Groundwater Monitoring to be Discontinued at the Puckett Plant

Approval was received from the Texas Railroad Commission to discontinue
groundwater monitoring at the Pucket Plant. As you may remember,
Transwestern constructed a permitted landfill to dispose of the entire
facility near Ft. Stockton. Groundwater montioring activities have been
ongoing since aprox. 1988. A permit condition states that if three years of
groundwater sampling data confirms that the groundwater protection standard
has not been exceeded, the groundwater monitoring activities can be
terminated. A letter from Leslie Savage granting this approval was received
on July 14, 1999.

Ken Gray, all other conditions of the permit are still in effect (noxious
weed and mesquite control, monthly site inspections recordkeeping etc.....).
Continue to keep the records accurate and up to date. I anticipate that we
will be required to monitor and conduct housekeeping activities at the site
indefinately.