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Jeff--I neglected to include your outside lobby team on this e mail, so you
may want to forward to them as well. ----- Forwarded by Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron on 04/10/2001 11:50 PM ----- Susan M Landwehr 04/10/2001 11:07 PM To: Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Sandra McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron, Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT Subject: Re: FERC Hearing in Boise Jeff--you did such a good job that I don't have to type much. I do have a few other thoughts to share that may be helpful for the California folks. The format, although somewhat informal, had a court reporter present and transcripts will be published. Each state was invited to have 2 representatives and one of the 2 had to be a Commission member. Opening comments were taken from each state and then specific topics were discussed. Herzberg participated primarily in the opening discussion. He came across as very sincere---indicated that they were working "around the clock" to take care of their problems, but that they cannot do it alone. He asked for FERC to help get Califonia to "stabilization" and specifically asked FERC for three actions: an 18 month temporary price cap on electricity, an 18 month temporary price cap on natural gas prices and to prohibit any withholding of pipeline capacity to California. He was treated very respectfully (which was not as evident in the comments to Commissioner Brown), and I think he did his cause some good. Much more so that in other venues when I've seen other reps from Davis's office speak. Breathitt came to California's defense at some point in the discussion. Commissioner Brown did his share of ranting about EVERYBODY knowing that market manipulation is taking place and that the bastards were going to pay for their misdeeds (ok..he didn't use those words, but his message was clear) Lastly, the Chair of the Montana was the most vocal and honest in his comments to the California partcipants stating, in part, "why should Montana ratepayers be taking the hit because California didn't build power plants." Jeff Dasovich Sent by: Jeff Dasovich 04/10/2001 09:05 PM To: Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: FERC Hearing in Boise Forgot to send the darned thing to you! Sorry. ----- Forwarded by Jeff Dasovich/NA/Enron on 04/10/2001 09:04 PM ----- Jeff Dasovich Sent by: Jeff Dasovich 04/10/2001 05:28 PM To: hgovenar@govadv.com, Scott Govenar <sgovenar@govadv.com<, MDay@GMSSR.com, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Harry Kingerski/NA/Enron@Enron, Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, mpalmer@enron.com, skean@enron.com, Linda Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Sandra McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: FERC Hearing in Boise Greetings: Sue Landwehr will be sending around a more comprehensive summary of what happened at today's FERC hearnig in Boise but asked me to pass along the following. Each state was only allowed to have two people at the table. For California it was Assembly Speaker Hertzberg and Geoff Brown (newly appointed CA PUC Commissioner). Hertzberg did a credible, matter-of-fact job of explaining what California's doing to resolve the crisis (nice to know that there's someone out there who can explain what the heck California's doing). Hertzberg then asked that FERC do "its part" by imposing price caps in Western wholesale markets. Hertzberg didn't mention the PG&E bankruptcy or Davis' deal with Edison. Overall, the "no price cap" message won the day (though Breathitt seems to be under considerable pressure to give in to caps). The Governor of Arizona (Jane Hull) had a staffer deliver a letter signed by 9 republicant governors opposing price caps. Sue will be distributing the letter. Best, Jeff
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