1 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO 2 - - - 3 In the Matter of the : Regulation of the : 4 Purchased Gas Adjustment : Clauses Contained Within : Case No. 07-221-GA-GCR 5 the Rate Schedules of : Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc.: 6 and Related Matters. : 7 - - - 8 PROCEEDINGS 9 before Mr. Gregory Price, Hearing Examiner, at the 10 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, 180 East Broad 11 Street, Room 11-F, Columbus, Ohio, called at 10:00 12 a.m. on Tuesday, April 1, 2008. 13 - - - 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC. 185 South Fifth Street, Suite 101 22 Columbus, Ohio 43215-5201 (614) 224-9481 - (800) 223-9481 23 Fax - (614) 224-5724 24 - - - 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 Mr. Rodney W. Anderson Mr. Stephen B. Seiple 3 NiSource 200 Civic Center Drive 4 Columbus, Ohio 43215 5 On behalf of Applicants. 6 Chester, Willcox & Saxbe, LLP By Mr. Matthew S. White 7 Mr. John W. Bentine Mr. Mark S. Yurick 8 65 East State Street, Suite 1000 Columbus, Ohio 43215-4213 9 Mr. Vincent A. Parisi, General Counsel 10 By Mr. Matthew S. White 5020 Bradenton Avenue 11 Dublin, Ohio 43017 12 On behalf of Interstate Gas Supply. 13 Mr. Bobby Singh, Senior Attorney By Mr. Matthew S. White 14 300 West Wilson Bridge Road, Suite 350 Worthington, Ohio 43085 15 On behalf of Integrys Energy Services, 16 Inc. 17 Janine L. Migden-Ostrander Ohio Consumers' Counsel 18 By Mr. Larry S. Sauer Mr. Joseph P. Serio 19 Assistant Consumers' Counsel Ten West Broad Street, Suite 1800 20 Columbus, Ohio 43215-3485 21 On behalf of the Residential Customers of Columbia Gas of Ohio. 22 23 24 3 1 APPEARANCES (continued): 2 Marc Dann, Ohio Attorney General Duane W. Luckey, Senior Deputy Attorney 3 General Public Utilities Section 4 By Mr. Stephen A. Reilly Mr. John H. Jones 5 Assistant Attorneys General 180 East Broad Street 6 Columbus, Ohio 43215 7 On behalf of the staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. 8 - - - 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 4 1 INDEX 2 - - - 3 COMPANY EXHIBIT ID'D REC'D 4 1 - Proofs of Publication 7 9 5 6 COMMISSION-ORDERED EXHIBIT ID'D REC'D 7 1 - Independent Accountants' Report 9 9 on Applying Agreed-Upon 8 Procedures; Audit Report 9 - - - 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 5 1 Tuesday Morning Session, 2 April 1, 2008. 3 - - - 4 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Good morning. The 5 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio has set for 6 hearing at this time and this place In the Matter of 7 the Regulation of the Purchased Gas Adjustment 8 Clauses Contained Within the Rate Schedules of 9 Columbia Gas of Ohio, Inc., case number 10 07-221-GA-GCR. 11 My name is Gregory Price. I'm the 12 attorney-examiner assigned to preside over today's 13 hearing. Let's begin by taking appearances starting 14 with the company. 15 MR. ANDERSON: Rodney W. Anderson with 16 NiSource representing Columbia Gas. I would also 17 like to enter the appearance of Stephen B. Seiple at 18 the same address that I've previously provided to the 19 recorder. 20 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Intervenors? 21 MR. WHITE: May it please the Commission, 22 I'm Matt White, I'm entering an appearance on behalf 23 of Interstate Gas Supply from Chester, Willcox & 24 Saxbe law firm, myself, John Bentine, and Mark 6 1 Yurick, also for general counsel of Interstate Gas 2 Supply, Vince Parisi. And also I'd like to make an 3 appearance for Bobby Singh from Integrys Energy. 4 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Thank you. 5 OCC. 6 MR. SAUER: Thank you, your Honor. On 7 behalf of the residential consumers of Columbia Gas 8 of Ohio, the office of the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, 9 Janine L. Migden-Ostrander, Consumers' Counsel, Larry 10 S. Sauer and Joseph P. Serio, assistant consumers' 11 counsel, 10 West Broad Street, Suite 1800, Columbus, 12 Ohio 43215. 13 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Staff. 14 MR. REILLY: Your Honor, on behalf of the 15 staff of the Public Utilities Commission, Marc Dann, 16 Ohio Attorney General, Duane Luckey, Section Chief, 17 Steve Reilly and John Jones, assistant attorneys 18 General, 180 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 43215. 