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Address: Voice: (651) 361-7900
P.O. Box 64620 TTY: (651) 361-7878
November 10, 2009
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V.
Bruce Stenswick STREET
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RE: ITMO the Application for a Route Permit for
the Hiawatha Transmission Project; PUC No. E-002/TL-09-38; OAH No.
15-2500-20599-2
Dear Mr. Stenswick,
Judge Heydinger has received your letter
requesting to intervene in the Route Permit for the Hiawatha Transmission Line
Project. In order to intervene in a
proceeding of this type, you must file a Petition to Intervene that meets the
requirements set forth in Minn. R. 1405.0900.
A copy of that rule is attached for your reference. The critical showing for intervention is:
how the petitioner's legal rights, duties, or
privileges may be determined or affected by the proceedings, how those rights,
duties, and privileges are not otherwise represented, and shall set forth the
grounds and purposes for which intervention is sought and shall indicate
petitioner's statutory or legal right to intervene, if one should exist.
Petitions for intervention can be
objected to by other parties.
Procedurally, a copy of your petition must also be served on all the
existing parties as well as filed with the Administrative Law Judge. At the present time, those parties are: the
Applicants,
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I have enclosed a copy of the service
list, current as of the date of this letter.
The service list for a proceeding is generated by the eFiling system in
Public Utilities Commission matters located on the web at:
https://www.edockets.state.mn.us/EFiling/home.jsp
To use this system, registration is
required. Persons admitted as parties
must use this system for obtaining the current service list and may use the
system for electronically serving parties.
For those parties who require paper service (as noted on the service
list), the filing to be served must be either mailed or delivered. If the eService system is not used for
electronic service, the filing must be served by email on those designated for
electronic filing. Further information
about service using the eService system is available at:
http://www.commerce.state.mn.us/eDocFile/eFilingHelp.html
In addition to the rule standards for
granting intervention, significant participation is expected from intervenors
in all aspects of the proceeding, including attendance at prehearing
conferences and the evidentiary hearing, motions, and posthearing
briefing. Enclosed is a copy of the
Prehearing Order issued on August 11, 2009.
If you are granted intervention you will be bound by the terms of the
Order.
Please be aware that it is not necessary
to intervene to participate in this proceeding.
Public hearings will be held in February 2010. At that time, members of the public may
submit comments, ask questions or submit questions to the judge that they would
like to ask of the parties’ witnesses.
Written comments may also be submitted.
To follow the filings as they happen, any person may “subscribe” to this
docket through the eDockets system.
Subscribers to the 09-38 docket receive an email notice linked to each
document that is filed in this matter.
Following the emailed link allows the subscriber to read all the public
documents filed in this docket, including the prefiled testimony of the
parties’ witnesses. The instructions on
how to subscribe to a docket also accompany this letter.
If you have any additional questions
about the process for participation in this process, either through
intervention or by way of public comments, please contact me by telephone or by
email at Michael.Lewis@state.mn.us.
Sincerely,
s/Michael W. Lewis
MICHAEL
W. LEWIS
Staff
Attorney
Telephone:
651-361-7840
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