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Subject: Southwest Region Environmental Roundtable Oct. 16-18

The Southwest Region will be hosting its 2001 environmental roundtable in  Albuquerque, NM on October 16-17 at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza (505)  821-3333.
Room rates are $89.00 per night.
Each attendee will be  responsible for his/her room reservations for the two day event.
The agenda  for this roundtable will be sent out in the near future.
If you would like  to be a speaker and give a presentation on a topic or product please send to  my attention for possible incorporation into the program.
Subject: Weekly Environmental Activity Report Roswell Area

The State of New Mexico conducted a surprise air inspection of the TW Atoka  No.3 C/S.
The agency found no non compliance issues or violoations during  the inspection.
The second quarter Transwestern/SoCal PCB management committee meeting was  held this week.
Transwestern's share of the PCB management and disposal  activities on the SoCal system for the quarter was $125,950.00.
The State of New Mexico has issued the settlement penalty for the turbine  replacement issue at the P-1 C/S.
The original amount levied against  Transwestern in 1997  was $14,700.
After the Air Quality Bureau sat on this  issue for more than 4 years without resolution, they reassessed the penalty  to be $162,770.
A conference call will be set up to discuss Transwestern's  next course of action.
The summary report for due diligence conducted in Portland Ore. was completed  and submitted to Environmental Affairs in Houston.
Subject: Weekly Activity Report, Roswell Area

Began initial field confirmation of EOTT crude oil tanks and equipment in the  MIdland Region.
Five of the thirteen teams which have EOTT facilites have  been inpsected and appropriate changes made to the database and spreadsheet.
A meeting was held with the Midland field teams which have Title V  facilities, to complete and submit the required annual certifications.
All  Title V locations in the MIdland region were in compliance for this year.
Region IX EPA has made a determination that prior to issuance of the air  permits for the Redrock turbine installation, Transwestern is to conduct an  endangered species survey of C/S's 3 and 4.
A contractor has been contacted  and the surveys will be completed prior to September 15th.
This is not a  new issue, as EPA Region VI, Dallas required consideration of the Endangered  Species Act to be completed at the Luguna C/S, which is on Laguna Indian  Lands.
The Title V permit will not be issued for the Laguna C/S until the  EPA is satisified that endangered species are not a concern.
Preliminary environmental and right of way field data are being provided to  an environmental contractor to initiate a fatal flaw analysis of a proposed  project for Transwestern Pipeline Company.
Continued EOTT crude oil release data collections for forthcoming Sept. 27th  NFL meeting in MIdland.
Subject: Air Permit Delay, Red Rock Expansion

Yesterday evening I phoned both the state of Arizona ( agency for stations 1  and 2) and Region 9 EPA ( agency for stations 3 and 4) concerning the status  of when the air permits would be issued by both agencies for the Redrock  expansion.
I was surprised to find out that both agencies stated a 2-4 month  delay prior to issuance.
They cited back log of other permits, public  comment periods, and workload as being the main reasons.
I am particularily  disappointed because there were pre meetings with both agencies identifying  what was to be included in each application package, and even after the  applications were submitted in March of this year, each agency came back and  asked for different information that from what was discussed at each meeting.
I have a call into the state of Arizona ( construction is to begin at Station  2 and they have jurisdiction for this station) to see if we can initiate   some construction activities  such as laying pipe and building foundations  prior to receiving the permit.
I have been given these types of approvals  from other agencies in the past, but these types of approvals are extremely  narrow and restrictive.
If this flys I am sure that they will require us to  make sure the turbine is not brought on site until the permit has been  issued.
I know this will require written approval from the agency, but this  may allow us to proceed on schedule and avoid any delays.
Ill keep you  apprised of this issue.
Subject: Albuquerque Environmental Roundtable, Oct. 16-17

