FYI.  It's ugly and disappointing.  Good luck getting Sempra interested in
making changes to it.
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:  Cherry, Brian
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 10:38 AM
> To: Cherry, Brian; Niven, Andrew (Law); Campbell, Benjamin; McLafferty,
> Daniel; Thomas, Dan (CGT Dir); Anderson, David W (Law); Hapner, Dede; Gee,
> Dennis; Petersen, Donald; Lindh, Frank (Law); Jefferson, Thomas;
> Bellenger, Geoffrey; Clavier, George; Reidenbach, Michael (Law); Miller,
> Jerry; Armato, John P; Clarke, John; Ernst, Kevin; Johnson, Kirk; Buchner,
> Les; Guliasi, Les; Lieu, Lisa; Jordan, Lise (Law); Huffman, Mark (Law);
> Katz, Michael; Patel, Neha; Golden, Patrick (Law); Sivley, Paul;
> Litteneker, Randall (Law); Williams, Ray; Hall, Rich; Boschee, Rodney;
> Burns, Sandra; Dickinson, Sandy L; Halverson, Shaun E; Malekos, Shelly;
> Tartaglia, Stuart; Arnett, Todd; Berkovitz, Trista
> Subject: RE: SoCalGas Comprehensive Gas Settlement
>
> Attached is the complete version of the Proposed Decision.
>
>  <<GIR PD.doc>>
>
>  -----Original Message-----
> From:  Cherry, Brian
> Sent: Monday, November 27, 2000 8:34 AM
> To: Andrew Niven; Benjamin Campbell; Dan McLafferty; Dan Thomas; David
> Anderson; Dede Hapner; Dennis Gee; Donald Petersen; Frank Lindh; G
> Jefferson; Geoffrey Bellenger; George Clavier; J Reidenbach; Jerry Miller;
> John Armato; John Clarke; Kevin Ernst; Kirk Johnson; Les Buchner; Les
> Guliasi; Lisa Lieu; Lise Jordan; Mark Huffman; Michael Katz; Neha Patel;
> Patrick Golden; Paul Sivley; Randall Litteneker; Ray Williams; Richard
> Hall; Rodney Boschee; Sandra Burns; Sandy Dickinson; Shaun Halverson;
> Shelly Malekos; Stuart Tartaglia; Todd Arnett; Trista Berkovitz
> Subject: SoCalGas Comprehensive Gas Settlement
>
> The Commission has issued ALJ Biren's Proposed Decision in the Natural Gas
> Strategy, adopting the Interim Settlement (IS) with some modifications and
> rejecting SoCalGas' Comprehensive Settlement Agreement (CSA) and SCGC's
> Post-Interim Proposal (PIP).  To our utility brethren in southern
> California, the PD is somewhat of a disappointment, especially coming from
> Assigned Commissioner Bilas.  The PD states that the Commission is not yet
> ready to act on further "promising options" at this time "..in light of
> energy market conditions...and choose instead to approve the most modest
> proposal, the IS, with some modifications".   Clearly Commissioner Bilas,
> who in February 2000 chastised parties as not going far enough when they
> presented him with the IS and who personally pushed hard for a southern
> California Gas Accord (the CSA),  has changed his position in these
> politically challenged times.   Given that Bilas is the one issuing this
> PD, the likelihood of an alternate being prepared adopting either the CSA
> or the PIP is not good.   We will also need to evaluate the impact this
> decision will have on our Gas II negotiations.
>
> In summary, the PD:
>
> 1) eliminates SoCalGas' windowing process and replaces it with a daily
> physical calculation of available capacities.
> 2) institutes OFO procedures
> 3) establishes Hector Road as a formal receipt point
> 4) provides an OFO forum
> 5) creates pools on SoCalGas' system
> 6) retains 10% balancing with modifications
> 7) maintains winter balancing rules for the core
> 8) allows for some additional unbundled storage options
> 9) unbundles non-reliability storage
> 10) provides for $3.5 MM in IT systems cost recovery
> 11) unbundles to a certain degree core interstate capacity from rates
> 12) eliminates cores 10% ITCS responsibility
> 13) reduces core aggregation threshold
>
> The complete PD is over 150 pages long and should be available on the CPUC
> web site later today.  I'll circulate hard copies as soon as they are
> available.

 - GIR PD.doc