BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION



In the Matter of the Requested
Waiver of Statutory Notice in 
Connection with the Contract Filed By
North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc.
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		DOCKET UW-991428
		
		ORDER GRANTING LESS THAN
		STATUTORY NOTICE AND 
		APPROVING CONTRACT

  On September 15, 1999, North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., (North 
Bainbridge) filed a line extension contract and request for less than statutory 
notice (LSN) treatment.  This line extension contract is with the members of 
the Day Road Light Manufacturing Fire Flow Association (Day Road Association).  
The Day Road Association is made up of approximately 18 businesses and/or 
individuals who are located in the area generally known as the Day Road Light 
Manufacturing Area and Manzanita Business Park Master Plan Development and who 
need fire flow capacity to meet minimum code requirements necessary to obtain 
building permits.

  This line extension contract calls for the installation of a ten-inch (10") 
water main from the company’s Madison Avenue storage facility to Day Road West 
area.  The contract project will be completed in three (3) phases with three 
separate costs.  The total projected cost of this project is $524,309.  North 
Bainbridge shall contribute approximately $179,300 toward the project.  The 
remaining amount of $345,009 will be contributed by the Day Road Association.  
Any cost overruns will be prorated to North Bainbridge and the Day Road 
Association according to the original allocation percentages.

  North Bainbridge will enter into separate contracts for main connection costs 
and fire flow service at the time of connection to the fire flow main.  The 
proposed fire flow rate will be $.25 per one hundred square feet of building 
space on the entity’s property.

  Day Road Association will be entitled to a late-comers agreement to future 
connections outside of the Day Road Association.  Late-comer amounts collected 
will be distributed to the Day Road Association based on original allocation 
percentages.

  The line extension contract bears an inserted effective date of 
October 15, 1999.  This date recognizes statutory notice as required.  The 
company requests, however, that statutory notice be waived and that the 
contract become effective September 30, 1999.  North Bainbridge is requesting 
LSN treatment of this contract to comply with building permits and construction 
season.

  Since the contract filed herein is 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 
September 30, 1999.
FINDINGS

  After careful examination of the line extension contract filed herein by 
North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., September 15, 1999, and giving 
consideration to all relevant matters and for good cause shown, the Commission 
finds that the tariff revision should become effective September 30, 1999.

O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION ORDERS:

  1. That the requested waiver of statutory notice in connection with the line 
extension contract filed herein by North Bainbridge Water Company, Inc., 
September 15, 1999, is hereby granted, and said line extension contract shall 
become effective September 30, 1999.

  2. 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 at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 29th day of September, 1999.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION




      CAROLE J. WASHBURN,  Secretary