1 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO 2 - - - 3 In the Matter of the : Regulation of the : 4 Purchased Gas Adjustment : Clause Contained Within : Case No. 08-205-GA-GCR 5 the Rate Schedules of : Constitution Gas Transport: 6 Co., Inc. and Related : Matters. : 7 - - - 8 PROCEEDINGS 9 before Ms. Jeanne Kingery, Hearing Examiner, at the 10 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, 180 East Broad 11 Street, Room 11-C, Columbus, Ohio, called at 10:00 12 a.m. on Tuesday, July 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 Bell & Royer Co., LPA By Mr. Barth E. Royer 3 33 South Grant Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43215-3900 4 On behalf of Constitution Gas Transport 5 Co., Inc. 6 Nancy H. Rogers, Ohio Attorney General By Ms. Anne L. Hammerstein 7 and Ms. Sarah J. Parrot Assistant Attorneys General 8 Public Utilities Section 180 East Broad Street, 9th floor 9 Columbus, Ohio 43215 10 On behalf of the staff of the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio. 11 - - - 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 3 1 INDEX 2 - - - 3 JOINT EXHIBIT ID'D REC'D 4 1 - Stipulation and Recommendation 5 5 5 6 COMMISSION-ORDERED EXHIBIT ID'D REC'D 7 1 - Staff Report 6 6 8 9 CONSTITUTION GAS EXHIBIT ID'D REC'D 10 1 - Verification of Publication 7 7 11 - - - 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 4 1 Tuesday Morning Session, 2 July 1, 2008. 3 - - - 4 THE EXAMINER: The Public Utilities 5 Commission of Ohio has called for hearing at this 6 time and place case number 08-205-GA-GCR being In the 7 Matter of the Regulation of the Purchased Gas 8 Adjustment Clause Contained Within the Rate Schedules 9 of Constitution Gas Transport Co., Inc. 10 My name is Jeanne Kingery. I am the 11 attorney-examiner assigned by the Commission to hear 12 this case. Let's begin with appearances of the 13 parties. 14 Mr. Royer. 15 MR. ROYER: Thank you, your Honor. On 16 behalf of Constitution Gas Transport Company, Barth 17 Royer of the firm of Bell & Royer Co., LPA, 33 South 18 Grant Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43215. 19 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: Thank you, your Honor. 20 On behalf of the staff of the Public Utilities 21 Commission of Ohio, Nancy H. Rogers, Attorney 22 General, by Anne L. Hammerstein and Sarah J. Parrot, 23 Assistant Attorneys General, 180 East Broad Street, 24 Columbus, Ohio 43215. 5 1 THE EXAMINER: Thank you. 2 I would note for the record that there 3 are no members of the public present here today. 4 I understand the parties have reached a 5 stipulation. 6 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: That's correct, your 7 Honor. First, before we present that, Staff would 8 like to move into the record Commission-ordered 9 Exhibit 1 which is the report by the staff of the 10 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio in the matter of 11 Constitution Gas Transport Co., Inc., it was docketed 12 on April 29th of 2008 and I've already given copies 13 of that to your Honor and the court reporter. 14 THE EXAMINER: It will be so marked. 15 (EXHIBIT MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION.) 16 THE EXAMINER: I would assume there are 17 no objections to its admission. 18 MR. ROYER: No objections. 19 THE EXAMINER: It will be admitted. 20 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: Thank you, your Honor. 21 (EXHIBIT ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.) 22 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: And then the parties 23 would move Joint Exhibit 1 which is the stipulation 24 and recommendation that was docketed shortly before 6 1 the hearing today on July 1st, 2008, which the 2 parties believe settles all the issues raised in the 3 Staff Report in this case. 4 THE EXAMINER: Thank you. It will be so 5 marked. 6 (EXHIBIT MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION.) 7 THE EXAMINER: And I assume you have no 8 objection. 9 MR. ROYER: No objection. 10 THE EXAMINER: Thank you. It will be 11 admitted. 12 (EXHIBIT ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.) 13 MR. ROYER: And then in addition, your 14 Honor, I offer as Constitution Gas Exhibit 1 the 15 verification of publication in this matter. As 16 discussed in the stipulation, the company elected to 17 publish notice under the option that permits them to 18 do so through bill insert, and this is the 19 verification of publication indicating that these 20 bill inserts were received by customers after June 21 1st but before June 15th, which is within the 22 window contemplated by the Commission's rule. 23 I note that inadvertently I seem to have 24 the wrong case number on the verification, and with 7 1 your leave I'd like to -- I also lost my pen in the 2 process somewhere, so I'd like to correct that on 3 here if I could. 4 I'll give the original to the reporter. 5 THE EXAMINER: It will be so marked as 6 corrected. 7 (EXHIBIT MARKED FOR IDENTIFICATION.) 8 THE EXAMINER: And I assume you have no 9 objections. 10 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: No objections. 11 THE EXAMINER: It will be admitted. 12 (EXHIBIT ADMITTED INTO EVIDENCE.) 13 THE EXAMINER: Is there anything further? 14 MR. ROYER: Yes, your Honor. I'd just 15 like to state for the record the company's 16 appreciation to Roger Sarver of the PUCO staff. As 17 you may be aware, this company had a bundled rate for 18 gas service up until the end of 2005 and had some 19 growing pains adjusting to the GCR, but Mr. Sarver 20 has been of great assistance throughout that process 21 and in the course of the audit as well. So I just 22 want to publicly state our thanks to him. 23 THE EXAMINER: Thank you, very much. 24 With that, we are adjourned. 8 1 MR. ROYER: Thank you. 2 MS. HAMMERSTEIN: Thank you, your Honor. 3 THE EXAMINER: Thank you. 4 (The hearing concluded at 10:04 a.m.) 5 - - - 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 9 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, July 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-3214) 12 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24