9. Limited Service of Applications for Rehearing

By D.01-08-018, we limited service of comments on the Category M draft decision. We did this because requiring a party filing a comment to serve that comment on nearly 10,000 other parties would be unreasonably burdensome, and provide little benefit. We do the same for applications for rehearing of this order.

That is, a party seeking rehearing of this order must apply for rehearing within 30 days.¹³ (Public Utilities Code Section 1731(b).) The application for rehearing must be filed and served. (Rule 85 of the Commission's Rules of Practice and Procedure.) Service must be on all parties to the proceeding. (Rule 85.) We may, however, liberally construe our rules to secure just, speedy and inexpensive determination of the issues presented. (Rule 87.)

Service of an application for rehearing in this proceeding would require service of a copy on nearly 10,000 parties. That is unreasonable. Therefore, we limit service of applications for rehearing to only the applicant's serving utility (e.g., PG&E, SCE or SDG&E) and the following persons at the Commission: Commissioner Wood, General Counsel Cohen, ALJ Mattson, ALJ Galvin, Jonathan Lakritz, and Laura Martin.