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<br /> <br />Due to the District of Columbia Decision, the PUC <br />issued Decision No. C82-l38 on January 26, staying <br />Decision No. C82-73 pending further order of the <br />Commission, and extending the deadline for requests <br />for rehearing and reconsideration of that decision to <br />March 1, 1982. <br /> <br />On March 23, 1982, the Commission entered Decision <br />No. C82-436, which indefinitely continued the stay <br />entered in Decision No. C82-l38-thus Decision No. <br />C82-73 will not become effective until the PUC order <br />to stay is lifted. <br /> <br />Under Decision No. C82-436, the PUC will initiate <br />new rule-making proceedings for Colorado, not based <br />on PURP A or the FERC Rules. This procedure could <br />take several years to complete. <br /> <br />A brief polling of developers presently holding <br />multiple small scale hydro permits in Colorado <br />indicates that the federal court decision will not have <br />a major effect on marketing power from the bulk of <br />their sites. It is not known what the effect will be on <br />other small scale hydropower technologies. It is our <br />belief that many hydro sites in Colorado have power <br />that will be attractive to the utilities in any case. <br /> <br />It is the decision of the editor of this document to <br />proceed with publication, even though portions of the <br />document are written as if the federal court decision <br />had not been rendered. The bulk of the guidance in <br />the document is sound in any case. The reader will <br />have to make adjustments in using the enclosed <br />information, depending on the outcome of the <br />proceedings discussed here. <br /> <br />Barbe Chambliss <br />Colorado Small Scale Hydro Coordinator <br />March 30,1982 <br />Hi <br />