the money is spent on what they call higher priority work. reporter: what was that? well, you can t track the dollars one by one, but we do know that they spent $62 million more on management incentive bonuses than they had forecasted in 2009. reporter: mike florio is a senior attorney for the watchdog. he says pg&e spent the money dedicated to replace the pipeline. so it is now seeking rate increases again, another $5 million to replace the same stretch of pipeline. how do you know this? because it s right in the documentation they file with the puc to support their rate cases. you know, if you dig deep enough into these big, thick documents, this is what you find. reporter: the california public utilities commission, or