I’ve just served Minnesota Power first round of Information Requests from Intervenor Residents and Ratepayers Against Not-so-Great Northern Transmission (RRANT), and Applicant Minnesota Power has 8 business days to respond. The most important one is the first one, a general request for responses to IRs that others have sent — that should be an info dump — usually Dept. of Commerce does a pretty good job asking questions that need to be asked (not that they always follow through and address the issues in the hearing!).
RRANT_IR 1_for Minnesota Power
Take a look at these to get an idea what’s going on — Information Requests are one of the joys of intervention, as a party, we’re able to file them. IRs 2-6 are mostly getting general background info as preparation for diving in, and IRs 7-15 are cost related, how they plan to recover costs.
I try to group Information Requests in categories to help me track them. As I go through the Application, I’m taking notes, filling it with post-its (if you, like me, MUST have a hard copy, ask for one through their Great Northern Transmission site, or call Minnesota Power), and when I get a few questions, I fire off an Information Request.
If you have particular burning questions, let me know, and I’ll see if it’s something appropriate for an Information Request!