4. Proceeding Schedule

The assigned ALJ will hold a prehearing conference (PHC) in this matter at 10:00 a.m., on April 22, 2008, at the Commission's Hearing Room, State Office Building, 505 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, California 94102. No later than April 11, 2008, parties should file PHC statements, and serve them on the service list for R.06-03-004, unless a new service list for this proceeding is already established. In these statements, parties should comment on the preliminary scoping memo contained in this rulemaking, and whether they agree with the preliminary determination that hearings are not necessary.

Following the PHC, the assigned Commissioner and ALJ in this proceeding will issue a scoping memo, including a schedule for the proceeding. The Commission will schedule workshops, hearings and testimony, and/or comment filing dates, as appropriate.

This proceeding will conform to the statutory case management deadline for quasi-legislative matters set forth in Section 1701.5. In particular, it is our intention to resolve all relevant issues within 24 months of the date of the assigned Commissioner's Scoping Memo. In using the authority granted in Section 1701.5(b) to set a time longer than 18 months, we consider the number and complexity of the tasks and the need to coordinate certain aspects of this proceeding with the CEC.