2. Procedural Matters

The Proposed Decision of the assigned Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) was served on February 14, 2001. Comments and reply comments were filed in response to this Proposed Decision. Because of the breadth of the GO and the completeness of the comments, we decided to adopt the rules in a phased manner. As the result of this process, we have adopted three interim decisions. Our decision today is the penultimate step in the adoption of the General and Industry Rules that will comprise a complete GO 96-B.

The parties who have appeared in this proceeding are listed in Appendix D.