BEFORE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI

 

 

In The Matter Of The Application Of Transource         )

Missouri, LLC For A Certificate Of Convenience          )

And Necessity Authorizing It To Construct,                 )         File No. EA-2013-0098

Finance, Own, Operate, And Maintain The                 )

Iatan-Nashua And Sibley-Nebraska City                     )

Electric Transmission Projects                                  )

 

 

NOTICE OF CONTESTED CASE

 

Issue Date:  March 26, 2013                                            Effective Date:  March 26, 2013

 

          The Missouri Public Service Commission is issuing notice of a contested case. The applications[1] are subject to opposition, and their allegations suggest a property right subject to protection under the due process of law, which includes an opportunity for hearing in a meaningful manner and time.[2] A meaningful manner and time, for the applications, means an evidentiary hearing before the decision.[3] The necessity of a pre‑decision, evidentiary hearing makes this action a “contested case.”[4]

 

 

 

The Commission’s discovery regulations are at 4 CSR 240-2.090.[5] This notice requires no written answer from any party. Notice of hearing has issued already.[6]

                                                                                 BY THE COMMISSION

 

 

 

Shelley Brueggemann

Acting 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 26th day of March, 2013.

 


[1] This file is consolidated with File No. EO-2012-0367, In The Matter Of The Application Of Kansas City Power & Light Company And KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations Company Regarding Arrangements For Approval To Transfer Certain Transmission Property To Transource Missouri, L.L.C. And For Other Related Determinations.

[2] Mathews v. Eldridge, 424 U.S. 319, 332 (1976).

[3] Jamison v. Dept. of Soc. Servs, 218 S.W.3d 399, 408-09 (Mo. banc 2007).

[4] Section 536.010(4), RSMo Supp. 2012.

[5] This language is required under Section 536.063(2)(f), RSMo Supp. 2012. Each party is represented by counsel, experienced in Commission practice, who have expressly proposed procedural schedules including discovery. This later recital is a mere formality and prejudices no party.

[6] Orders dated November 7, 2012, and December 17, 2012.