FINDINGS

1. Advice Letter 1479-E requests modification to the 15 interruption limit, in Schedules D-APS and GS-APS, to permit activation of the program during emergencies without the activation counting toward the 15 interruption limit.

2. SCE requests that Advice Letter 1479-E be approved at the August 21, 2000 or at the September 7, 2000 Commission meeting. SCE requests that the Commission reduce or waive the 30-day comment period due to public necessity. In addition, SCE requests that the Executive Director order an appropriate reduction in the protest period.

3. On August 21, 2000, Wesley M. Franklin, Executive Director of the California Public Utilities Commission, shortened the protest period to require protests be filed by August 31, 2000 and response to protests be filed by September 5, 2000.

4. On August 24, 2000, Premier protested Advice Letter 1479-E and expressed concern over the lack of notice to program participants and concern that participants be given the opportunity to exit the program without penalty if they do not support the changes.

5. Program participants should be notified of any adopted changes in the air conditioner cycling program.

6. Program participants should have an opportunity to exit the program without penalty if they do not support the adopted changes.

7. Public necessity requires that the 30-day comment period be reduced in order to secure the benefits of the proposed change during the summer peak season. We have balanced the public interest in avoiding the possible harm to public welfare from delay in considering the Resolution against the public interest in having the full 30-day period for review and comment, as required by Rule 77.7(f)(9), and concluded that the former outweighs the latter. We conclude that the 30-day review and comment period should be reduced.