News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Matt Skinner, Public Information Officer

Phone: (405) 521-4180, FAX: (405) 522-1623, www.occ.state.ok.us

May 30, 2001

A D V I S O R Y

WHO: Staff of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, ONEOK staff

WHAT: Hearing before Administrative Law Judge Robert Goldfield on OCC staff’s request that ONEOK be held in contempt for refusal to turn over requested documents.

WHEN: Thursday, May 31 at 1:30 p.m.

WHERE: Jim Thorpe Building, Commission Courtroom (301)

State Capitol Complex, Oklahoma City

WHY: Staff had requested the documents from ONEOK stating the documents are needed to ascertain whether ONEOK subsidiary ONG paid a “fair, just, and reasonable” price for the gas it supplied Oklahomans during the past heating season, a cost ultimately borne by the ratepayer. At issue is the price of gas ONG purchased from other ONEOK subsidiaries, as compared to the price of the gas those subsidiaries sold non-ONEOK entities.

ONEOK has twice asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stop staff in its attempt to get the documents in question. On both occasions, that request has been denied.

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