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BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


In the Matter of the Requested )
Waiver of Statutory Notice in )  DOCKET UT-970615
Connection with the Tariff ) 
Revision Filed by the Washington ) ORDER GRANTING LESS
Exchange Carrier Association  ) THAN STATUTORY NOTICE
 )


  On April 7, 1997, the Washington Exchange Carrier Association (WECA), filed 
with the Commission under its Advice No. 16 a revision to its currently 
effective Tariff WN U-1, designated as Original Sheet No. 10 - Schedule 5.

  The tariff sheet bears an inserted effective date of May 8, 1997.  This date 
recognizes statutory notice as required. WECA requests, however, that statutory 
notice be waived, and that the revision become effective April 24, 1997.

  The purpose of this filing is to provide a rate additive element in the WECA 
access tariff which will be remitted to Pend Oreille Telephone Company (POTC) 
to recover a short-fall in POTC's revenue requirement for access service.  This 
rate additive will be used on an interim basis until such time as POTC is 
incorporated into the WECA carrier common line pool.

  WECA requests an effective date which is less than statutory notice in order 
to meet Commission Staff's requested effective date.  

  Since the tariff revision filed herein is fair, just, and reasonable, and 
waiver of statutory notice is not inconsistent with the public interest, it is 
deemed appropriate that WECA be granted the waiver it is requesting with an 
effective date of April 24, 1997.



FINDINGS

  After careful examination of the tariff revision filed herein by the 
Washington Exchange Carrier Association on April 7, 1997, and giving 
consideration to all relevant matters and for good cause shown, the Commission 
finds that the tariff revision should become effective April 24, 1997.



O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION ORDERS that the requested waiver of statutory notice in 
connection with the tariff revision in Advice No. 16 filed herein by the 
Washington Exchange Carrier Association on April 7, 1997, is granted, and said 
tariff revision shall become effective April 24, 1997.

  DATED at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 23rd day of April 1997.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION




      STEVE McLELLAN, Secretary