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=09"Julee Malinowski-Ball" <jmball@ns.net< =0903/30/2001 06:29 PM =09Please respond to "Julee Malinowski-Ball" =09=09=20 =09=09 To: "Jan Smutny Jones" <smutny@iepa.com<, "Steven Kelley" <steven@ie= pa.com<,=20 "Katie Kaplan" <kaplan@iepa.com< =09=09 cc: "William Hall" <wfhall2@duke-energy.com<, "Tony Wetzel"=20 <twetzel@thermoecotek.com<, "Sue Mara" <smara@enron.com<, "Steven Kelley"= =20 <steven@iepa.com<, "Steve Ponder" <steve_ponder@fpl.com<, "Steve Iliff"=20 <siliff@riobravo-gm.com<, "Stephanie Newell"=20 <stephanie-newell@reliantenergy.com<, "Roger Pelote"=20 <roger.pelote@williams.com<, "Richard Hyde" <rwhyde@duke-energy.com<, "Rand= y=20 Hickok" <rjhickok@duke-energy.com<, "Rachel King" <rachel.king@elpaso.com<,= =20 "Paula Soos" <paula_soos@ogden-energy.com<, "Nam Nguyen"=20 <nam.nguyen@powersrc.com<, "Marty McFadden"=20 <marty_mcfadden@ogden-energy.com<, "Lynn Lednicky" <lale@dynegy.com<,=20 "Larrea, John" <John.g.Larrea@williams.com<, "kent Palmerton"=20 <kent.palmerton@williams.com<, "Ken Hoffman" <khoffman@caithnessenergy.com<= ,=20 "Kate Castillo" <ccastillo@riobravo-gm.com<, "Kassandra Gough"=20 <kgough@calpine.com<, "Jonathan Weisgall" <jweisgall@aol.com<, "John Stout"= =20 <john_h_stout@reliantenergy.com<, "Joe Ronan" <joer@calpine.com<, "Joe Grec= o"=20 <jgreco@caithnessenergy.com<, "Jim Willey" <elliottsa@earthlink.net<, "Jeff= =20 Dasovich" <Jeff.Dasovich@enron.com<, "Jack Pigott" <jackp@calpine.com<, "Ja= ck=20 Hawks" <jack.hawks@gen.pge.com<, "Hap Boyd" <rboyd@enron.com<, "Greg Blue"= =20 <gtbl@dynegy.com<, "Frank DeRosa" <fderosa@sanfrancisco.usgen.com<, "Eric= =20 Eisenman" <eric.eisenman@gen.pge.com<, "Eileen Koch" <eileenk@calpine.com<,= =20 "Ed Tomeo" <ed.tomeo@uaecorp.com<, "Duane Nelson" <dnelsen@msn.com<, "Doug= =20 Fernley" <fernley.doug@epenergy.com<, "Dean Gosselin"=20 <dean_gosselin@fpl.com<, "David Parquet" <dparque@ect.enron.com<, "Curtis= =20 Kebler" <curtis_l_kebler@reliantenergy.com<, "Curt Hatton"=20 <Curt.Hatton@gen.pge.com<, "Craig Chancellor" <craigc@calpine.com<, "Cody= =20 Carter" <cody.carter@williams.com<, "Carolyn Baker"=20 <cabaker@duke-energy.com<, "Bob Gates" <bob.gates@enron.com<, "Bob Escalant= e"=20 <rescalante@riobravo-gm.com<, "Bob Ellery" <bellery@spi-ind.com<, "Bill=20 Woods" <billw@calpine.com<, "Bill Carlson"=20 <william_carlson@wastemanagement.com<, "Scott Sadler"=20 <sadlersa@earthlink.net<, "Andy Brown" <ABB@eslawfirm.com<, "Chris Ellison"= =20 <CTE@eslawfirm.com<, "Doug Kerner" <dkk@eslawfirm.com<, "Dave Modisette"=20 <dmodis@ns.net<, "Susan McCabe" <smccabe@mccabeandcompany.net<, "Scott=20 Govenar" <sgovenar@govadv.com<, "Ron Tom" <thackbarth@govadv.com<, "Robert= =20 Ross" <robbiz@cwo.com<, "Rina Venturini" <rventurini@teamgsi.net<, "Phil=20 Isenberg" <Isenberg@HMOT.com<, "Mike Monagan" <mrmonagan@aol.com<, "Maureen= =20 OHaren" <Oharen@HMOT.com<, "Marie Moretti" <mmoretti@mccabeandcompany.net<,= =20 "Jamie Parker" <jparker@hmot.com<, "Hedy Govenar" <hgovenar@govadv.com<,=20 "Delany Hunter" <dhunter@s-k-w.com<, "Chuck Cole" <ccole@advocation-inc.com= <,=20 "Bev Hansen" <bhansen@lhom.com<, "Anne Kelly" <kelly@hnks.com<, "Fred=20 Pownall" <fred_pownall@ka-pow.com< =09=09 Subject: Legislative Status Report Week Ending 3/30 Date: 3/30/01 To: Jan Smutny-Jones, Steven Kelly, Katie Kaplan Cc: IEP Board of Directors From: Julee Malinowski-Ball, Edson + Modisette RE: Legislative Status Report Week Ending 3/30 RECENT EVENTS: -- SB 28x (Sher/Battin), which makes various changes to the siting process including many IEP-sponsored proposals, passed off the Senate floor last week 37 to 1. Asm. Wright=01,s office is now working with the authors and = IEP to make additional changes to the bill, as opposed to moving more siting issues in AB 36x (Wright) (although that is still an option). Chris Elliso= n and I are continuing to work with the authors=01, staff to develop addition= al language. The bill is scheduled to be heard on Monday in the Assembly Energ= y Costs and Availability Committee. We are waiting to review new language from the author=01,s office. At this point we are recommending the bill do= es NOT move forward without this additional language. I will let members know the status of these amendments before the hearing. -- IEP has a meeting with the newly-elected Assembly Republican Leader Dave Cox (Sacramento) on Tuesday at 8:30 am to discuss the Republican=01,s posit= ion on siting and direct access, and possibly linking those issues with the passage SB 5x (Sher), the billion dollar energy conservation bill on the Assembly side. Although they are not the only issues IEP and its members want resolved in this legislative