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Puc staff to work with the local power to develop the best cca that is possible. Thank you. Thank you very much. And next speaker please. Good afternoon folks. Alwine from the Clean Energy Alliance and i have the great opportunity to be chairing those stakeholder meetings that take place, fairly contentious of recent time. I wanted to address two questions quickly. One is a question of the rates and the high rates that i think everybody concerned about it at roll out time which according to the proposals that have been put before the rate fairness board are roughly somewhere depending on your ...

Supervisor campos would not make a huge difference in those rates. I mean looking at the numbers is that the rate recovery is roughly in the order of 10 of the rates themselves, and so if you shave a little bit off of the rate recovery its 10 of a very big number so we need to have a more aggressive approach i think. Its important to do that but we need a more aggressive approach. That wont quite hit it. And the other thing i wanted to mention is that the work that local power has done is first of all its preliminary and secondly its really a framework for talking through all the issues and it...

For San Francisco residents, so i would like the commission to send a strong message that for puc staff to work with the local power to develop the best cca that is possible. Thank you. Thank you very much. And next speaker please. Good afternoon folks. Alwine from the Clean Energy Alliance and i have the great opportunity to be chairing those stakeholder meetings that take place, fairly contentious of recent time. I wanted to address two questions quickly. One is a question of the rates and the high rates that i think everybody concerned about it at roll out time which according to the propos...

That are necessary to respond to the explosions. I am troubled by the prospect of thousands or maybe tens of thousands of these facilities operated under the radar screen in there used to be a sense of urgency on this issue at all levels. It is essential between osha and dhs and the coast guard and state regulators and there has to be enough Information Available to identify those facilities that could pose a risk. That information needs to be shared. The next challenge is to ensure that dhs analyzes the facilities that provide information and gao has told us that when it comes to assessing an...

The other thing i wanted to mention is that the work that local power has done is first of all its preliminary and secondly its really a framework for talking through all the issues and its fairly complex as everyone who has encountered it has recognized and there are a lot of assumptions made that have a lot of implications in the way things turn out but its a framework where we held the discussion and pull out the issues of different approaches, different scenarios and what not, and thats been a fruitful discussion to have, and we would like lafco to urge that that kind of discussion continu...