Amended Applications
The issuance of the GIR, D.01-12-018, by the Commission on December 11, 2001, unbundling SoCalGas' backbone transmission and storage, necessitates that SoCalGas and SDG&E amend, for a second time, their BCAP applications. At the January 10, 2002, law and motion hearing, I ordered SoCalGas to file its amended application by March 4, 2002, and SDG&E to file its amended application by March 18, 2002.
At the December 4, 2001 PHC, I adopted the procedural schedule agreed to by the parties at a pre-PHC meet and confer. Pursuant to that schedule, hearings are to take place May 21 through June 14, 2002. ORA is to file its testimony by March 22, 2002. Understandably, ORA asked for a shift in the procedural schedule3.
Because the parties worked in good faith to design the original procedural schedule and to set aside four weeks for hearing, I am reluctant to suspend the entire hearing schedule at this time. Instead, I have ordered the parties to meet and confer to determine if they could shift the service dates for testimony so as to accommodate the March filing of the amended applications by the utilities, and still keep the established hearing dates.
I have been informed that the meet-and-confer session will take place no later than January 22, 2002. I direct parties to provide a status report to me at that time and I will then determine if the original hearing schedule can remain, with just a shift in the service of testimony dates, or if an entire new procedural schedule needs to be established.
Therefore, IT IS RULED that:
1. The motion of the Electric Generator Alliance to strike testimony on embedded cost-based allocation or, in the alternative, to remove such testimony to another phase or proceeding is denied.
2. The evidentiary hearing schedule of May 21 through June 14, 2002, is not suspended at this time. No later than January 22, 2002, parties are to meet and confer to determine if a shift in the filing dates for testimony will be sufficient to meet the needs of the parties' to respond to the March amendments to Biennial Cost Allocation Proceeding applications, and keep the established hearing schedule.
3. Parties shall provide the Administrative Law Judge with a status report by January 30, 2002.
Dated January 17, 2002, at San Francisco, California.
/s/ CAROL BROWN (by ang)
Carol Brown
Administrative Law Judge
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that I have by mail, and by electronic mail to the parties to which an electronic mail address has been provided, this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling Denying Motion of the Electric Generator Alliance to Strike Testimony on Embedded Cost-Based Allocation on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.
Dated January 17, 2002, at San Francisco, California.
/s/ JEANNIE CHANG
Jeannie Chang
NOTICE
Parties should notify the Process Office, Public Utilities Commission, 505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 2000, San Francisco, CA 94102, of any change of address to insure that they continue to receive documents. You must indicate the proceeding number on the service list on which your name appears.
3 ORA filed a motion to suspend the procedural schedule. The motion is not being ruled on at this time.
