VIII. Motion by TURN

On June 1, 2001 TURN filed a Motion for Clarification and for Reconsideration of the April 17, 2001 Assigned Commissioner's Ruling and Scoping Memo (TURN Motion). TURN holds that the Scoping Memo is "internally ambiguous and inconsistent and makes moot TURN's short term proposal for the Excess Core Storage Program." TURN, in particular, takes exception to the Scoping Memo's refusal to expand the proceeding to consider its proposal.

SoCalGas responds to the TURN motion noting that the ACR requires no clarification and that this proceeding is not appropriate for considering TURN's proposal. Southern California Generation (SCG) further notes that TURN's storage proposal addresses a problem that does not exist. SCG coalition similarly argues that this is not appropriate for considering TURN's proposal and that events including the passage of time, have rendered TURN's proposal moot.

As today's decision makes clear, TURN's proposal cannot reasonably be characterized as a "short-term" proposal. In particular, there is nothing that SoCal Gas can do today to increase the injection of gas. Thus, we cannot consider TURN's proposal in this proceeding without expanding the scope of the proceeding beyond its current focus on short-term measures. We decline to expand the score of this proceeding.

We therefore deny TURN's motion for clarification and reconsideration of our scoping ruling.