4. Contributions of Other Parties

In a proceeding involving multiple participants, it is often impossible to completely avoid some duplication of the work of other parties. The intervenor compensation statutes allow the Commission to award full compensation even where a party's participation has overlapped in part with showings made by other parties (§ 1802.5), if that participation materially supplemented, complemented or contributed to the presentation of another party, including the Commission staff.

Referring to NRDC's contributions to D.08-07-047, we find that due to NRDC's status as the only main environmental group that participated during the whole length of this proceeding, it played an important and unique role in the process leading to D.08-07-047.

As to the PRG process, we emphasize that NRDC was one of the two authors of the PRG Report, filed on September 12, 2008, as directed by D.07-10-032, in A.08-07-021 et al. NRDC was the only non-financially interested stakeholder that participated in the PRG process across all IOU service territories. We find NRDC's award should not be reduced for duplication of effort with other parties.