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Linda: As discussed before, Senate Energy Committee staff have already begun
meetings to draft the bipartisan Energy Legislation they plan to introduce at the beginning of the 107th Congress. Their bill will focus on three major categories including "supply" (including fuel diversity, and consistent natural gas prices regardless of world oil prices, etc.); "infrastructure development" (including pipeline construction for gas and liquids, eminent domain for electricity transmission, reliability including California plus heating oil reserves with concerns regarding the mandatory inventory levels precedence set by Massachusetts); and "efficiency" (including tax measures, renewables and distributed generation.) They are working off of the 106th Congress bills S. 2557, S. 2904 and tax bills such as S. 2718. In addition, they are meeting with RUS to discuss ideas to fund transmission builds in rural areas so as to eliminate capacity restraints. Further, CRS is writing an "options" paper addressing various means to stimulate supply. Finally, they are awaiting BLM's official "inventory of the public lands available for development" which shall include listings of constraints to development, thus, enabling them to draft solutions. They will likely do the tax issues first and then the access issues after but this is not set in stone. Regardless, now is the time for Enron to supply input and innovative solutions to address the issues. I would suggest the need to go over the existing legislation; decide which provisions we like and don't like plus offer legislative drafting solutions for provisions we deem missing. As such, shall we proceed with a meeting, conference call, etc.?? Please advise. We have the month of January to compile our legislative wish list and convey our ideas to staff. As an aside, the House is still addressing Committee Chair and staffing issues so are not as far along as the Senate. However, Chairman Barton expects quick action on energy issues in the 107th. Thanks.
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