9. Motion for Interim Rates

When a proposed decision was not issued by May 24, 2011, the final date to allow for a proposed decision to undergo the standard 30-day review and comment period and appear on the Commission's last June 2011 agenda, it became apparent that a decision was not likely to be issued by July 1, 2011, the date that current rates were due to expire. On May 27, 2011, San Gabriel filed a motion for interim rate relief to begin on July 1, 2011; San Gabriel followed this with an amended motion for interim rate relief filed on May 31, 2011. On June 24, 2011 consistent with D.07-05-062 (at 16), the Revised Rate Case Plan for Class A Water Utilities, the assigned ALJ in this proceeding issued a ruling granting interim rate relief in the company's Los Angeles District at the level of previous rates for the district, as requested in the amended motion filed on May 31, 2011. The June 24, 2011, ruling also authorized San Gabriel to create a memorandum account, the Interim Rates Memorandum Account, to track differences between the interim rates charged and those ultimately adopted through this proceeding. On June 29, 2011, San Gabriel filed an additional motion, requesting additional interim rate authority for its Fontana Division, which was unintentionally omitted from its amended motion for rate relief. This rate authority was also granted via ruling by the assigned ALJ.

This decision authorizes San Gabriel to amortize the difference between its interim rates and those adopted in its decision, as recorded in the memorandum account authorized in the June 24, 2011 ALJ ruling. San Gabriel may file a Tier 2 advice letter within 10 days of the effective date of this decision to amortize any balance in its Interim Rates Memorandum Account into the rates of relevant customers.