LEGAL NOTICE Notice is hereby given that on June 27, 2008, Northern Indiana Public Service Company ("NIPSCO") filed a Petition with the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in Cause No. 43526 for (1) authority to modify its rates and charges for electric utility service; (2) approval of new schedules of rates and charges applicable thereto; (3) approval of revised depreciation accrual rates: (4) inclusion in its basic rates and charges of the costs associated with certain previously approved qualified pollution control property projects; (5) authority to implement a rate adjustment mechanism pursuant to Ind. Code § 8-1-2-42(a) to (a) timely recover charges and credits from regional transmission organizations and NIPSCO's transmission revenue requirements; (b) timely recover NIPSCO's purchase power costs; and (c) allocate NIPSCO's off system sales revenues; (6) approval of various changes to NIPSCO's electric service tariff including with respect to the general rules and regulations, the environmental cost recovery mechanism and the environmental expense mechanism; (7) approval of the classification of NIPSCO's facilities as transmission or distribution in accordance with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's seven-factor test; and (8) approval of an alternative regulatory plan pursuant to Ind. Code & 8-1-2.5-1 et seq. to the extent such relief is necessary to effect the ratemaking mechanisms proposed by NIPSCO. Eileen ONeill Odum CEO NORTHERN INDIANA PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY j10 [[In-content Ad]]