5. Disposition of Proceeding

This decision concludes consideration of all Phase 2 issues except for the CAISO's SCP tariff and coordination of the RA program with the final, adopted SCP provisions. As determined in Section 4.8, we will leave this proceeding open for a limited time to accommodate the possibility that the FERC will approve an SCP tariff, and we can institute a comment process and issue a final decision on SCP issues not later than July 30, 2009. We intend to institute a successor rulemaking proceeding later this year both to oversee the RA program and to establish local procurement obligations for 2011 and possibly in future years. We will therefore order the closure of this proceeding on July 30, 2009. In the event it is not possible to resolve SCP issues by July 30, 2009, the record of this proceeding with respect to those issues shall be incorporated in the record of the successor rulemaking proceeding.

In D.08-06-031, we authorized the assigned Commissioner or assigned ALJ to extend any compliance dates set forth in that decision. Since we will be closing this proceeding, we will not provide similar authorization in this decision. Accordingly, any requests for extensions of time to comply with this decision should be submitted to the Executive Director pursuant to Rule 16.6 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.