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California Regulators Reopen San Onofre Settlement

May 12, 2016

California regulators said Monday they will re-examine a settlement that made consumers responsible for covering some $3.3 billion in costs for closing the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

The Public Utilities Commission said parties involved in the case can submit briefs commenting on whether the deal reached in 2014 should be amended or is “still reasonable,” legal and in the public interest.

The decision by a commissioner and a PUC administrative law judge also bars the parties from having private communications with PUC “decision-makers” and advisers to commissioners.

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