session, they are currently the most visible and active issues with the best chance of passage. -- AB 60x (Hertzberg), which ties to the siting process the requirement tha= t a developer enter into a contract to sell power to specified California entities, is out of the Assembly on a 64 to 12 vote. The bill will be hear= d in the Senate Energy Committee next. IEP members have agreed on amendments to the bill which it will present to the Speaker, however, it and its members will be meeting with members of the Senate Energy Committee to stop the bill. IEP=01,s opposition message is twofold: 1) the bill creates anot= her obstacle in the siting process when the state should be streamlining it; and, 2) as a net-importer, California would be sending the wrong signals to its neighboring states that send us power in our time of need. -- AB 8x (Migden), which would have given the EOB additional and undefined powers related to the coordination of operation and maintenance schedules, was gutted in the Senate last week and used as a vehicle for the State to get the generation component of the utilities=01, rates, the San Diego rate= cap extended to all customers, and kicking the QF issue to the CPUC. AB 8x in its new form, authored by Assembly Member Keeley, passed out of the Senate, but failed to get enough Republicans to vote for the bill on the Assembly floor. The biggest opposition came primarily from the gas-fired QFs which wanted to be exempt from the measure=01,s QF provisions. Migden=01,s office has communicated its intention to move forward with the language previously in AB 8x, although in a different vehicle not yet identified. There remains a commitment on the table to meet with IEP to discuss amendments. IEP member company lobbyists have agreed to continue lobbying her office to urge her to wait hearing the bill again until this meeting has happened. -- There appears as if there is going to be another attempt at moving QF legislation next week. SB 66x (Bowen) was introduced on Wednesday in which a Senate Floor analysis was already prepared. The measure is still in spot-bill format, but rumor has it =01&they=018 are working on language as = we speak. Be prepared for anything. -- Senator Burton=01,s office is sending IEP another set of amendments attempting to solve our problem with the eminent domain provision in SB 6x (Burton), which is the state power authority measure. I will report on the status of these amendments once we have had a chance to review them. -- SB 39x (Speier), which would define generators as public utilities and put the CPUC in the role of coordinating outages and maintenance schedules, remains on the Senate floor awaiting a vote. There is no action item on this measure at this time. -- Regular session is getting under way in conjunction with the on-going special session hearings. IEP has taken a support position on the followin= g bills which are scheduled for hearings next week: SB 64x (Costa), which expands to Biomass-to-Energy grant program; AB 49x (Campbell), AB 226 (Campbell), and SB 30x (Brulte), each of which would allocate property tax revenues from new power plants exclusively to the residing local government= ; and, AB 1138 (LaSuer), which in its introduced form would provide low-interest loans for repower projects and peaker plants, with specified conditions. -- Attached is the most recent legislative tracking reports, both the special session and regular session. Please let me know if you need copies of any of these bills. UPCOMING EVENTS: MONDAY, April 2nd -- Assembly Energy Costs and Availability Committee SB 28x (Sher) - siting -- Assembly Utilities and Commerce Committee AB 226 (Campbell) =01) property tax revenues -- Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee AB 49x (Campbell) =01) property tax revenues -- Senate Environmental Quality Committee SB 64x (Costa) =01) Biomass-to-Energy grant program -- Assembly ECA subcommittee on Natural Gas Natural Gas Cost and Availability Legislative Proposals TUESDAY, April 3rd -- Assembly Economic Development Committee AB 1138 (LaSuer) =01) low-interest loans for repowers and peakers. WEDNESDAY, April 4th -- Senate Local Government Committee SB 30x (Brulte) =01) property tax revenues THURSDAY, April 5th Spring recess begins upon adjournment of session. ON THE ASSEMBLY FLOOR AB 8x (Keeley) ON THE SENATE FLOOR SB 33x (Burton) =01) transmission measure. SB 39x (Speier) =01) coordination of outages and maintenance scheduling. --end-- Julee Malinowski-Ball Senior Associate Edson + Modisette 916-552-7070 FAX-552-7075 jmball@ns.net - 2001 Tracking Report.special session.doc - 2001 Tracking Report.doc
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