8. Award

As set forth in the table below, we award TURN $132,017.33:

Cost Category

Year

Time (hours)

Rate ($/hour)

Compensation

Haley Goodson

2005

102.2

$190.00

$ 19,418.00

 

2006

34

$200.00

$ 6,800.00

 

2006

20

$100.00*

$ 2,000.00

         

Robert Finkelstein

2006

2

$202.50*

$ 405.00

 

2007

5

$217.50*

$ 1,087.50

Cynthia K. Mitchell

2004

0

0

0

 

2005

576.3

$140.00

$ 80,682.00

 

2006

149.60

$140.00

$ 20,944.00

Mitchell's Expenses

     

$ 649.53

Other Direct Expenses

     

$ 31.30

TOTAL

     

$132,017.33

* Time spent on compensation request.

Consistent with previous Commission decisions, we order that interest be paid on the award amount (at the rate earned on prime, three-month commercial paper, as reported in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15) commencing on August 29, 2006, the 75th day after TURN filed its compensation request, and continuing until full payment of the award is made.

We direct PG&E, SCE, and SoCalGas to allocate payment responsibility among themselves based upon their California-jurisdictional gas and electric revenues for the 2005 calendar year, to reflect the year in which the proceeding was primarily litigated. Although TURN worked a limited number of hours on statewide PAG and PRG matters, the majority of its work was directed at PG&E and SCE/SoCalGas energy efficiency portfolios. It is reasonable for these three utilities to share the cost.

Commission staff may audit TURN's records related to the award and TURN must make and retain adequate accounting and other documentation to support all claims for intervenor compensation. TURN's records should identify specific issues for which it requested compensation, the actual time spent by each employee or consultant, the applicable hourly rates, fees paid to consultants, and any other costs for which compensation was claimed.

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