BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI

 

 

Monty Scroggins,                                            )

                                                                      )

                    Complainant,                     )

                                                            )

          vs.                                                        )                   File No. EC-2015-0155

                                                  )

KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations                )

                                                                      )

                    Respondent.                     )

 

 

NOTICE OF RECOMMENDED ORDER

 

Issue Date:  August 24, 2015

 

          The regulatory law judge is issuing a recommended order. The recommended report and order is subject to comments from any affected party filed within ten days of this recommendation’s issuance under 4 CSR 240-2.070(15)(H).

 

                                                            BY THE COMMISSION

 

 

 

 

                                                            Morris L. Woodruff

                                                            Secretary

 

 

 

Daniel Jordan, Senior Regulatory Law Judge,

by delegation of authority pursuant

to Section 386.240, RSMo 2000.

 

Dated at Jefferson City, Missouri,

on this 24th day of August 2015.

                                                                     


                     STATE OF MISSOURI

          PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

          At a session of the Public Service Commission held at its office in Jefferson City on the [] day of [].

 

Monty Scroggins,                                            )

                                                                      )

                    Complainant,                     )

                                                            )

          vs.                                                        )                   File No. EC-2015-0155

                                                  )

KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations                )

                                                                      )

                    Respondent.                     )

 

ORDER DISMISSING CASE WITHOUT PREJUDICE

 

Issue Date: ___                                                                         Effective Date: ___

 

          The Missouri Public Service Commission is dismissing the case without prejudice. “Without prejudice” means that the Commission is not deciding who wins or loses on the complaint. It also means that Mr. Scroggins can file the complaint again if he still wants the Commission to decide his complaint.

          Mr. Scroggins’ complaint[1] alleges that KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations’ (“GMO”) violated the law governing solar rebates.[2] The Commission issued an order setting a procedural schedule[3] that included the filing of prepared testimony as the parties requested.[4] GMO filed a motion to dismiss the complaint.[5] As of the date of this order,[6] the Commission received no response from Mr. Scroggins.

          The motion cites Commission regulations that allow dismissal when a party does not follow an order:

A party may be dismissed from a case for failure to comply with any order issued by the commission [;[7]]

 

and when nothing happens in the case for 90 days:

Cases may be dismissed for lack of prosecution if no action has occurred in the case for ninety (90) days and no party has filed a pleading requesting a continuance beyond that time. [[8]]

 

Such is the case here. Mr. Scroggins did not make the filing required in the procedural schedule to which he agreed, and no other action occurred in this case for 90 days. Therefore, the Commission will dismiss the complaint without prejudice.

           THE COMMISSION ORDERS THAT:

1.          The KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company Motion to Dismiss is granted and the complaint is dismissed without prejudice.

2.          This file may close on ___ .

3.          This order shall be effective on ___ .

                                                            BY THE COMMISSION

 

 

 

 

                                                            Morris L. Woodruff

                                                            Secretary

 

___ , CC., concur.

 

Jordan, Senior Regulatory Law Judge



[1] Electronic Filing Information System (“EFIS”) No. 1 (August 21, 2015) Formal Complaint.

[2] GMO Tariff Sheet No. R-62.19.

[3] EFIS No. 10 (April 10, 2015) Order Setting Procedural Schedule.

[4] EFIS No. 9 (April 10, 2015) Proposed Procedural Schedule.

[5] EFIS No. 14 (July 31, 2015) KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company Motion to Dismiss.

[6] Which is beyond the 10 days provided by Commission regulation 4 CSR 240-2.080(15).

[7] 4 CSR 240-2.116(3).

[8] 4 CSR 240-2.116(2).