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(3) Staff shall notify all Parties and Contested Hearing Participants of the list of Contested Hearing <br />Participants prior to May 31St. Thereafter, Parties shall also mail their prehearing statements and <br />any other documents to Contested Hearing Participants. <br />5n. Prehearinct Conference. <br />(1) The Board will designate a Hearing Officer, who shall schedule and preside over prehearing <br />conferences and assist the Parties with procedural matters, such as setting prehearing <br />conferences and adjusting deadlines and schedules to further the Parties' settlement efforts or for <br />other good cause shown. All prehearing conferences will be scheduled and held prior to the July <br />Board meeting. <br />(2) On or before five working days before the prehearing conference, each Party shall file 25 copies <br />of its prehearing statement with the Board, and provide an electronic version when possible. The <br />prehearing statement shall identify all exhibits, engineering data, biological data and reports or <br />other information that the Party will rely upon at the hearing and shall contain: <br />(a) A specific statement of the factual and legal claims asserted (issues to be resolved) and <br />the legal basis upon which the Party will rely; <br />(b) Copies of all exhibits to be introduced at the hearing; <br />(c) A list of witnesses to be called and a brief description of their testimony; <br />(d) Any alternative proposal to the proposed ISF appropriation; <br />(e) All written testimony to be offered into evidence at the hearing; <br />and <br />(f) Any legal memoranda. <br />Each Party shall deliver a copy of its prehearing statement to all other Parties, Contested Hearing <br />Participants, the Hearing Officer and directly to the Assistant Attomeys General representing Staff <br />and the Board five working days before the prehearing conference. The Board will not consider <br />information, other than rebuttal statements and testimony provided at the hearing pursuant to <br />Rule 5p.(2), submitted by the Parties after this deadline except for good cause shown or as <br />agreed upon by the Parties. <br />(3) Any Contested Hearing Participant may also submit written comments 5 working days prior to the <br />prehearing conference. Contested Hearing Participants who submit written comments for the <br />Board's consideration shall provide 25 copies to the Board, and a copy to all other Contested <br />Hearing Participants, Parties, the Hearing Officer and the Assistant Attomeys General <br />representing Staff and Board, and provide an electronic version when possible. <br />(4) The prehearing conference will afford the Parties the opportunity to address such issues as time <br />available for each Parry at the hearing, avoiding presentation of duplicative information, <br />consolidation of concerns, etc. The Parties may formulate stipulations respecting the issues to be <br />raised, witnesses and exhibits to be presented, and/or any other matters which may be agreed to <br />or admitted by the Parties. At the prehearing conference, the Parties shall make known any <br />objections to the procedures or evidence that they may raise at the hearing unless such <br />objections could not have been reasonably determined at that time. <br />(5) August 15'h, or the first business day thereafter, is the last day for submission of written rebuttal <br />statements, including testimony, legal memoranda, and exhibits. Twenty-five copies of such <br />