III. Procedural History
On March 8, 1999, RTC filed an Application for its first triennial review of its NRF. On April 19, 1999, the Office of Ratepayer Advocates (ORA) filed a Protest to RTC's Application.
On May 13, 1999, ORA filed a Motion to Consolidate the pending verification and non-regulated operations audit of RTC.
On June 14, 1999, in D.99-06-051, the Commission ordered ORA to file and serve the final audit report in this proceeding.
On September 27, 1999, ORA submitted its pre-filed testimony concerning RTC's NRF. On October 18, 1999, RTC submitted its pre-filed rebuttal testimony. The Commission held evidentiary hearings on November 1-2, 1999.
On January 3, 2000, ORA filed an audit report in this proceeding in accordance with D.99-06-051. Thereafter, on January 7, 2000, a second prehearing conference (PHC) was held to discuss the audit report, and to determine whether additional evidentiary hearings would be needed in light of the audit report. The assigned Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ruled that ORA would be permitted to submit additional testimony on the results of the audit report.
ORA submitted additional testimony on the audit report on February 9, 2000. ORA also submitted an errata to the audit report at that time.
On March 31, 2000, RTC submitted its rebuttal testimony. On April 3, 2000, ORA served both proprietary and non-proprietary versions of the audit report testimony.
On April 17-21, 2000, evidentiary hearings were held on the audit. Opening briefs were filed by ORA and RTC on May 22, 2000. Reply briefs were filed on June 20, 2000, whereupon the proceeding was submitted.
