3. Transactions Subject to This Proceeding

On April 6, 2001, PG&E filed for bankruptcy. Under the Bankruptcy Code, PG&E was required to compile a list of all executory contracts, including leases and licenses of its property, and to decide whether to assume or reject each contract. PG&E assigned a team of employees to locate and identify all its executory contracts. After more than a year of effort, the team compiled a 500-page list of these contracts. In order to compile the list, PG&E required all land agents in local offices to search for and identify any and all leases or licenses of property in their local areas.

PG&E states that while the great majority of leases and licenses were included in PG&E's central database, it became clear that others had been filed in local offices without being entered in the central database. As a result, PG&E identified additional transactions that should have been included in A.00-06-010. Accordingly, PG&E has filed this application, A.03-05-012, seeking approval of the recently identified transactions along with the previously identified leases and licenses involving hydro-generation lands.

The 256 transactions for which approval is sought are set forth in Exhibit A of this decision. Also included in Exhibit A are the exemptions to environmental assessment that PG&E asserts are applicable to most of the transactions. PG&E asserts that environmental review either has taken place or does not apply to the other transactions.