COMMISSION

WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND         )
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION,       ) DOCKET NO. UT-971140
                                 )
               Complainant,      )
                                 )
     v.                          )
                                 )
WASHINGTON EXCHANGE CARRIER      ) VOLUME VII
ASSOCIATION, et al.              ) Pages 679-787
                                 )
               Respondent.       )
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           A hearing in the above matter was held at 8:43

a.m. on May 29, 1998, at 1300 South Evergreen Park Drive

Southwest, Olympia, Washington before Commissioners ANNE

LEVINSON, RICHARD HEMSTAD and WILLIAM R. GILLIS and

Administrative Law Judge TERRENCE STAPLETON.

           The parties were present as follows:

           WECA/CERTAIN NAMED WITA COMPANIES
("RAF-COMPANIES"), by RICHARD A. FINNIGAN, Attorney at
Law, 2405 Evergreen Park Drive Southwest, Suite B3,
Olympia, Washington 98502.
 
           CERTAIN NAMED WITA COMPANIES ("RSS-COMPANIES"),
by ROBERT S. SNYDER, Attorney at Law, 1000 Second Avenue,
30th Floor, Seattle, Washington 98104.
 
           SPRINT/UNITED, by ANN WILKINSON, Attorney at
Law, 330 South Valley View Boulevard, Las Vegas, Nevada
89107.
 
           COMMISSION STAFF, by MARY M. TENNYSON, Sr.
Assistant Attorney General, 1400 South Evergreen Park
Drive Southwest, Olympia, Washington 98502.
 
Lisa K. Nishikawa, CSR, RPR, Court Reporter
 

                         I N D E X

                         D      C      RD      RC     EXAM

TWITCHELL                       681    764     777    752
                                       775            774
 

EXHIBIT                  MARKED        ADMITTED

182                                    693
183                                    693
184                                    693
C-185                    684           751
186                      694           751
C-187                    694           751
C-188                    694           751
T-189                    785
T-190                    785
C-191                    785
C-192                    785
193                      785
T-194                    787

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

           JUDGE STAPLETON:  Let's be back on the record,

please.  This is a continuation in the evidentiary

hearings, the matter of the Washington Utilities and

Transportation Commission versus Washington Exchange

Carrier Association under Docket Number UT-971140.

Today's date is Friday, May 29, 1998.  We're convened in

Olympia, Washington before Chairman Anne Levinson,

Commissioners Richard Hemstad, William R. Gillis, and

Administrative Law Judge Terrence Stapleton.

           We will resume with the cross-examination of

Mr. Twitchell.  Remind you, Mr. Twitchell, you are still

under oath and we'll pick up with Mr. Finnigan's cross,

please.

           MR. FINNIGAN:  Thank you.

 

                   MAURICE K. TWITCHELL,

having been previously sworn, was called as a witness

herein and was examined and testified as follows:

 

                     CROSS-EXAMINATION

BY MR. FINNIGAN:

     Q.    Mr. Twitchell, let's resume with the subject of

the corporate overheads expense.

     A.    Okay.

     Q.    When you did the analysis of the NECA data, did

you confirm whether that included all NECA companies or

not?

     A.    No, it didn't.

     Q.    Do you know whether or not the information

contained covers all NECA member companies?

     A.    It's my understanding that it does.

     Q.    Do you have a list of -- do you have your

printout?  Do you have NECACOR on your computer?

     A.    Yes, I do.

     Q.    NECACOR2 I believe is the version we're working

with.  Is that what you have loaded?

     A.    Yes.

     Q.    Would you see if you could find Mt. Angel

Telephone Company.  It's an Oregon telephone company.

           MR. SNYDER:  Your Honor, may I make a

suggestion?  I have an exhibit that I intended to have

marked and used in my examination which I will represent

is a printout of the document to which Mr. Finnigan is

referring and that I believe Mr. Twitchell is referring

to.  If it would be helpful, we could at least mark that

one now so there would be something that the bench could

look at that would correspond with what the witness may be

looking at.

           MS. TENNYSON:  I have no objection.

           JUDGE STAPLETON:  All right.  Should we

distribute that and mark it then, please?

     A.    What was the name of that company again?

     Q.    Mt. Angel.

     A.    Mount?

     Q.    M T.

           JUDGE STAPLETON:  Good morning.  Are there

individuals who are on the bridge line this morning?

           MR. SNYDER:  Your Honor, if I might, just a

comment.  The file NECACOR2 -- and we'll ask the witness

about this to lay a proper foundation, is a Lotus based

computer file that consists of multiple sheets.  What has

been printed out and I'm asking to have marked and the

witness will be able to confirm, I hope, is a printout of

sheet D from that.  It has different names depending on

whether you're looking at it in the Excel version or

you're looking at it in the Lotus version.  We can

clarify.  It's not the entire file, but it's that one

spreadsheet portion of the file that's part of a larger

workbook.

           JUDGE STAPLETON:  Okay.

           MR. SNYDER:  (Handing.) Your Honor, this

multi-page document that I have handed you could