7. Limiting the Scope of Issues in the 2008 LTPP Proceeding

The Commission recognizes a tendency for the LTPP proceeding, as the umbrella proceeding, to attract "forum-shopping" proposals from parties that have had their ideas rejected, or have yet to be considered, in other proceedings. Therefore, the Commission finds it necessary to adopt a scoping standard for the LTPP proceeding, in order to highlight what constitutes an issue that is legitimately in scope in this proceeding.

LTPP Scoping Standard. The LTPP scoping standard is defined as follows:

· Any procurement-related issue(s) not already considered in other procurement-related dockets, as outlined in Table 1 above, may be considered, subject to the following conditions. The issue(s) must:

(1) Materially impact procurement policies, practices and/or procedures;

(2) Be narrowly defined; and

(3) Demonstrate consistency with one or more of the LTPP proceeding goals described in Section 4 above.

The following issues are not in the scope of this proceeding:

· Development or litigation of the CEC load forecast, except as it pertains to the degree of overlap between the Commission's EE goals and the treatment of uncommitted EE in the CEC's load forecast;

· Implementation details related to AB 1576 and "preferential treatment" of Brownfield projects in RFOs for new generation; and

· Any matters proposed by parties that do not meet the scoping standard annunciated above, subject to Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) or assigned Commissioner ruling.