diff --git a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe.ui/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/ui/actions/GroupEditCalls.java b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe.ui/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/ui/actions/GroupEditCalls.java
index 530293fbb4..a9d0229ebc 100644
--- a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe.ui/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/ui/actions/GroupEditCalls.java
+++ b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe.ui/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/ui/actions/GroupEditCalls.java
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ import com.raytheon.viz.mpe.util.ReadTemperatureStationList;
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
  * Mar 31, 2009            snaples     Initial creation
+ * Feb 5, 2015  17101      snaples     Updated max_stations to use size of dqc.precip_stations.
  * 
  * </pre>
  * 
@@ -72,13 +73,9 @@ public class GroupEditCalls {
 
     int pcpn_time = dqc.pcpn_time;
 
-    ReadPrecipStationList rp = new ReadPrecipStationList();
+    int max_stations = dqc.precip_stations.size();
 
-    ReadTemperatureStationList rt = new ReadTemperatureStationList();
-
-    int max_stations = rp.getNumPstations();
-
-    int max_tstations = rt.getNumTstations();
+    int max_tstations = dqc.temperature_stations.size();
 
     public void apply_group()
 
diff --git a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/BadValues.java b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/BadValues.java
index 382178e1ff..986316baab 100644
--- a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/BadValues.java
+++ b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/BadValues.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import com.raytheon.viz.mpe.util.DailyQcUtils.Station;
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
  * Mar 9, 2009            snaples     Initial creation
+ * Feb 5, 2015   17101    snaples     Fixed issue with writing zero length bad values file.
  * 
  * </pre>
  * 
@@ -51,8 +52,7 @@ import com.raytheon.viz.mpe.util.DailyQcUtils.Station;
 public class BadValues {
     BufferedReader in = null;
     DailyQcUtils dqc = DailyQcUtils.getInstance();
-    ReadPrecipStationList rp = new ReadPrecipStationList();
-    private int max_stations = rp.getNumPstations();
+    private int max_stations = dqc.precip_stations.size();
 
     
     public void read_bad_values(String precd, int m) {
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ public class BadValues {
                     // ier=sprintf(ibuf,"%s %s %d %f\n",bad_values[i].hb5,bad_values[i].parm,
                     // bad_values[i].quart,bad_values[i].fvalue);
 
-                    ibuf = String.format("%s %s %d %f", bad_values[i].hb5,
+                    ibuf = String.format("%s %s %d %4.2f", bad_values[i].hb5,
                             bad_values[i].parm, bad_values[i].quart,
                             bad_values[i].fvalue);
                     out.write(ibuf);
diff --git a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/GetBadSnotel.java b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/GetBadSnotel.java
index ebc695574d..ebc3af1584 100644
--- a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/GetBadSnotel.java
+++ b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/GetBadSnotel.java
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ import com.raytheon.viz.mpe.util.DailyQcUtils.Station;
  * Date         Ticket#    Engineer    Description
  * ------------ ---------- ----------- --------------------------
  * Mar 11, 2009            snaples     Initial creation
+ * Feb 5, 2015  17101      snaples     Updated max_stations to use size of dqc.precip_stations.
  * 
  * </pre>
  * 
@@ -68,8 +69,7 @@ public class GetBadSnotel {
         /* Retrieve the number of days to QC data for. */
         num_qc_days = dqc.qcDays;
 
-        ReadPrecipStationList pl = new ReadPrecipStationList();
-        int max_stations = pl.getNumPstations();
+        int max_stations = dqc.precip_stations.size();
 //        Pdata[] pdata = DailyQcUtils.pdata;
 
         for (j = 0; j < num_qc_days; j++) {
diff --git a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/ReadPrecipStationList.java b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/ReadPrecipStationList.java
index e20445a4f8..5fe2cc096f 100644
--- a/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/ReadPrecipStationList.java
+++ b/cave/com.raytheon.viz.mpe/src/com/raytheon/viz/mpe/util/ReadPrecipStationList.java
@@ -73,8 +73,7 @@ public class ReadPrecipStationList {
             e.printStackTrace();
         }
 
-        ReadPrecipStationList.max_pstations = dqc.precip_stations
-                .size();
+        max_pstations = dqc.precip_stations.size();
 
         return dqc.precip_stations;