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John Pickernell

Assistant Board Secretary

Ontario Energy Board

416-440-7605

Fax: 416-440-7656

Website: www.oeb.gov.on.ca

Official Correspondence: BoardSec@oeb.gov.on.ca



Address:

P.O. Box 2319

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Toronto, ON

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From: Jay Shepherd [mailto:jay.shepherd@shibleyrighton.com]
Sent: November 16, 2009 11:33 AM
To: BoardSec
Cc: regulatoryaffairs@torontohydro.com; Aiken, Randy; Alexander, Basil; Anderson, Lynne; Buonaguro, Michael; Martin Davies; Deluca, Lana; Demelo, Vic; John De Vellis; Faye, Peter T.; Gibbons, Jack; Girvan,Julie E.; Grice, Shelley; Griffiths Savolaine, Sarah; Winn, Glen; Harper, William (Bill); Heinz, Miriam; Higgin, Roger; Klippenstein, Murray; MacIntosh, David S.; McNally, Wayne; O'Leary, Dennis; Richmond, LA; Rodger, J. Mark; Stradling, C. S.(Chuck); Warren, Robert B.; White, Adam; John De Vellis
Subject: RE: EB-2009-0139 THESL Letter on Interrogatories



Reply to Board Secretary, copy to all parties:

We have reviewed the attached letter from THESL. In the interests of speed and efficiency of response, we are replying by email.

SEC’s interrogatories were presented in the format we have used for dozens of proceedings, perhaps even a hundred or more, over the last few years, and each interrogatory (with the exception of a few standard general ones at the beginning) has a specific reference to the evidence presented by the Applicant. In every other proceeding, this direct reference to the evidence has been accepted as necessarily relating the questions to the issues, since the Applicant’s evidence is already specifically tied to the issues. To the best of our knowledge, there are no interrogatories that are not squarely within the Board-approved Issues List, and there would appear to us to be no possibility for confusion. Therefore, for THESL now to ask that we identify one or more specific issues for each interrogatory does not appear to serve any useful purpose.

We seek the Board’s guidance on this. If the Board wishes that we change our standard interrogatory format, we will of course do so forthwith. However, in our submission, as no other utility has ever had any problem with the format we use, making a change at this stage in this proceeding seems to us to be unnecessary.

Jay

Jay Shepherd

416-804-2767 (phone)

416-214-5424 (fax)

www.shibleyrighton.com



From: regulatoryaffairs@torontohydro.com [mailto:regulatoryaffairs@torontohydro.com]
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 11:11 AM
To: Aiken, Randy; Alexander, Basil; Anderson, Lynne; Buonaguro, Michael; Davies, Martin; Deluca, Lana; Demelo, Vic; John De Vellis; Faye, Peter T.; Gibbons, Jack; Girvan,Julie E.; Grice, Shelley; Griffiths Savolaine, Sarah; Winn, Glen; Harper, William (Bill); Heinz, Miriam; Higgin, Roger; Klippenstein, Murray; MacIntosh, David S.; McNally, Wayne; O'Leary, Dennis; OEB; regulatoryaffairs; Richmond, LA; Rodger, J. Mark; Jay Shepherd; Stradling, C. S.(Chuck); Warren, Robert B.; White, Adam
Cc: regulatoryaffairs
Subject: EB-2009-0139 THESL Letter on Interrogatories



Please see attached letter filed in RESS today.



Yours truly,

Anna-Christina Crespo

Regulatory Coordinator

416-542-2755

acrespo@torontohydro.com





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