**In Midwest Staff Investigation

This is our argument now on appeal in Entergy source and sink -- that FERC
has always deferred to NERC and totally disregarded the NERC letters against
TVA and MAIN in the Entergy order. FERC staff's quote should be helpful in
our brief at the DC Circuit.
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From: Christi L Nicolay 11/09/2000 04:16 PM

To: dwatkiss@bracepatt.com, sbuchheit@bracepatt.com, Joe
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sarah
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Subject: **In Midwest Staff Investigation

For Entergy appeal:

Midwest -- Staff Investigation p. 2-24 discussion about NERC procedures.
"In practice, however, the Commission has generally deferred to NERC on
transmission reliability questions..."

Also, the Acknowledgements for the Southeast Team thank Ron Rattey.