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BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


In the Matter of the Requested )
Waiver of Statutory Notice in )  DOCKET UW-981096
Connection with the Contract ) 
Filed by North Bainbridge  ) ORDER GRANTING LESS
Water Company, Inc. ) THAN STATUTORY NOTICE
 ) AND APPROVING CONTRACT


  On August 14, 1998, North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., filed with the 
Commission a contract for water service with Olympic Terrace Water System 
Association, Inc.

  This contract provides for Olympic Terrace Water System Association, Inc. 
(Olympic Terrace Community),  to install and pay for a 200-foot intertie line 
extension.  This intertie line extension will be used for providing water 
service to the Olympic Terrace Community of twenty-four (24) existing services 
and two (2) ready-to-serve connections.  This community will abandon their 
existing water system/source due to inability to maintain adequate capacity to 
serve its members and has elected to make application to North Bainbridge 
Water. 

  Olympic Terrace Community owners will pay for the engineering and legal fees 
to provide the intertie line extension.  Additionally, they will pay a $1,740 
facilities charge each, $25.00 account set up fee each, and a $1,300 general 
administrative fee on a shared basis   North Bainbridge will own and operate 
the intertie line extension, internal plat distribution system, and provide 
water services at its currently tariffed rates.

  The contract bears an effective date of September 13, 1998.  This date 
recognizes statutory notice as required.  The company requests, however, that 
statutory notice be waived and that the contract become effective August 27, 
1998, on less than statutory notice (LSN).

  The water company is requesting LSN treatment to meet the request of the 
Olympic Terrace Community owner’s urgent need for water service. 

  Since the contract filed herein appears fair, just and reasonable, and waiver 
of statutory notice is not inconsistent with the public interest, it is deemed 
appropriate that the company be granted the waiver it is requesting with an 
effective date of August 27, 1998.

FINDINGS

  After careful examination of the contract filed herein by North Bainbridge 
Water Company, Inc., August 14, 1998, and giving consideration to all relevant 
matters and for good cause shown, the Commission finds that the contract should 
become effective August 27, 1998.

O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION ORDERS:

  1. That the requested waiver of statutory notice in connection with the 
contract filed herein by North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., August 14, 1998, 
is hereby granted, and said contract shall become effective August 27, 1998.

  2. North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., shall within sixty (60) days of this 
approval file with the Commission a record of all cost incurred and bookkeeping 
entries reflecting this contract.

  3. This order shall in no way affect the authority of this commission over 
rates, service, or accounts, evaluations, estimates, or determination of cost 
or any matters whatsoever that may come before it, nor shall anything herein be 
construed as an acquiescence in any estimate or determination of cost or any 
valuation of property claimed or asserted.

  DATED and signed at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 26st day of 
August, 1998.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION




      ANNE LEVINSON, Chair




      RICHARD HEMSTAD, Commissioner




      WILLIAM R. GILLIS, Commissioner