PROCEDURES FOR SERVING TESTIMONY AND PREPARING EXHIBITS

1. Service of Exhibits

All prepared written testimony should be served via US mail and electronically on all appearances and state service on the service list, as well as on the Assigned Commissioner's office and on the Assigned ALJ. Parties are not obligated to adopt special procedures for serving e-mail addresses that do not work or are not provided on the service list. Parties should serve testimony electronically as close as possible to the time that the testimony is place in the mail.

Prepared written testimony should NOT be filed with the Commission's Docket Office.

One copy of prepared written testimony should be sent to the Assigned ALJ electronically at meg@cpuc.ca.gov and a hard copy should also be sent to each of the following locations:

1) ALJ Meg Gottstein

CPUC, Room 5044

505 Van Ness Avenue

San Francisco, CA 94102

2) ALJ Meg Gottstein

PO Box 210

Volcano, CA 95689-0210

(for overnight delivery only: 21496 National Street, Volcano, CA 95689)

2. Identification of Exhibits in the Hearing Room

Each party sponsoring an exhibit should, in the hearing room, provide one copy to the ALJ and one to the court reporter, and have sufficient copies available for distribution to parties present in the hearing room. Exhibits shall comply with Rule 70 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure. The upper right hand corner of the exhibit cover sheet should be blank for the ALJ's exhibit stamp. Please note that this directive applies to cross-examination exhibits as well. If there is not sufficient room in the upper right hand corner for an exhibit stamp, please prepare a cover sheet for the cross-examination exhibit.

3. Cross-examination With Exhibits

Any exhibit to be used for cross-examination purposes should be served in advance on counsel for the party to be cross-examined, or at worse, served on the day of hearings before they commence (service may need to be made electronically, by overnight mail or facsimile). This cuts the amount of hearing time spent on foundational matters. While some potential cross-examination exhibits may only come to the parties' attention after the hearing has started, and short notice may be necessary in some instances, the parties are strongly encouraged to cooperate in observing this suggested procedure and not to use "surprise" as a litigation strategy.

4. List of Exhibits, Estimates of Cross-Examination and
Scheduling Constraints

Each party should provide the following information via US mail and electronic delivery to the assigned ALJ at the addresses listed above no later then five (5) working days prior to the start of evidentiary hearings:

a. A list of exhibits that it intends to offer, in the approximate order they wish to have them introduced. The list should include the name of the witness and the subject or title of the document.

b. An estimate of direct and cross-examination time that the party needs, broken down by party and by witness.

c. A list of any schedule constraints affecting any of its witnesses.

Copies of this information should also be sent electronically to all appearances and the state service list in this proceeding. Service by US mail is optional.

5. Corrections to Exhibits

Generally, corrections to an exhibit should be made in advance and not orally from the witness stand. Corrections should be made in a timely manner by providing new exhibit pages on which corrections appear. The original text to be deleted should be lined out with the substitute or added text shown above or inserted. Each correction page should be marked with the word "revised" and the revision date.

Exhibit corrections will receive the same number as the original exhibit plus a letter to identify the correction. Corrections of exhibits with multiple sponsors will also be identified by chapter number. For example, Exhibit 5-3-B is the second correction made to Chapter 3 of Exhibit 5.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail, and by electronic mail, to the parties to which an electronic mail address has been provided, this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling Regarding Hearings on The Path 15 Expansion Project on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated December 28, 2001, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ TERESITA C. GALLARDO

Teresita C. Gallardo

NOTICE

Parties should notify the Process Office, Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2000, San Francisco, CA 94102, of any change of address to insure that they continue to receive documents. You must indicate the proceeding number on the service list on which your name appears.

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The Commission's policy is to schedule hearings (meetings, workshops, etc.) in locations that are accessible to people with disabilities. To verify that a particular location is accessible, call: Calendar Clerk (415) 703-1203.

If specialized accommodations for the disabled are needed, e.g., sign language interpreters, those making the arrangements must call the Public Advisor at (415) 703-2074,

TTY 1-866-836-7825 or (415) 703-5282 at least three working days in advance of the event.