DOCKET UG-981376 Page 1
 

BEFORE THE WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION


WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND )
TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION, )
   )
  Complainant, )   DOCKET UG-981376
   )
 vs.  )
   )   ORDER DISMISSING COMPLAINT
AVISTA UTILITIES, )   AND ORDER SUSPENDING
   )   TARIFF REVISION AND
   )   GRANTING TARIFF REVISION
  Respondent. )
 )


   On October 29, 1998, Avista Utilities (formerly, The Washington Water Power 
Company) filed with the Commission, a revision to its currently effective 
Tariff WN U-27 designated as:

Thirteenth Revision Sheet 155
Cancelling
Twelfth Revision Sheet 155

  The Commission, November 25, 1998, entered a Complaint and Order Suspending 
Tariff Revision, but allowed the rates to go into effect on a temporary basis, 
pending an investigation concerning the changes and the reasonableness and 
justness thereof.

  The investigation has been completed and all outstanding issues have been 
resolved.  Accordingly, it is deemed that the Complaint and Order Suspending 
Tariff Revisions in this docket be dismissed and that the temporary rates are 
fair, just, and reasonable and should become permanent.


FINDINGS

  1. Avista Utilities is a natural gas company and as such is a public service 
company subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission.

  2. The revision presently under suspension herein are not considered to be 
unreasonable.

  3. It is not contrary to public interest that the Complaint and Order 
Suspending Tariff Revision in this docket be dismissed and that the temporary 
rates become permanent.


O R D E R

  THE COMMISSION THEREFORE ORDERS That the Complaint and Order Suspending 
Tariff Revision in this docket, dated 
November 25, 1998, be and the same is hereby dismissed, and that the revisions 
filed herein October 29, 1998, be and the same shall become permanent.

  DATED at Olympia, Washington, and effective this 10th day of February, 1999.

  WASHINGTON UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION COMMISSION




      ANNE LEVINSON, Chair




      RICHARD HEMSTAD, Commissioner




      WILLIAM R. GILLIS, Commissioner