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<br />AMS surcharge. CenterPoint Houston used January 1,2009 through March 31, 2010 as the <br /> <br />AMS reconciliation period. In addition to the reconciliation required by Docket No. 35639 and <br /> <br />Substantive Rule 25.130, the Application also proposes an adjustment to the AMS surcharge to <br /> <br />account for the acceleration of its AMS project due to the receipt of a Smart Grid Investment <br /> <br />Grant from the Department of Energy. As ref1ected above, the proposed adjustments to Rider <br /> <br />AMS keep the surcharge amounts at the same level as the surcharge amounts approved in Docket <br /> <br />No. 35639, but they will be charged over a shorter period of time. <br /> <br />E. Rate Case Expenses <br /> <br />CenterPoint Houston seeks recovery through Rider RCE of all reasonable rate case <br /> <br />expenses incurred by the Company or by any intervening city awarded such recovery in this <br /> <br />case. <br /> <br />VI. PROTECTIVE ORDER <br /> <br />CenterPoint Houston has included in Section VII of the rate filing package a proposed <br /> <br />protective order. The proposed protective order is the same as the protective order issued in <br /> <br />Docket No. 36918, the proceeding to determine the Company's Hurricane Ike restoration costs, <br /> <br />with two minor exceptions: the Office of the Attorney General has been added to the parties <br /> <br />listed both in the last sentence of paragraph 8 and in the last sentence of paragraph 35. <br /> <br />CenterPoint Houston has designated certain documents included in this Application as <br /> <br />either Protected Material or Highly Sensitive Protected Material under the terms of the proposed <br /> <br />protective order and anticipates it being necessary for the Company or other parties to submit <br /> <br />additional documents containing confidential material during discovery in this case. The <br /> <br />Company therefore requests approval of the proposed protective order included in Section VII of <br /> <br />the rate filing package. Until a protective order is issued in this proceeding, the Company will <br /> <br />provide access to the confidential information submitted with this Application to parties that <br />