The 2001 environmental roundtable  has been confirmed  for the above location  and dates.
Make your reservations at the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza  (505) 821-3333.
The hotel is located on the frontage road off I-25 north at  the Paso del Norte exit.
Room rates are $89.00 per night.
A block of rooms  is being held under "Enron Transportations Services-Environmental  Roundtable".
The agenda for the roundtable is presented below:  Tuesday October 16th    7:00-8:00 am  Contintental Breakfast.
8:00-8:15 am  Welcome and Opening Remarks.
8:15-8:45 am  Bill Kendrick, Director Environmental Affairs, ETS.
8:45-9:15 am  Chad Ingalls, The Nature Conservancy (Station 2 Project).
9:15-10:00 am  Ruth Jensen, Air Issues and Compliance.
10:00-10:15 am  BREAK  10:15-11:15 am  Denise Celani Safety Kleen.
"What happens to your waste  after we get it"  11:15-12:00 pm  Joe Lueras.
Envisions training and demonstration.
12:00-1:30 pm  LUNCH    1:30-2:30 pm  Mike Riedel.
Emissions Inventories.
2:30-2:45  pm  BREAK    2:45-3:45 pm  Ruth Jensen.
Star Program    3:45-4:30 pm  Larry Campbell.
Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.
4:30-4:45 pm  Closing Remarks and Adjourn.
Wednesday October 17th    8:30-12:00 pm  Surprise Exercise.
12:00-1:30 pm  LUNCH    1:30-3:00 pm  Larry Campbell.
Discussion of Surprise Exercise.
3:00-3:15 pm  BREAK    3:15-4:30 pm  Larry Campbell.
Mock Environmental Situations.
4:30-4:45 pm  Questions and comments concerning roundtable.
4:45 pm  Adjourn.
Looking forward to seeing you all and having a productive and interesting  session.
Subject: Redrock Permit Issue, Requested Information

Joe, presented below is the first memo I sent out concering the air permit  issue:  [Yesterday evening I phoned both the state of Arizona ( agency for stations 1  and 2) and Region 9 EPA ( agency for stations 3 and 4) concerning the status  of when the air permits would be issued by both agencies for the Redrock  expansion.
I was surprised to find out that both agencies stated a 2-4 month  delay prior to issuance.
They cited back log of other permits, public  comment periods, and workload as being the main reasons.
I am particularily  disappointed because there were pre meetings with both agencies identifying  what was to be included in each application package, and even after the  applications were submitted in March of this year, each agency came back and  asked for different information that from what was discussed at each meeting.
I have a call into the state of Arizona ( construction is to begin at Station  2 and they have jurisdiction for this station) to see if we can initiate   some construction activities  such as laying pipe and building foundations  prior to receiving the permit.
I have been given these types of approvals  from other agencies in the past, but these types of approvals are extremely  narrow and restrictive.
If this flys I am sure that they will require us to  make sure the turbine is not brought on site until the permit has been  issued.
I know this will require written approval from the agency, but this  may allow us to proceed on schedule and avoid any delays.
Ill keep you  apprised of this issue.]
I spoke with the ADEQ after our conference call and they directed me to  another group (compliance) in the air permit section.
They strongly  suggested that I contact the compliance group before contacting Nancy Wrona,  Director of the ADEQ.
I left a message with the supervisor of the ADEQ  compliance section, Kathy McConnell (?)
602-207-2328, but have not heard back  from her.
Either Bill Kendrick or I will  be touching base with her again,  tomorrow.
Arnold has given me the following list of construction items he would like to  have the ADEQ grant us permission/waiver to do in leau of receiving the air  permits:   all earthwork  trench construction and piping tie ins  all foundation and building construction  installation of ancillary equipment  This list is probably too aggressive and falls out of what the agency may  allow us to do.
Subject: See what you think

Dan, sorry about taking so long it getting back to you about this, but I had  a couple of crises I had to address,  Im still realing from the impact.
I  have attached for your review the agreement which we are in the process of  finalizing with the Wild Turkey Federation.
Take a look at the document and  let me know what you think.
After your review we can make the necessary  changes and modifications.
I have been advised by our legal department that  each of the three major pipelines owned and operated by Enron will need a  separate contract, with the RMEF, so what we decide for Transwestern, will  undoubtably work for the others.
Thanks for your patience in this.
Subject: Staions 3 and 4 air permit comments to EPA

