Project numbers have been assigned to the legislation and to individual rules now in development. PUC executives selected several staff members to act as transition coordinators. These transition coordinators identified projects and rulemakings and drafted general timetables. Much of this information, including implementation schedules for each of the four projects, is posted on the PUC's home page at the address given above. The schedules provide timelines, as well as workload analyses, questions for workshops, key staff members and task processes.
Most parties are already familiar with traditional rulemaking.
In the strawman approach, Commission staff will draft the initial rule proposal and interested parties will critique the product and work together to produce a jointly acceptable rule. The task force process uses the participation of all parties to develop a draft rule. In this approach, interested parties will be involved from the beginning in creating an acceptable product. Many task forces are already under way, and the Commission urges all interested parties to participate. To reduce the amount of travel for participants and in acknowledgement of the budget constraints of some interested parties, the Commission is looking for innovative ways to allow all interested parties to participate without excessive costs.