The OCC renewed its opposition to the layoffs, maintained that the companies should be required to prove that the layoffs would not jeopardize customers or employees, decried the prohibition of Union testimony and cross-examination of Company witnesses, and called for additional reporting, particularly of ASA and abandoned calls.

Assistant Attorney General John Wright respectfully disagreed with the DPUC's refusal to bar the layoffs, noted the contradictory Company testimnony in the recent race case and the current docket, questioned the corporate chatacter of the parent company, suggested service quality measures remain in effect for five years along with the imposition of additional SQMs such as odor complaint response time, ASA, and abandoned calls, and suggested establishing a baseline for the metrics required by the DPUC ordered reports by means of a six month delay of any workforce reduction.

The unions took exception to being denied party status, noted that participant status is not defined, stated that they are best able to expose Company prevarication, and decried the absence of reporting requirements for dispatchers and meter shop at both companies and the engineering technicians at CNG.

The Company's high priced lawyers predictably requested more time to file the reports ordered, decrease their frequency, and the opportunity at a Technical Medeting prior to the final decision to weasel out of some of the more difficult Orders. Despite its impact on safety and reliability of service, the lawyers took issue with the Department's jurisdiction over service work.