BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

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1 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In Attendance: COMMISSIONER MICHAEL PICKER ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE DARCIE HOUCK, presiding Order Instituting Investigation on the Commission s Own Motion into the Rates, Operations, Practices, Services and Facilities of Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company Associated with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units and. And Related Matters. STATUS CONFERENCE Investigation -0-0 Application CONSOLIDATED Application -0-0 Application -0-0 REPORTER'S TRANSCRIPT Los Angeles, California May, 0 Pages - 0 Volume - Reported by: Andrea Ross, CSR No.

2 0 0 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA MAY, 0-0:00 A.M. * * * * * ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGE HOUCK: On the record. The Commission will come to order. This is the time and place set for a Status Conference in I.-0-0, the Order Instituting Investigation on the Commission's own motion into the rates, operations, practices, services, and facilities of Southern California Edison Company and San Diego Gas and Electric Company associated with the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station Units and. I am Administrative Law Judge Darcie Houck, and to my left is President Michael Picker, the assigned Commissioner for this proceeding. To ensure we have an accurate record, we have a court reporter here that's going to take down everything that's said today. Please speak slowly and clearly and state your name before you speak so that the court reporter is able to take down an accurate and clear record of today's proceeding. The purpose of today's proceeding is to discuss the status of the proceeding, next

3 0 0 steps, and we will also discuss the public participation hearing set for this evening. If there are no further questions, we will conclude the status conference after that. I am going to turn the mic over to President Picker to make an opening statement. COMMISSIONER PICKER: I really don't have anything to add, Your Honor. ALJ HOUCK: Thank you. We will now go ahead and take party appearances and then discuss the status of the proceeding including the most present filings from last week. We will start over here. MR. MOLDAVSKY: Thank you, Your Honor. Ed Moldavsky, counsel for ORA. MR. GEESMAN: John Geesman representing the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility. MR. WEISSMANN: Good morning. Henry Weissmann for Southern California Edison Company. MR. FREEDMAN: Matt Freedman representing the Utility Reform Network. MR. LUTZ: Raymond Lutz with Citizens Oversight. MS. SALUSTRO: Emma Salustro for San Diego Gas and Electric. MS. SHERIFF: Nora Sheriff, The

4 0 0 California Large Energy Consumers Association or CLECA. MS. SEVERSON: Maria Severson and Mike Aguirre for Ruth Hendricks. MS. MERRIGAN: Jean Merrigan for Women's Energy Matters. MR. TONEY: Mark Toney, the Utility Reform Network. MR. NICHOLS: Ron Nichols, Southern California Edison. MR. DOUGLASS: Daniel Douglass for the Direct Access Customer Coalition and the Alliance for Retail Energy Markets. ALJ HOUCK: Are there any other parties here? (No response. ALJ HOUCK: So our first item, the status of the proceeding. We have reviewed the additional information that was submitted by the parties on April th by way of a stipulation of undisputed facts and we do believe the factual record is sufficient to move forward and that we will be able to vacate the hearings currently set for May rd and th. Do the parties have any comments or questions about that? MR. MOLDAVSKY: No, Your Honor.

5 0 0 ALJ HOUCK: Great. We can move on now to the public participation hearings set for this evening. We again want to reiterate that the public participation hearing is being set so that the Commission can hear from the public. The parties in the proceeding have opportunities to present their case through the filings, the status conferences, and other forums in the proceeding over the number of years that the proceeding has been active. So tonight's hearing is to give the public an opportunity to give their opinion or comment on the proposed settlement, the proceeding, and how they would like to see the Commission move forward or put any questions that they have on the record. At the last status conference, we did allow for the settling parties by way of Southern California Edison to make a brief presentation just to outline the differences between the settlement that's currently in effect and the proposed settlement, given the unique circumstances of this case and what's put before us. So we will allow for that time at the beginning of the hearing, and then we

6 0 0 will move into hearing from any elected officials that are present at the hearing and the public. So are there any questions about the public participation hearing for this evening? (No response. ALJ HOUCK: Are there any questions, hearing none, about any other matters at this point? We will consider the comments that are provided this evening at the public participation hearing. If we need any additional information from the parties by way of filing, we will request that quickly, but otherwise, our plan is to move forward with drafting a proposed decision and have that issued as quickly as possible. Mr. Freedman and then Mr. Weissmann. MR. FREEDMAN: We may have the same question, Your Honor, which is does that mean that the briefing dates in the schedule are going to be removed from the calendar or they will remain? ALJ HOUCK: At this point we've already briefed the one issue that Public Watchdogs was granted limited party status, so unless the parties have a specific issue they would

7 0 0 like to brief, we can vacate the briefing dates as well. MR. WEISSMANN: I was just going to ask if we could be off the record for just a moment if I could confer, have a brief conference with some of the parties. ALJ HOUCK: Yes, we can go off the record. (Off the record. ALJ HOUCK: We can go back on the record. MR. WEISSMANN: Thank you, Your Honor. Henry Weissmann for Southern California Edison Company. As far as tonight's public participation hearing, we understand that Edison, Mr. Nichols, will be making the initial remarks. My question is if there are questions that arise in the course of the evening from members of the public, would it be permitted for the other settling parties who will be in attendance to respond to those questions depending on their nature? ALJ HOUCK: What we would like to do is we will, as the one slide indicates the names of the settling parties, we will, either before or after the presentation, ask the settling parties to stand up so that everyone

8 0 0 can see who is there. To the extent that there are questions from the public during the comment period, we will note those for the record and we will ask those individuals if they want to hear more information from any of the settling parties that they can do so either at a break, depending on how many people we have or afterwards, but we will make sure the settling parties can waive or identify themselves so they know who to go and talk to. And if they want to submit additional comment after talking with the settling parties, then they can do that in writing either by letter or . MR. WEISSMANN: I see. So it's not currently contemplated that the other settling parties will speak this evening? ALJ HOUCK: No. It's just we wanted to set the stage for showing the comparison between the settlement that's currently in effect and the one that's being proposed and have that put out there. MR. DOUGLASS: Your Honor, Dan Douglass here. I wanted to make a clarification for the record which is that my appearance here today is solely on behalf of the Direct

9 0 0 Access Customer Coalition, a signatory to the settlement. I mistakenly mentioned another client on whose behalf I frequently appear jointly with it and the Direct Access Customer Coalition. ALJ HOUCK: Thank you. Mr. Moldavsky? MR. MOLDAVSKY: At the PPH, it's possible that not all parties can attend. Is attendance mandatory? ALJ HOUCK: Attendance is not mandatory. The settling parties will be listed into the record. ORA will not be present? MR. MOLDAVSKY: It may be difficult. We may attend, but it may be difficult for us to. ALJ HOUCK: Okay. There's a number of settling parties there that will be able to address anything that comes up. Any other questions? (No response. ALJ HOUCK: Okay, then we will see most of you at six o'clock this evening and we are adjourned. (Whereupon, at the hour of 0:0 a.m., this matter having been concluded, the Commission then adjourned.

10 0 BEFORE THE PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA CERTIFICATION OF TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDING I, Andrea L. Ross, Certified Shorthand Reporter No., in and for the State of California, do hereby certify that the pages of this transcript prepared by me comprise a full, true, and correct transcript of the testimony and proceedings held in this matter on MAY, 0. I further certify that I have no interest in the events of the matter or the outcome of the proceeding. EXECUTED this rd Day of MAY, 0. Andrea L. Ross CSR No.