19 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Thank you. 20 We have four pending motions that we have 21 not ruled upon at this point. On March 16th, 2007, 22 a motion for intervention was filed by Interstate Gas 23 Supply, Inc. On October 24th, 2007, a motion for 24 intervention was filed by Integrys Energy Services, 7 1 Inc. And on January 16th, 2008, a motion to 2 intervene was filed by the Ohio Consumers' Counsel. 3 All three motions to intervene will be granted at 4 this time. 5 In addition, on October 24th, 2007, a 6 motion for admission pro hac vice was filed on behalf 7 of Linda L. Hookham on behalf of Integrys Energy 8 Services, that motion will be granted at this time 9 also. 10 Do we have any other preliminary matters 11 at this point? 12 MR. ANDERSON: No, your Honor. 13 MR. SAUER: No. 14 MR. REILLY: No, your Honor. 15 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Let's proceed with 16 the exhibits. Mr. Anderson. 17 MR. ANDERSON: Yes, your Honor. I have 18 here the proof of publication we would like to have 19 marked and identified as Columbia Exhibit 1. 20 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: So marked. 21 (EXHIBIT MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION.) 22 MR. ANDERSON: Do you want the original, 23 or do you want a copy? 24 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: I want a copy. Give 8 1 her the original. 2 MR. ANDERSON: Okay. Your Honor, if we 3 could have that marked and identified as Columbia 4 Exhibit No. 1, the proof of publication. 5 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: It's so marked. 6 MR. ANDERSON: I would also like to point 7 out that of those newspapers that are listed in that 8 proof of notice there was one, which is identified on 9 the cover as No. 40, Vinton County Courier, which was 10 published two days after the required date in the 11 order due to the newspaper's scheduling of the ad. 12 But other than that, all the ads were run. We have 13 not yet gotten all of the original tear sheets and 14 affidavits, but we have at least faxes, and we've 15 indicated on here whether we have the originals or 16 the faxes. 17 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Thank you. 18 MR. ANDERSON: The next matter, your 19 Honor, would be the identification of the 20 Commission-ordered exhibit, the audit report and the 21 independent accountants' report on applying 22 agreed-upon procedures filed in this docket by 23 Deloitte Touche on June 30th, 2008, and we would 24 like to have that identified as Commission-Ordered 9 1 Exhibit No. 1. 2 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: So marked. 3 (EXHIBIT MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION.) 4 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Do you move the 5 admission of those exhibits at this time? 6 MR. ANDERSON: At this time we'd like to 7 move for admission of those exhibits. 8 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Any objections? 9 MR. SAUER: No. 10 MR. REILLY: No objection. 11 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Hearing none, those 12 exhibits will be admitted at this time. 13 (EXHIBITS ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.) 14 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Anything further? 15 MR. ANDERSON: No further preliminary 16 matters at this time, your Honor. If we could go off 17 the record so we can discuss the continuance. 18 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Let's go off the 19 record. 20 (Discussion off the record.) 21 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: Let's go back on the 22 record. 23 Mr. Anderson. 24 MR. ANDERSON: At this time, your 10 1 Honor, Columbia rests its case. 2 ATTORNEY EXAMINER: This was the public 3 hearing and there are no members of the public who 4 have appeared and wish to testify, so we'll go ahead 5 and grant a brief continuance pending any further 6 filings in this case. 7 Thank you all. 8 MR. REILLY: Thank your Honor. 9 MR. SAUER: Thank you. 10 MR. ANDERSON: Thank you. 11 (The hearing adjourned at 10:14 a.m.) 12 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 11 1 CERTIFICATE 2 I do hereby certify that the foregoing is a 3 true and correct transcript of the proceedings taken 4 by me in this matter on Tuesday, April 1, 2008, and 5 carefully compared with my original stenographic 6 notes. 7 _______________________________ Maria DiPaolo Jones, Registered 8 Diplomate Reporter and CRR and Notary Public in and for the 9 State of Ohio. 10 My commission expires June 19, 2011. 11 (MDJ-3156) 12 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24