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---------------------- Forwarded by Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron on 01/26/2001
11:19 AM --------------------------- ALLISON NAVIN 01/26/2001 09:48 AM To: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Lora Sullivan/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Senate Energy Hearing Witness Rick - In case you didn't receive this, here is the e-mail that Cynthia sent yesterday about next week's Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing. It will be held on Wednesday, January 31 at 9:30 a.m. in 216 Hart Senate Office Building and will most likely continue for a second day, to be determined. Let us know if you need anything else. Thanks. Cynthia Sandherr 01/25/2001 05:30 PM To: Steven J Kean/NA/Enron@Enron cc: Richard Shapiro/NA/Enron@Enron, James D Steffes/NA/Enron@Enron, Linda Robertson/NA/Enron@ENRON, Tom Briggs/NA/Enron@Enron, Joe Hartsoe/Corp/Enron@ENRON, Mark Palmer/Corp/Enron@ENRON Subject: Senate Energy Hearing Witness Steve: I ran into Senate Energy Committee Chief of Staff Andrew Lundquist who advised me that Chairman Murkowski (R-AK) sent a letter directly to Ken Lay asking him or his designee (you?)( Jeff Skilling?) to testify at the January 31st Senate Energy Committee hearing on the California situation. As reported earlier, Secretary Abraham and FERC Chairman Hebert will be testifying at the beginning of the hearing. Enron would be asked to join a panel of eight which includes invited witnesses of: SoCalEd, PG&E, SMUD, LAWDP, Calpine, Williams and Reliant. Should Enron accept, EPSA would have four witnesses on this panel of eight. When I spoke to Andrew, he said the Committee was more interested in hearing Enron's testimony on markets, long term contracts, risk management, etc. than the generation and new power plant construction viewpoints likely to be offered by the other EPSA witnesses. He believes this will complement what the Administration witnesses will say. Believe it or not, recently, Chairman Murkowski has made some progress in moving towards supporting Enron's open access electricity transmission position, although his draft legislation is silent on this issue. Our testimony on the importance of open access for reliability purposes ("reliability" would be the tie-in to discuss this issue in relation to the draft legislation) plus on the need for consistency with the other existing open access provisions in the Murkowski draft bill could provide an excellent platform for Enron to inform many Congressional members about California, markets and deregulation needs (the Murkowski draft bill was sent to you earlier and is to be introduced February 5th or 6th.) Steve, earlier you had asked for the opportunity to do a Hill staff briefing on California to reach a larger audience with our messages. I believe this would provide an excellent opportunity to achieve this goal. If you would like, either at a breakfast prior to or in the afternoon after, we could also do a Press Club briefing and/or arrange to have a room on the Hill (perhaps on the House side) to invite staffers for additional briefings (and include the other EPSA witnesses.) In the alternative, if this hearing date does not work in your schedule, the other EPSA witnesses could make some of our points for us. However, these points might be somewhat diluted given these witnesses' other priorities. As always, you (Jeff and Ken) make a fabulous witness. Please advise. (This hearing will be covered extensively by the Press.)
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