Timeliness of Filing Notice for Intervenor Compensation
Under § 1804(a)(1), "[a] customer who intends to seek an award under this article shall, within 30 days after the prehearing conference is held, file and serve on all parties to the proceeding a notice of intent to claim compensation." A first Prehearing Conference (PHC-1) was held in San Francisco, California, on
February 7, 2003.2 At that time the parties were unable to provide sufficient information on the availability of expert staff to allow the ALJ to set a schedule. Further, parties had not sufficiently reviewed the applications to provide an informed view of the issues to be litigated in these consolidated proceedings. A second prehearing conference (PHC-2) was held on March 14, 2003. Local 483's Notice was filed 15 days later. Therefore, Local 483's Notice is timely filed under § 1804(a)(1).
2 Local 483 filed a petition to intervene in these proceedings on February 18, 2003 after PHC-1. It was placed on the consolidated service list as an interested party at PHC-1.
