Idaho Admin. Code r. 04.12.01.111
Within one (1) week of the receipt of a notice of intent to file application, the Office of the Attorney General will appoint a hearing officer for the formal proceeding to follow and will assign staff to an investigative role for informal discussion with the prospective applicants concerning the application and the investigative/prosecutorial staff's position on the application. The purposes of these discussions between investigative/prosecutorial staff and the potential applicant, which will be open to interested members of the public, will be to gain understanding of the application to follow, to simplify or clarify issues that will be the subject of the application to follow, and to generally improve the presentations of all parties in the contested case hearing that will follow. Neither the prosecutorial investigative staff nor the applicant shall have any ex parte conduct with the hearing officer on any matter of substance concerning the pending application.
Idaho Admin. Code r. 04.12.01.111