1 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF OHIO 2 - - - 3 In the Matter of the 2008 : Long-Term Forecast Report : 4 for FirstEnergy : Case No. 08-504-EL-FOR Corporation and Related : 5 Matters. : - - - 6 PROCEEDINGS 7 8 before Ms. Kimberly Bojko, Hearing Examiner, at the 9 Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, 180 East Broad 10 Street, Room 11-F, Columbus, Ohio, called at 10 a.m. 11 on Tuesday, July 8, 2008. 12 - - - 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC. 185 South Fifth Street, Suite 101 21 Columbus, Ohio 43215-5201 (614) 224-9481 - (800) 223-9481 22 Fax - (614) 224-5724 23 - - - 24 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 2 1 APPEARANCES: 2 Nancy Rogers, Ohio Attorney General By Mr. Duane W. Luckey, 3 Senior Deputy Attorney General Public Utilities Section 4 Mr. Thomas W. McNamee, Assistant Attorney General 5 180 East Broad Street, 9th Floor Columbus, Ohio 43215 6 On behalf of the Staff of the PUCO. 7 - - - 8 9 10 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 July 8, 2008. 3 - - - 4 THE EXAMINER: Good morning. The Public 5 Utilities Commission of Ohio has called for hearing 6 at this time and place in the Matter of the 2008 7 Long-Term Forecast Report for FirstEnergy Corporation 8 and Related Matters, Case No. 08-504-EL-FOR. 9 I am Kim Bojko, and I am the Attorney 10 Examiner assigned to hear the case. 11 At this time I would like to take 12 appearances. On behalf of the Staff. 13 MR. McNAMEE: On behalf of the Staff of 14 the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, Nancy 15 Rogers, Attorney General of the State of Ohio, Duane 16 Luckey, Chief of Public Utilities Section, I am 17 Thomas W. McNamee, Assistant Attorney General. The 18 address is 180 East Broad Street, Columbus, Ohio 19 43215. 20 And I would note, your Honor, that 21 Mr. Burk for the company is not here. I believe he 22 may have had discussions with you. He had 23 discussions with me, didn't see much reason for him 24 to come as this is just a called and continued. ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 4 1 THE EXAMINER: Okay. I would also like 2 to note for the record that there are no members of 3 the public present in the hearing room today. And I 4 believe, Mr. McNamee, the parties are requesting that 5 the matter be called and continued; is that correct? 6 MR. McNAMEE: Yes, your Honor. The 7 Staff's investigation of this case is ongoing. We 8 have yet to identify any problems, but they haven't 9 completed their review. If we would continue this 10 case for perhaps two months, that would allow the 11 staff to complete its -- its review of the filing in 12 this case and either perhaps if no problems are 13 found, stipulate the case or if problems are found, 14 we could then arrange for a prehearing to frame the 15 issues and move on with the case. But at this point 16 two months should be fine to resolve it. 17 THE EXAMINER: The request for a 18 continuance is reasonable, and it will be granted. 19 We will, therefore, continue the hearing until 20 September 8, 2008, at 10 o'clock in the morning. 21 Is there any further business before us? 22 MR. McNAMEE: No, your Honor. 23 THE EXAMINER: Hearing none we will 24 conclude the hearing at this time and continue it ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481 5 1 until September 8. Thank you. 2 (Thereupon, the hearing was concluded at 3 10:05 a.m.) 4 - - - 5 CERTIFICATE 6 I do hereby certify that the foregoing is 7 a true and correct transcript of the proceedings 8 taken by me in this matter on Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 9 and carefully compared with my original stenographic 10 notes. 11 12 _______________________________ Karen Sue Gibson, Registered 13 Merit Reporter. 14 (KSG-4928) 15 - - - 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 ARMSTRONG & OKEY, INC., Columbus, Ohio (614) 224-9481