Subject: definitions

To:	 	Drafters of the DAWG Report
From:		Mike Yamada
		LADWP
Date: 		July 15, 1996

Differentiation between "investor-owned utilities", "municipal utilities" and 
"utilities" in the DAWG Report

This is a request that all DAWG teams A, B, C & D authors and the Full DAWG editing team 
clearly identify the market participants to which the rules of each option applies.  
Because the words "utility", "utilities", "utility distribution company", "utility 
distribution companies", UDC and UDCs can be interpreted to include both 
Commission-jurisdictional utilities (investor-owned utilities or IOUs) and 
municipally-owned utilities, I suggest that, in the DAWG team A, B, C & D and the final 
DAWG report submitted to the Commission, the language used be specific as to whom those 
words apply.  Wherever the report refers to Commission-jurisdictional utility or 
utilities, the acronyms IOU or IOUs be used instead of the generic "utility" or 
"utilities", respectively.  Further, wherever the report refers to a 
Commission-jurisdictional utility distribution company or companies, they should be 
referred to as "IOU UDC" or "IOU UDCs".  Alternatively, the acronyms "UDC" and "UDCs" 
could be defined in the glossary as to mean Commission-jurisdictional utility 
distribution company or companies.  Similarly, whenever the report refers to a public 
power utility or utilities, I recommend that the words "municipal utility" or "municipal 
utilities" be used.  Only in those cases where both IOUs and public power utilities are 
both involved should the generic "utility" or "utilities" be used in the report.  This 
will go a long way to eliminating any ambiguity as to whom the report is referring when 
the words "utility", "utilities", "utility distribution company", "utility distribution 
companies", UDC and UDCs are used.

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