10. Service Lists/Filing and Service of Documents

The official service list for this proceeding is attached to this ruling. The parties shall notify the Commission's Process Office of any address, telephone or electronic mail (email) change to the service list. The updated service list is available on the Commission's web page maintained for this proceeding: www.cpuc.ca.gov/published/proceedings/I0310038.htm.

The parties agreed to distribute all pleadings and testimony in electronic form to the ALJ (jet@cpuc.ca.gov) and those parties who have provided an email address to the Process Office. This stipulation does not vacate the Commissioner's rules regarding filing of paper copies, Rule 2.5; the need to serve paper copies on any party without an electronic mail address; and the need to serve paper copies of any document that cannot be electronically distributed. Paper copies of pleadings and testimony that can be electronically distributed do not have to be sent directly to the ALJ.

IT IS RULED that:

1. The parties, scope of proceedings, specific issues to be addressed, and service list are set forth in paragraphs 5, 6, and 9, above.

2. The Commission's Water Division will file and serve notice of any additional person joining the staff prosecuting this proceeding for the Water Division. Counsel for the Water Division will admonish that person about the ex parte prohibition imposed in the proceeding, and the notice will confirm the admonition. The notice will be filed and served within five days of the addition of the person to the staff assigned to this proceeding.

3. Administrative Law Judge John E. Thorson is the presiding officer.

4. The Commission's preliminary categorization of this proceeding as adjudicatory, in Resolution ALJ 176-3121 (Oct. 16, 2003), is confirmed. An evidentiary hearing is required.

5. The ex parte prohibition of Pub. Util. Code § 1701.3(c) applies to this proceeding.

6. The schedule for the proceeding is set forth in paragraph 7.

7. Discovery disputes will be resolved pursuant to paragraph 8.

8. The parties shall file and serve their joint comparison exhibit, as described in paragraph 8, on or before January 30, 2004. The parties shall provide full cooperation in the preparation of these exhibits, and the Water Company shall instruct its current and former accountants to provide all information necessary to complete the exhibits.

9. A hearing on the Water Division's motion for contempt is stayed pending the filing of the joint comparison exhibits.

Dated January 9, 2004, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ Geoffrey F. Brown		/s/ John E. Thorson
Geoffrey F. Brown Assigned Commissioner		John E. Thorson Administrative Law Judge

Service Lists ************ APPEARANCES ************ Thomas J. Macbride, Jr. Attorney At Law GOODIN MACBRIDE SQUERI RITCHIE & DAY LLP 505 SANSOME STREET, SUITE 900 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94111 (415) 765-8444 tmacbride@gmssr.com For: Conlin-Strawberry Water Co., Inc. & Danny T. Conlin Cleveland Lee Legal Division RM. 5122 505 VAN NESS AVE San Francisco CA 94102 (415) 703-1792 cwl@cpuc.ca.gov For: Water Division - CPUC ********** STATE EMPLOYEE *********** Fred L. Curry 5 Water Division RM. 3106 505 VAN NESS AVE San Francisco CA 94102 (415) 703-1739 flc@cpuc.ca.gov Kerrie Evans Water Division AREA 3-B 505 VAN NESS AVE San Francisco CA 94102 (415) 703-2811 kke@cpuc.ca.gov For: CPUC Maria E. Stevens Executive Division RM. 500 320 WEST 4TH STREET SUITE 500 Los Angeles CA 90013 (213) 576-7012 mer@cpuc.ca.gov John E Thorson Administrative Law Judge Division RM. 5007 505 VAN NESS AVE San Francisco CA 94102 (415) 355-5568 jet@cpuc.ca.gov

********* INFORMATION ONLY ********** Danny Conlin CONLIN STRAWBERRY WATER CO., INC. PO BOX 116 STRAWBERRY CA 95375 (209) 965-4106 William R. Rugg 1753 STARVIEW DRIVE SAN LEANDRO CA 94577 (510) 351-8766 b.rugg@worldnet.att.net Regina Costa THE UTILITY REFORM NETWORK 711 VAN NESS AVENUE, SUITE 350 SAN FRANCISCO CA 94102 (415) 929-8876 X312 rcosta@turn.org

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 Scoping Memo and Ruling of Assigned Commissioner and Administrative Law Judge's Ruling on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated January 9, 2004, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ Antonina V. Swansen

Antonina V. Swansen

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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