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With Jim in Sacramento tomorrow, and hearings scheduled to discuss addition=
al amendments, seems like a good opportunity for Jim to testify and knock s= ome sense into the damn committee. They won't know what hit 'em. =20 Best, Jeff -----Original Message-----=20 From: Scott Govenar=20 Sent: Tue 8/28/2001 8:42 PM=20 To: Sharma, Ban; Leboe, David; Eric Letke; Thome, Jennifer; Ken Smith; Bev = Hansen; Hedy Govenar; Buster, Miyung; Guerrero, Janel; Robert Frank; Mike D= ay; Lawner, Leslie; Kingerski, Harry; Karen Denne; Kean, Steven J.; Alan Co= mnes; Susan J Mara; Kaufman, Paul; Jeff Dasovich; Steffes, James D.; Rick S= hapiro=20 Cc:=20 Subject: SBX2 78 - Update The Assembly Energy, Costs and Availability Committee heard and voted on amendments to SBX2 78 proposed by many interested parties. Some passed, some failed and most of them served to further confuse the committee members. Eventually the committee stalled on detailed proposals made by TURN and other consumer groups. During the hearing Hedy had the opportunity to speak to Nancy McFadden and Richard Katz from the Governor=19 s office regarding a couple of issues highlighted by Jeff and Mike Day. Richard said he is willing to make more technical amendments when the bill gets to Appropriations. Subsequently, Hedy and I spoke to D.J. Smith at Jeff=19 s request. D.J. agreed that the = bill needs to use the August 24th date as a grandfather date for executed DA contracts, but specifically asked that we (Enron) not speak to Richard abou= t it. He said he will have the business entities request it as a clarifying amendment. If we request it, he thought Richard would be less likely to believe it's clarifying since he believes our motives to be too self-serving. Also, we spent some time with Lenny Goldberg on direct access. We suggested that =1C shall=1D be changed to =1C may=1D in order t= o give more leeway to the PUC on direct access suspension. He didn=19 t necessarily op= pose the policy, but his position is not to amend a bad bill unless you can totally rewrite it (which he later attempted to do). A lobbyist for a significant generator told us that they are prepared to push Edison into bankruptcy (along with the Canadian government) if this bill passes. There is no consensus that this measure will ever get to the Governor=19 s desk. The committee will meet again tomorrow at approximately 1:30 p.m. to vote o= n additional amendments and ultimately to vote on the complete bill.
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