Notice of the application appeared in the Commission's February 23, 2007 Daily Calendar. Edward H. Leonhardt, P.E. filed a formal protest on March 16, 2007. SCE filed its reply to comments on March 28, 2007. SCE filed an Amendment to the present application on July 17, 2007.
Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) Kolakowski convened a prehearing conference in Banning, California on August 1, 2007.
On March 20, 2008, the Assigned Commissioner and ALJ issued a ruling and scoping memo (Scoping Memo) which ordered SCE to provide additional testimony to demonstrate the need for the El Casco Project and the infeasibility of alternatives, as discussed below in Section 6.10. SCE served such additional testimony on April 11, 2008, identified herein as Exhibit 1. The protestants were granted an opportunity to serve responsive testimony. A group of protestants representing themselves as Citizens of Sun Lake Country Club served responsive testimony on April 29, 2008, identified herein as Exhibit 2.3 No party filed a request for evidentiary hearings, and pursuant to the Scoping Memo, no hearing was held.
3 One of these residents, Marvin Friedman, had previously been granted party status, whilst the other signatories were on the Information Only service list. Therefore, we shall treat the party as Citizens of Sun Lake Country Club with Mr. Friedman as the designated representative for purposes of service.