ALJ/AES/MOD-POD/avs Mailed 4/28/2006

Decision 06-04-047 April 27, 2006

BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

California Alliance for Utility Safety and Education, Complainant, vs. San Diego Gas and Electric Company and the City of San Diego, Defendants.

Case 04-12-012 (Filed December 20, 2004)

Harold Tyvoll, for California Alliance for Utility
Safety and Education, complainant.

Kelly M. Morton, for San Diego Gas &
Electric Company, defendant.

OPINION DISMISSING COMPLAINT

1. Summary

We find that, in planning and constructing the 30th Street 138 kilovolt (kV) underground conversion project in San Diego (Undergrounding Project), defendant San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) did not comply with the mandates of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Pub. Res. Code § 21000 et seq., and General Order (GO) 131-B. Since the Undergrounding Project has already been built, however, we will not now require SDG&E to take any remedial steps with respect to the requirements of GO 131-D or CEQA for the Undergrounding Project. We also find that SDG&E complied with the requirements of Decision (D.) 93-11-013 regarding no-cost and low-cost measures to mitigate the impact of electromagnetic fields (EMF) in its construction of the Undergrounding Project.