Specifications include, but are not limited to: 1. Thoroughly review and evaluate the testimony, filings and other material filed by Versant and assist the Office in analyzing and in identifying any additional issues that should be raised by the Office. 2. Assist the Office in conducting discovery of Versant or other intervening parties sufficient to make a complete analysis of Versant’s proposal and the effect on customers. This assistance should include, without limitation, aid in the preparation of such written requests for information as may be necessary for a thorough analysis of the case. 3. Assist the Office in evaluating the responses to discovery and other information provided by Versant and other parties for the purpose of determining whether the case can be processed on the basis of the revenue requirements, among others, as identified or whether the Office ought to raise additional issues. 4. Assist the Office in preparing proposed cross-examination of any expert witnesses and in conducting such examination, whether at a technical conference or at a MPUC hearing. From time to time, this may include travel to Hallowell, Maine. (The offices of the Maine Public Advocate and of the MPUC are near each other in Hallowell, Maine.) 5. Prepare, present direct testimony, and submit to cross-examination on the revenue requirements identified in PART II.A above, as well as any other issues identified as necessary to raise. This may include travel to Hallowell, Maine. 6. Assist the Office in responding to such discovery as Versant, MPUC Staff, or other parties may undertake of the Office and its consultants. 7. Review the direct testimony filed by Versant and other parties and prepare and present rebuttal and surrebuttal evidence on the revenue requirements and any other issues identified. This may require travel to Hallowell, Maine. 8. Analyze rebuttal testimony filed by Versant and other parties and prepare proposed cross-examination thereof, together with any needed discovery. Assist in the cross-examination of Versant’s rebuttal. From time to time, this may include travel to Hallowell, Maine. 9. In the course of performing these Tasks, assist the Office in evaluating and responding to positions taken and evidence presented by any intervenors that may participate in the case. 10. Assist the Office in the preparation of briefs, reply briefs, oral arguments, and exceptions before the MPUC and its Hearing Examiners. 11. To the extent, and only to the extent, that MPUC practice permits, assist the Office in presenting to the MPUC such recommendations or technical adjustments as may be required in the drafting of the Examiner's Report and/or the MPUC's Decision.
