Reduction of Comment Period and Comments on the Proposed Decision
Pursuant to Rule 14.6(c)(2) of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure, the Commission may reduce or waive the 30-day public review and comment period required by Section 311 of the Public Utilities Code to 15 days.
Comments were filed on August 28, 2007 by Verizon, AT&T California, U.S. Telepacific Corp. (Telepacific) and Utility Telephone, Inc. (UTI). No reply comments were accepted. Verizon points out a technical error and AT&T California requests a clarification in the Proposed Decision (PD). Yet, both generally support the PD. We make the correction and clarification, and include them in the final decision.
Telepacific and UTI declare that they do not so much oppose the actions proposed to be taken as they oppose "their potential for extending the already enormous time delay that has occurred" prior to the Commission's ordering performance "incentives" for Verizon.32 They urge the Commission to hold this decision long enough to incorporate appropriate performance measure "incentives" applicable to Verizon.33 We consider the two matters to be separate. Consequently, the Commission will not hold this decision, which resolves a number of undisputed issues, as a pledge to the disputed issue that Telepacific and UTI raise. It is not properly raised here. Thus, we deny the request.
32 Telepacific and UTI Comments at 2.
33 Id. at 3.
