Re: Comments on Judge Wagner's Proposed Recommendation

My comments are attached. I think the pleading is well written, but, as
you'll see from my comments, I believe we should be incorporating more of the
arguments from the previous pleading.

Ray Alvarez
07/09/2001 07:14 PM
To: James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron
cc: Jeffrey T Hodge/Enron@EnronXGate, Robert C Williams/Enron@EnronXGate,
Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda
Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Alan Comnes/Enron@EnronXGate, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Susan J Mara/NA/Enron@ENRON, Robert
Frank/NA/Enron@Enron, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, dwatkiss@bracepatt.com

Subject: Comments on Judge Wagner's Proposed Recommendation

As you may be aware, the Chief Judge informed the parties to the settlement
proceeding this afternoon that he intends to recommend to the Commission that
it employ the June 19 rate methodology for the refund period from October 2
forward.

Attached are draft comments that Sarah Novosel and I propose to submit to the
Judge and his legal staff tomorrow. While we would like to convince the
Judge that the June 19 methodology is not appropriate, we also provide a
fallback approach.

Please review the comments (they are only 4 pages) and send your comments to
us. We plan to submit the comments tomorrow.

Thanks

Ray and Sarah