rates, Terms, and Conditions of Interconnection with Qwest Corporation

 

 

 

 

FIFTH PREHEARING ORDER

 

 

This matter came on before Administrative Law Judges Kathleen D. Sheehy and Steve M. Mihalchick for a prehearing telephone conference at 10:00 a.m. on January 26, 2007. 

 

Scott Porter, Esq., Level 3 Communications, Inc. (Level 3), One Technology Center, Tulsa, OK 74103; Denise Cook, Esq., 1025 Eldorado Boulevard, Broomfield, CO 80021; and Gregory Merz, Esq., Gray, Plant, Mooty, 500 IDS Center, 80 South Eighth Street, Minneapolis, MN  55402, appeared for Level 3.

 

Thomas Dethlefs, Esq., Qwest Services Corporation, 1801 California Avenue, Suite 1000, Denver, CO 80202, appeared for Qwest.

 

Linda S. Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, 445 Minnesota Street, Suite 900, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101, appeared on behalf of the Minnesota Department of Commerce (Department). 

 

          Based on the agreement of the parties and all of the files and proceedings, the Administrative Law Judges make the following:

 

ORDER

         

The procedural schedule is revised as follows:

 

 

●Technical Conference, 9:30 a.m. in the Commission Offices at 121 Seventh Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

·All parties file simultaneous Reply Testimony

 

●All parties file Prehearing Briefs, if desired.

 

 

February 6, 2007

 

 

 

February 28, 2007

 

March 16, 2007

●Level 3 and Qwest file joint witness schedule.

 

March 30, 2007

 

●Evidentiary Hearing, beginning at 9:30 a.m. in the Commission Offices at 121 Seventh Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul, Minnesota.

 

●Post-hearing briefs due.

 

●Recommended Decision due.

April 11-13, 2007

 

 

Three weeks after transcript is available

 

Four weeks after post-hearing briefs are filed

 

Dated:  January 29, 2007

 

                                                                      __s/Kathleen D. Sheehy____________

                                                                      KATHLEEN D. SHEEHY

                                                                      Administrative Law Judge

 

 

 

 

                                                                      _____s/Steve M. Mihalchick_______

                                                                      STEVE M. MIHALCHICK

                                                                      Administrative Law Judge