Award

As set forth in the table below, we award Latino Issues Forum $165,324.00.

Advocate	Year	Rate		Hours	Total
Susan Brown	2001	$380.00		26.5	$ 10,070.00
Brown	2002	$380.00		281.5	$106,970.00
Brown	2003	$380.00		2.0	$ 760.00
Brown	2004	$390.00		7.0	$ 2,730.00
Enrique Gallardo	2001	$230.00		31.0	$ 7,130.00
Gallardo	2002	$255.00		110.5	$ 28,177.50
Gallardo	2003	$265.00		5.0	$ 1,325.00
Gallardo	2004	$275.00		7.5	$ 2,062.00
Viola Gonzales	2002	$310.00		13.5	$ 4,185.00
		Other Costs			$ 1,914.00
			Total		$165,324.00

Consistent with previous Commission decisions, we will 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 the 75th day after Latino Issues Forum filed its compensation request and continuing until full payment of the award is made.

We direct PG&E, SDG&E, and SCE to allocate payment responsibility among themselves based upon their California-jurisdictional electric revenues for the 2002 calendar year, to reflect the year in which the proceeding was primarily litigated. Mountain Utilities' request to be exempted from paying a proportionate share of the award is reasonable, since the program established in D.04-02-057 does not apply to its customers. Similarly, we exempt all smaller electric utilities.

We remind all intervenors that Commission staff may audit their records related to this award and that intervenors must make and retain adequate accounting and other documentation to support all claims for intervenor compensation. Latino Issues Forum's records should identify specific issues for which it requested compensation, the actual time spent by each employee, the applicable hourly rate, fees paid to consultants, and any other costs for which compensation was claimed.