Jon and Ruth, presented below are the comments to the air perimts at 3 and  4.
Please review for clairty and content.
I have spoken to Roger Kohn about  all of these issues and the only one which may be a problem is with No.
2.
He is checking on what the EPA can do about this.
I have spoken to Arnold  Eisenstein about what we can do with the strict 25 ppmvd requriement for NOx  and CO and he has said that we can hold to the 25 ppm value by doing some  major gas recycling.
This is a fuel waste and costly.
Anyway, depending  upon how long this issue delays the issuance of the permit will undoubtably  determine whether we give in to the 25 ppmvd or hold out for 40 ppmvd.
Id  like your comments asap.
1.
The responsible official name change to  Danny Pribble.
2..
The draft permit limits NOx and CO emissions to  25 ppmv at 15% O2, based on a 3-hour average, except during periods of  startup   and shutdown.
At 60F and above the GE data indicates that these  rates are achievable under all operating conditions.
However, GE   data  indicates that NOx and CO may be as high as 40 ppmv during low-load  conditions of 60%and lower.
The permit application represented turbine operations at base load 80% of  the time with reduced load operations (64% load) occurring  no more than 20%  of the time.
The potential to emit calculations presented the emissions in  the application in units of lb.hr and ton/yr.
These values were accepted by  the EPA for the netting analysis, and  took were taken into account by the  EPA (See EPA Statement  of Basis document).
Because the permit conditions  hold us to ppmvd values and not lb/yr or ton/year values, Transwestern is    concerned that under low load conditions of less than 60%, the emissions of  NOx and CO would be 40 ppmvd.
Transwestern is  requesting that  a provision  be made in the permit conditions that  emissions of NOx and CO be held to 40  ppmvd during the 20 % of  the time that the turbines operating conditions is  less than or equal to 60%.
3.
The word "Catepillar" is mispelled throughout the permit.
4.
Permit conditions for sulfur testing in the fuel gas requires Transwestern  to use methodologies (wet chemistry technology) that are not     normally  used to monitor and measure sulfur in the natural gas.
Transwestern has  received approval from the EPA for other custom  fuel monitoring schedules to  use  "GPA Standard 2377" (length of stain tube) or gas chromatography as the  proposed methodology  to  monitor sulfur in the natural gas.
Subject: Weekly Envoironmental Activity Report

Transwestern Pipeline Company  Transwestern has run into some problems with the air permit conditions for  the Redrock Expansion.
For the state permits, the ADEQ wants to abitrarily  set a 10% safety factor to the emissions levels which approach PSD.
This  means that they have written into the draft permit a reduction in the  allowable hours of operation for  the generator from 8760 to 7800.
This  generator is the facility's prime source of power and therefore, needs to be  operated for 8760 hours.
Transwestern will challenge the agency's authority  to apply a 10%safety factor.
For the Indain lands permits, the EPA has written a permit condition of 25  ppmvd for NOx and CO under all operating conditions.
Manufacturerers  guarantees only apply at 25 ppmvd at loads above 65% and at 0F.
It appears  that Transwestern may have convenienced the EPA to back away from permit  limits in ppmvd and include as permit conditons lb/hr and ton/yr emissions  limits that Transwestern originally placed into its applications.
Northern Natural Gas Company  A standard exemption for the NNG Martin Co. No.
1 facility was submitted to  the TNRCC.
Preliminary maintenance activities and newly published AP-42  emissions factors have shown that the Martin Co. 1 facility may be a Title V  facility.
Under the old AP-42 factors, the units at the facility were not  greater than 100 ton/year sources.
Continued investigation  is being  conducted to determine emissions levels from the units at the facility.
EOTT A request and supporting documentation was submitted to the TNRCC to remove  the EOTT Crane facility from the Title V operating permit program.
New data  on the crude oil received into the facility shows the emissions limits for  VOCs to be less than the Title V regulated limit.
General  Preparations are being  finalized for the environmental roundtable to be held  next week in Albuquerque.
Subject: Expidited Request to EPA for Review

Shudeish, I spoke with Roger Kohn, Region IX EPA permit engineer, about the  time his agency will take to do the air permit reveiw for Kingman and  Flagstaff.
He stated that EPA normally gets the allowed 45 days to do the  permit review, however, at the request of the state agency, his office will  do an expidited review.
Because of the urgency of Transwetern desiring to  initiate construction, by this email, I am asking the ADEQ to request  an  expidited review  of the Kingman and Flagstaff air permits from the EPA.
Again, thanks for your work and effort that you have put in on this project.
Subject: Results of the PG&E Filter Separator Cleaning

Just a short message to apprise everyone of the cleaning results performed on  the filter separator from the Transwestern M/S.
Wipe tests taken of the  interrior portions of the separator prior to cleaning revealed PCB results  of: 360, 500 and 520 microgram.
This was not a standard wipe taken of a  specific area.
These wipes were taken over large areas to determine  presence/absence of PCB's within the separator.
After the cleaning operation  was completed, three wipe samples were taken of the interrior portions of the  separator.
All results showed non detect at less than 1.0 microgram.
I feel  we can be fairly certain that the separator is free of residual PCBs.
Jeff, would you pass this information on to your counterpart for PG&E?
Subject: Status, Redrock Air Permits

