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Thought you guys would be interested in my overall musings in addition to the
California comments. I never know who to copy on all this stuff!!! ----- Forwarded by Susan M Landwehr/NA/Enron on 04/10/2001 11:52 PM ----- Susan M Landwehr 04/10/2001 11:48 PM To: Paul Kaufman/PDX/ECT@ECT, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Janel Guerrero/Corp/Enron@Enron, Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Subject: more on FERC meeting Paul et al--in addition to the comments that I made specific to California on the previous e mail, there were a few other observations that might be of interest. Governor Kempthorne made opening comments and used fairly strong comments against price caps. US Senator Larry Craig made opening comments, including the statement "price caps ......an easy political decision to make, once it's made, it's impossible to change". He stayed for the entire meeting, and I got the impression that he was traveling with Hebert. The Chairman from Colorado (Raymond Gifford) was particularly strong in his advocacy against price caps as were the 2 participants from Arizona. The Chairman from Nevada asked that Walt Higgins (CEO of Sierra Pacific?) be able to make comments on the record. Mr Higgins' testimony was vrey good for our cause, both in substance and "message" wise. He basically said that if price caps were put in place, he would be punished for having hedged and put together a balanced portfolio to be able serve his customers effectively. Breathitt seemed to have a relationship with him so he might be a another good sounding board for her? As stated in the article that Dasovich sent around, Hebert tallied the votes at the end of the meeting. Although all of the republican governors are against price caps, three of the commissioners from those states were open to considering some type of "price mitigation plan" (this is apparently the new word for price caps because all of the proponents of price caps kept using it) with lots of caveats. Those commissioners were Schafer from New Mexico, White from Utah, and Smith from Idaho. Lastly, Commissioner Breathitt was accurately protrayed in the article. She seemed increasingly angst ridden as the meeting went on and at the end of the meeting stated that she really wanted the FERC to consider a price mitigation plan and the she "had a lot of thinking to do".
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