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From:sarah.novosel@enron.com
To:steven.kean@enron.com, richard.shapiro@enron.com, linda.robertson@enron.com,james.steffes@enron.com, joe.hartsoe@enron.com, sarah.novosel@enron.com, mary.hain@enron.com, tim.belden@enron.com, susan.j.mara@enron.com, jeff.dasovich@enron.com, mona.pet
Subject:Re: SoCalEd Petition for a Writ of Mandamus
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Date:Thu, 28 Dec 2000 07:02:00 -0800 (PST)

As a follow up to my email from yesterday, responses to SoCalEd's Petition
are due on Tuesday, January 2. Dan Watkiss has spoken to the FERC attorneys
who will be answering the Petition, and he is comfortable that FERC will be
able to adequately defend FERC against the Petition. Additionally, Sue Mara
will contact IEP to see if they will be responding to the Petition, and I
have a call in to EPSA to see if they will be responding. Therefore, because
the responses seem to be adequately covered, and to keep Enron's name out of
the headlines, we do not plan on responding separately to the Petition.

If you have any comments or questions, please let us know.

Sarah





Sarah Novosel
12/27/2000 02:19 PM

To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron, Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda
Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe
Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Sarah Novosel/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mary
Hain/HOU/ECT@ECT, Tim Belden/HOU/ECT@ECT, susan.j.mara@enron.com, Jeff
Dasovich/NA/Enron@Enron, Mona L Petrochko/NA/Enron@Enron, Sandra
McCubbin/NA/Enron@Enron, Karen Denne/Corp/Enron@ENRON, mpalmer@enron.com,
Alan Comnes/PDX/ECT@ECT, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Cynthia
Sandherr/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Donna Fulton/Corp/Enron@ENRON, David
Parquet/SF/ECT@ECT, Christopher F Calger/PDX/ECT@ECT
cc:
Subject: SoCalEd Petition for a Writ of Mandamus

On December 26, SoCalEd filed a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus against FERC
regarding FERC's December 15 order, asking the Court of Appeals for the D.C.
Circuit to direct FERC to establish and order "just and reasonable cost-based
rates" for sales in the California ISO and PX markets. SoCal requests that
the Court act by January 5.

SoCal argues that its lenders have said that unless FERC acts immediately to
"restore creditor confidence" in SoCal's ability to repay its loans, that
SoCal will not be able to access additional funding, so that by mid-January
SoCal will be unable to buy electricity, resulting in rolling blackouts to
its customers.

Please let me know if you have any questions or would like a faxed copy of
the petition.

Sarah