¹ Some utilities have indicated that a significant amount of time and money would be needed to adjust their accounting systems to identify the costs associated with various, non-energy related services. Sufficient data may not exist for 1/1/98 rollout of non-energy related services.

² Interaction with Subgroup C required to determine appropriate technologies for data exchange. Study will need to continue beyond 8/30/96.

³ If third-party billing were to proceed, some alternative mechanism would need to be established for customer notification of possible regulated service options and legal notice. It's unclear whether a third-party bill would offer the insert option to the UDC or consumer groups like TURN.

⁴ If an aggregator no longer provides its services to an individual, it may be problematic for another aggregator rather than the UDC to assume that role and bill the customer correctly since the customer records already reside at the UDC.

⁵ Decision on degree of unbundling will come in subsequent unbundling hearing.

⁶ Issues regarding consumer protection are taken up by Subgroup D in Section ???

⁷ The Unbundling Group is attempting to identify any saving that might be achieved by reducing the number of customers being billed for particular services. Currently that group is listing the activities associated with different broad functions such as billing. Their filing and findings won't be due until November 15, 1996.