Illinois Administrative Code › Title 83 - PUBLIC UTILITIES › Part 288 - UTILITY RATE CASE EXPENSE AND CONSUMER INTERVENOR COMPENSATION FUND › Subpart B - RATE CASE EXPENSE › Section 288.100 - Required Support for Compensation Costs

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
a) A
				public utility subject to this Part shall, upon request during discovery, make
				information available to parties of record to assist them in developing a
				recommended amount of rate case expense and to assist the Commission in
				assessing the justness and reasonableness of amounts paid to compensate all
				persons covered by Section 288.10. This information shall include, but not be
				limited to, the following:
1) Facts and
				documentation describing the terms of the engagement between the public utility
				and outside counsel/support staff and the public utility and outside technical
				experts/support staff that include the nature of the services to be provided,
				by whom the services would be provided, and the hourly rates to be charged. In
				a flat fee contract, this documentation shall include the estimated hourly rate
				charged for work of similar nature or some other unit of time
				measurement.
2) For services
				provided, including, but not limited to, under an hourly rate contract, a flat
				fee contract, or a contract with a not-to-exceed provision, invoices disclosing
				time entries for each outside counsel/support staff that clearly indicate:
A) a description of the services
				provided;
B) by whom the services
				were provided;
C) the time spent
				providing the services on a daily basis;
D) the applicable hourly rate, or some other
				unit of time measurement, charged by the persons providing the services;
				and
E) For outside counsel and
				their support staff, the applicable codes from the American Bar Association's
				Uniform Task-Based Management System Litigation Code Set or a similar
				standardized billing system, if and to the extent that the outside
				counsel/support staff use that coding system in their billing
				invoices.
3) For
				services provided under an hourly rate contract, including, but not limited to,
				a contract with a not-to-exceed provision, invoices or other documents
				disclosing time entries for each outside technical expert/support staff that
				clearly indicates:
A) a description of the
				services provided;
B) by whom the
				services were provided;
C) the time
				spent providing the services on a daily basis;
D) the hourly rate charged, or some other
				unit of time measurement.
4) For services provided under a flat fee
				contract, all invoices provided by the outside counsel/support staff or outside
				technical expert/support staff to the public utility that are performed under
				the contract, as well as any existing invoices or documentation disclosing time
				entries and summaries of any proposals reviewed before the selection for
				service.
5) For a flat fee
				contract, documents created or reviewed by the public utility in considering
				the reasonableness of the contracted fee, including any fee-related
				calculations that the public utility performed or reviewed before executing the
				contract. This includes the estimated hourly rate that would be charged in an
				hourly rate contract and the presumed or estimated number of hours to be
				worked.
6) For services provided by
				utility affiliate counsel/support staff and utility affiliate technical
				experts/support staff, documentation that clearly indicates:
A) a description of the services
				provided;
B) the name and title of
				the persons providing the services;
C) the time spent providing the services on a
				daily basis; and
D) the amounts and
				rates charged, excluding incentive compensation costs.