7. Cost-Sharing With TURN
UCAN and TURN cooperated closely in the consolidated proceedings. UCAN focused on SDG&E (A.0212-028) while TURN focused on SoCalGas (A.02-12-027). Because SoCalGas and SDG&E have common ownership and share Corporate Center management functions, these two applications were a good candidate for this type of cooperation. UCAN and TURN shared the engagement of Overland Consulting, whose work was applicable to both applications. UCAN filed its request for compensation before TURN, who filed a request for compensation on February 7, 2005. UCAN had already included the full invoiced amount for Overland Consulting without an allocation to TURN's work on SoCalGas' separate application. TURN indicated11 that its share of Overland Consulting's costs is $82,500. TURN and UCAN have agreed12 that the full costs should be recovered for Overland Consulting by UCAN and these costs need not be reconsidered in TURN's request for compensation.
We agree that the Overland Consulting costs need only one review and so we will include the full cost for Overland Consulting in this decision. We will allocate the SoCalGas-related $82,500 portion to SoCalGas and not to SDG&E. As discussed above, we authorized the recovery of costs for Overland Consulting at the rates requested by UCAN.
11 TURN Request, p. 22, footnote 11.
12 February 9, 2005 letter to ALJ Long.
