6. Reduction of Comment Period

Commission Rule 14.3 authorizes parties to submit comments on a proposed decision within 20 days of its service on the parties, and allows reply comments within five days later. Consistent with Rule 14.6(c)(2) and due to the all-party nature of the adopted Agreement, we will shorten the initial comment period to 10 days. We allow three days for reply comments.

Comments were received from San Jose on July 5, 2012. The comments argued that the decision should be modified to authorize the company to implement revised rates in accordance with the decision as of September 1, 2012. By that time, rate changes made pursuant to Advice Letters 438 and 439 will have been fully implemented before the company renders any bills reflecting the change of rates pursuant to this decision. Accordingly, the following new ordering paragraph is added to the decision:

San Jose Water Company shall file a Tier 1 advice letter to implement revised rates consistent with the capital costs and capital structure approved herein to be effective as of September 1, 2012.