PUCO Chairman Alan Schriber

I talked with Chairman Schriber this morn to give him a heads-up on the
meeting Barbara and I are having with the Governor's Chief of Staff in
follow-up to Ken Lay and Governor Taft's conversation on transmission
access. (We are going to try and get Taft to push for Ken Lay to be the
keynote speaker at the NGA in February).

Schriber indicated that beginning next month, he plans to make transmission
issues a top priority since he believes that to be the largest impediment to
competition. He thinks we need to create a secondary market and that all the
acamedicians are making this more complex than it needs to be. We also
talked about about the native load language in the settlements. I offered
to have Enron come in and talk to him about our vision on how the
transmission system should work and he was very enthusiastic and said he
would give us a full day if we needed it.

My assessment is that Schriber is a little naive about the ease with which a
solution can be developed but that he is genuinely interested in being
proactive and taking a position which potentially may not be very different
from ours. (The meeting with him will help ferret that out).

My recommendation is that we set up a meeting with him for mid-December and
go through our issues in a Transmission101 format, since I think he needs to
go up the learning curve.

Schriber indicated he would try to attend the Nov. 14th meeting in Indy, but
may be conflicted. He will make sure PUCO staffers attend.

Janine