Extension of Time

DRA requests a two-week delay to serve testimony on tax issues from April 7 to April 21, 2006.⁶ We will grant this extension and also allow Edison to serve rebuttal, to this testimony only, on May 10, 2006.

IT IS RULED that:

1. Southern California Edison Company (Edison) shall immediately provide copies of the income tax forms as described herein to the Division of Ratepayer Advocates (DRA).

2. DRA shall treat the information as confidential, as provided by Code § 583 and shall ensure there is no public disclosure of the materials in testimony - or any other means - unless Edison consents to publication following a meet and confer session, or either the Assigned Commissioner or the Commission authorizes its disclosure.

3. DRA may serve testimony on tax issues on April 5, 2006 and Edison may serve rebuttal on that testimony only on May 10, 2006.

Dated February 9, 2006, at San Francisco, California.

		/s/ DOUGLAS M. LONG
		Douglas M. Long Administrative Law Judge

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

I certify that I have by mail this day served a true copy of the original attached Administrative Law Judge's Ruling on the Division of Ratepayer Advocates' Motion to Compel on all parties of record in this proceeding or their attorneys of record.

Dated February 9, 2006, at San Francisco, California.

/s/ FANNIE SID

Fannie Sid

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.

⁶ Interested parties are to serve testimony on April 7, 2006. See, Scoping Memo, dated January 18, 2006.