Issue 8. Whether settlement of Avista’s xxxxxx balance will have implications for other utilities that have xxxxxx balances.
Issue 8. Whether section 20 of the proposed RPSA must be deleted because it conflicts with section 3(b) of the 2000 REP Settlement Agreements.
Issue 8. (a) Does the Commission have the authority to require AT&T to include in its ICAs entered into pursuant to Section 252, network elements either under state law or pursuant to Section 271 or any other federal law other than Section 251? (b) If the answer to part (a) is affirmative in any respect, does the Commission have the authority to establish rates for such element? (c) If the answer to part (a) or (b) is affirmative in any respect, (i) what language, if any should be included in the ICA with regard to the rates for such elements, and (ii) what language, if any, should be included in the ICA with regard to the terms and conditions of such elements?
Issue 8. What affect would leasing and mining the LBA tract have on the production of bituminous coal within Oklahoma and on the availability of bituminous coal in the international market place? The geographic and temporal scopes of analysis are the State of Oklahoma and the reasonably foreseeable production lifespan of mining on the LBA tract (approximately 6-16 years depending on the annual rate of production and the alternative), respectively. The State of Oklahoma was chosen as the geographic scope of analysis because the primary reasonably foreseeable environmental and socioeconomic effects of leasing and mining coal from the LBA tract are largely confined to the State of Oklahoma. The production lifespan of mining on the LBA tract was chosen as the temporal scope of analysis because mining of the LBA tract would not contribute to coal production within Oklahoma past this timeframe. U.S. exports of bituminous coal and worldwide bituminous coal production are also provided as points of context in the analysis.
