Kentucky Public Service Commission

Order Entered: 1. Whitley District #1 's petition for confidential protection for all paper and electronic diagrams and maps of the Whitley District #1's water distribution system submitted with its application is granted. 2. The designated material shall not be placed in the public record or made available for public inspection until further Orders of this Commission. 3. Use of the material in question in any Commission proceeding shall be in compliance with 807 KAR 5:001, Section 13(9). 4. Whitley District #1 shall inform the Commission if the material in question becomes publicly available or no longer qualifies for confidential treatment. 5. If a non-party to this proceeding requests to inspect the material granted confidential treatment by this Order, Whitley District #1 shall have 20 days from receipt of written notice of the request to demonstrate that the material still falls within the exclusions from disclosure requirements established in KRS 61.878. If Whitley District #1 is unable to make such demonstration, the requested material shall be made available for inspection. Otherwise, the Commission shall deny the request for inspection. 6. The Commission shall not make the requested material available for inspection for 20 days following an Order finding that the material no longer qualifies for confidential treatment in order to allow Whitley District #1 to seek a remedy afforded by law.

Final Order Entered: 1. Whitley County District's motion to incorporate the record of Case No. 2017- 00068 is granted. 2. Whitley County District is granted a CPCN to proceed with the proposed construction as set forth in its application. 3. Whitely County District shall notify the Commission prior to performing any additional construction not expressly approved by this order. 4. Any deviation from the construction approved by this order shall be undertaken only with the prior approval of the Commission. 5. Whitley County District shall require construction to be inspected under the general supervision of a licensed professional engineer with a Kentucky registration in civil or mechanical engineering to ensure that the construction work is done in accordance with the contract drawings and specifications and in conformance with the best practices of the construction trades involved in the project. 6. Whitley County District is authorized to enter into the proposed Assistance Agreement with KIA and, under the terms of the Assistance Agreement, to borrow from KIA an amount not to exceed $37,204.00 to be repaid over a 20-year period at an interest rate of 0.75 percent per annum with a loan servicing fee of 0.25 percent of the annual outstanding loan balance payable to KIA with each interest payment. 7. Within 30 days of executing its proposed Assistance Agreement with KIA, Whitley County District shall file with the Commission an executed copy of the Assistance Agreement.

No deficiency letter

Acknowledge Receipt of Filing

Whitley County Water District No. 1 Application for Approval of Financing and Issuance of a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity and Petition for Confidential Treatment