1 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO 2 - - - 3 4 In the Matter of: The : Application of Columbus : 5 Southern Power Company for: a Certificate of : 6 Environmental : Compatibility and Public : 7 Need to Construct the Don : Marquis 138-Kilovolt : 8 Transmission Line : : 9 : : 10 : - - - 11 PROCEEDINGS 12 13 before Ms. Greta M. See, Administrative Law Judge, at 14 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, 180 East 15 Broad Street, Room Columbus, Ohio, called at 10:00 16 a.m. on Tuesday, April 15, 2008. 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 - - - ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 Marc Dann, Ohio Attorney General By Mr. Thomas W. McNamee 3 Ms. Margaret Malone Ms. Sarah Parrot 4 180 East Broad Street, 9th Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 5 6 On behalf of the Staff of the PUCO. 7 American Electric Power By Mr. Steven Nourse 8 One Riverside Plaza Columbus, Ohio 43215-2373 9 10 On behalf of Columbus Southern Power and AEP 11 - - - 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 3 1 Tuesday Morning Session, 2 April 15, 2008. 3 - - - 4 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: Let's go on 5 the record. 6 Scheduled for hearing today at this time 7 is case number 07-715-EL-BTX entitled In the Matter 8 of: The Application of Columbus Southern Power 9 Company for a Certificate of Environmental 10 Compatibility and Public Need to Construct the don 11 Marquis 138-Kilovolt Transmission Line Project. 12 My name is Greta See. I'm the 13 Administrative Law Judge assigned to this case. 14 At this time, I'd like to take 15 appearances of the parties. On behalf of Columbus 16 Southern Power. 17 MR. NOURSE: Thank you, Your Honor. On 18 behalf of Columbus Southern Power, and AEP Ohio, 19 Steven T. Nourse, One Riverside Plaza, Columbus, Ohio 20 43215. 21 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: Are you 22 finished, Mr. Nourse? 23 MR. NOURSE: Yes. 24 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: On behalf of ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 4 1 the Board. 2 MR. MCNAMEE: Thank you, Your Honor. 3 On behalf of the staff of the Power 4 Citing Board, Margaret Malone, Sarah Parrot, and I am 5 Thomas McNamee. 6 We're all Assistant Attorneys General, 7 and the address is 180 East Broad Street, Columbus, 8 Ohio. 9 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: First, are 10 there any members of the public present that wish to 11 make a statement? 12 Let the record reflect that there are no 13 members of the public present. 14 With that, Mr. Nourse. 15 MR. NOURSE: Thank you, Your Honor. We 16 are in discussions for settling this case, and 17 haven't completed those discussions. So I would move 18 for a continuance on that basis with the parties 19 agreeing to report back to Your Honor within the next 20 week as to the outcome of those discussions. 21 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: Okay. Do you 22 agree with that, Mr. McNamee? 23 MR. MCNAMEE: Yes, Your Honor. I would 24 note that this is a relatively simple case, and I ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 5 1 would be optimistic that we will be able to reach a 2 resolution relative quickly. 3 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: Okay. With 4 that, this hearing gets continued until further 5 notice, and I expect parties to report to me to let 6 me know the status of negotiations by April 25. 7 MR. NOURSE: And, Your Honor, just for 8 clarification, if we file a settlement, we don't need 9 to report back, right? 10 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: If you file a 11 settlement agreement before then, that's fine. 12 MR. NOURSE: Thank you. 13 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE: I'll take that 14 as your report. 15 With that, this matter is adjourned until 16 further notice. 17 MR. NOURSE: Thank you, Your Honor. 18 MR. MCNAMEE: Thank you, Your Honor. 19 (Thereupon, at 10:05 a.m. the 20 hearing was adjourned.) 21 - - - 22 23 24 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 6 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 15, 2008, and 5 carefully compared with my original stenographic 6 notes. 7 _______________________________ Deborah J. Guzzo, Registered 8 Notary Public in and for the State of Ohio. 9 10 My commission expires June 25, 2012. 11 (1627-DJG) 12 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481