6. Service of This Ruling; Eligibility to File Comments and Participate in Oral Argument

This ruling will be filed on the service list established to date for this proceeding and also on the service list for Rulemaking (R.)97-04-011 and R.03-08-019, the rulemakings (now closed) in which the Commission adopted the current versions, respectively, of the Affiliates Transaction Rules and GO 77-L. To be eligible to file comments in this proceeding, R.05-10-030, or thereafter to participate in oral argument, a person or entity must be listed as an Appearance on the service list for this proceeding, or must become an Appearance. Likewise, to receive further service for the purposes of monitoring this proceeding, a person or entity must be listed in the State Service or Information Only sections of the service list for this proceeding or must ask to be added to the service list.

To be added to any category of the service list for this proceeding, please follow the steps set forth in Ordering Paragraph 4 by July 14, 2006. All comments on the proposed rules attached to today's order must be filed in this proceeding, and served on the current service list for this proceeding, as of the date service is undertaken. Commission service lists, updated on an ongoing basis, are available from the Commission's website: www.cpuc.ca.gov.

As provided for in the OIR, service of all documents is to be made by electronic means and will be used in lieu of paper mail when an electronic address has been provided. (See Rule 2.3(a) and Rule 2.3.1 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.) Assigned Commissioner Geoffrey F. Brown (gfb@cpuc.ca.gov) and Administrative Law Judge Jean Vieth (xjv@cpuc.ca.gov) are to be served electronically at the email addresses indicated. Any party on the service list who has not provided an electronic mail address shall serve and take service by way of paper mail. (See Rule 2.3(a) of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.)