ALJ/GEW/hl2 Mailed 7/5/2005

Decision 05-06-053 June 30, 2005

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

Order Instituting Rulemaking to Revise Commission General Order Numbers 95 and 128.

Rulemaking 01-10-001 (Filed October 2, 2001)

OPINION GRANTING INTERVENOR COMPENSATION

TO WILLIAM ADAMS FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO DECISION 05-01-030

This decision awards $35,678 to William Adams in compensation for his contribution to Decision (D.) 05-01-030. This represents a decrease of $59,505 from the amount requested.

1. Background

The Commission issued this Order Instituting Rulemaking (R.) 01-10-001 to revise General Order (GO) 95 and GO 128, which govern, respectively, the construction of overhead and underground supply and communications systems. The Commission's Consumer Protection and Safety Division (CPSD), industry representatives, labor organizations and the public participated in 16 months of twice-monthly two- and three-day public workshops throughout California. A total of 63 proposed revisions to existing rules were considered. Of these, 40 revisions were supported by consensus of the workshop participants; 15 were withdrawn, and eight were in dispute. In D.05-01-030, the Commission adopted the consensus changes, noted the withdrawn proposals, resolved seven of the eight disputed change proposals, and deferred consideration of one disputed proposal to a later proceeding (R.05-02-023).

William Adams (Adams), who retired from the Commission 14 years ago after 22 years of experience as a Commission inspector and accident investigator, participated in virtually all of the workshop meetings that produced the decision in this proceeding. He requests $95,183 for his contributions to D.05-01-030.