7. Schedule

A PHC is set for February 28, 2006, at 10:00 a.m. in the Commission's Courtroom at the State Office Building, 505 Van Ness Boulevard, San Francisco, California 94102. At the PHC, the parties should be prepared to discuss the issues addressed in this order, as well as any issues raised in their pre and post workshop comments on the December 2nd ACR. PHC written statements are not requested at this time.

The preliminary schedule for the proceeding, with an initial scheduling emphasis on the review of the need for policies to support new generation is set forth below. The schedule will be discussed at, and further refined following, the PHC. This proceeding will conform to the statutory case management deadline for ratesetting matters, set forth in Pub. Util. Code § 1701.5, and the assigned Commissioner will provide more guidance on this point in the Scoping Memo to be issued following the PHC.