7. Award

We award GSMOL $29,731.57, calculated as described above and detailed below.

Advocate	Year	Hours	Rate	Amount
Scharf, Professional	1999, 2000	175.25	$150.00	$26,287.50
Scharf, Travel and Compensation filing	1999, 2000	8	$ 75.00	$600.00
Barkovich and Yap Consulting				0.00
Substitute Counsel				$831.00
Other Costs				$2,013.07
			Total	$29,731.57

Although the Commission's initial order in this proceeding names only Class A and Class B water utilities as respondents, D.01-05-058 affects the entire regulated water and sewer utility industries. As such, we find it appropriate to authorize payment of the award from the intervenor compensation program fund, as described in D.00-01-020, rather than requiring a proportional payment allocated among the designated respondents.

Consistent with previous Commission decisions, we will order that interest be paid on the award (calculated at the three-month commercial paper rate), commencing September 24, 2001 (the 75th day after GSMOL filed its compensation requests), and continuing until full payment of the award is made.

Intervenors that have never received payment of an award from the Commission must provide their taxpayer identification number to ensure payment along with a completed STD 204 Payee Data Record form, available at http://www.documents.dgs.ca.gov/osp/pdf/std204.pdf to the below address. For assistance completing Section 1 of STD 204, call the phone number below.

California Public Utilities Commission

Attention: Fiscal Office

505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 3000

San Francisco, CA 94102

(415) 703-2306

As in all intervenor compensation decisions, we put GSMOL on notice that the Commission staff may audit its records related to this award. Thus, GSMOL must make and retain adequate accounting and other documentation to support all claims for intervenor compensation. These records should identify specific issues for which it requests compensation, the actual time spent by each employee, the applicable hourly rate, fees paid to consultants, and any other costs for which compensation may be claimed.

This is a compensation decision per § 1801 (Rule 77.7(f)(6)). Accordingly, the otherwise applicable 30-day period for public review and comment is being waived.