Bill as per your request, presented below is a status of the air permitting  activity by the agencies as of today 11/01/01.
Stations 1 and 2.
The EPA has completed is review of these state permits and  has sent them back to the ADEQ for comment.
I have spoken to Shudeish, the  permit engineer for the ADEQ, and he is reviewing EPA's comments as this e  mail is being written.
He will give me a call when his review is complete,  but he does not anticipate any major issues which cant be resolved prior to  the public hearing.
These permits went out for public notice on October 15  and 16, which means that the comment period ends on Nov. 15 and 16.
The ADEQ  plans on holding the public hearing for both permits on monday Nov. 19 in  Williams AZ.
at 7:00 pm.
I plan on being there.
Williams is located approx.
30 miles west of Flagstaff, AZ.
The address for the hearing is the Council  Chambers located at 113 south 1st street.
So far, there have been no  responses submitted to the ADEQ by the public.
In EPA's review process,  they  had a problem with methodology proposed by Transwestern for measuring  sulfur in the fuel gas.
We had proposed stain tubes in the custom fuel  monitoring schedule, they wanted us to do wet chemistry.
We convinced them  otherwise (Byron, because of this, you wont need to order a sulfur analyzer  for the Needles facility.
This should save you about $40K).
There was also  an issue with manufacturers quarantees regarding particulate matter emissions  from the turbine and catepillar.
This has been resolved also.
Stations 3 and 4.
I received a call from Roger Kohn, the permit engineer for  the EPA.
He is satisified with the permit application contents and has also  approved stain tubes for the sulfur measurement at these locations.
There  are no outstanding issues on these permits from the EPA.
The public comment  period for the Station 3 and 4 permits ends Nov.  3.
After this date, it  will take 1-2 weeks for the Regional Administrator of the EPA to sign off on  the permits  and then he will have them issued to Transwestern.
As of this  date, there have been no comments submitted to the EPA for the permits for  station 3 and or 4.
Ill keep everyone apprised of future events.
Subject: FYI, PCB mtg with SoCal

The third quarter PCB meeting with Southern California Gas Company was held  this morning.
SoCal presented a third quarter invoce of their PCB management  and disposal activities for which Transwestern is responsible for $120,602.19  (86%).
All charges were appropriate and considered normal operating expenses  for PCB activities in California.
On a similar note, while speaking to Ralph
Subject: Weekly Environemtnal Activity Report

The third quarter PCB meeting with Southern California Gas Company was held  this morning.
SoCal presented a third quarter invoce of their PCB management  and disposal activities for which Transwestern is responsible for  $120,602.19.
All charges were appropriate and considered normal operating  expenses for PCB activities in California.
The public hearing was held in Williams, AZ for the Kingman and Flagstaff air  permits under the Redrok Expansion.
There were no comments or concerns  brought up at the meeting as no individuals came to the meeting.
An email  was received from the ADEQ presenting the minor additions which will be added  to each permit.
Each comment and addition will not impact or change the  draft permits which were received earlier this month.
The permits for  Klagetoh and Luepp were received from the EPA last week.
The permits from  the ADEQ for the Kingman and Flagstaff C/S will be issued the later part of  this week.
Attended the incident investigation and technical writing workshop in Omaha.
Assisted the Mountainair team with the semiannual Title V compliance  monitoring report  for C/S No.7.
A meeting was held in Phoenix, Az with PG&E to review charges and invoices by  PG&E for PCB management and disposal activities on their system for the last  several months.
Also discussed was recent liquids sampling results and  proposed PCB activities on the PG&E system for 2002.
Subject: Conference Cal with Adewumi

This is just a short update on the conference call just completed with  Michael Adewumi of Penn State, concerning the PCB pipeline modeling project  proposed for the Transwestern mainline system.
David Roensch, Dr. Adewumi  and myself discussed the latest proposal submitted by Adewumi and based upon  his answers to the technical and operational questions, it appears that the  model will yeild some useful information.
Adewumi was asked about the  simultaneous modeling of PCB's and arsenic and feels that the model can  address this situation.
He felt that by initiating the model to the pipeline  segement  selected for the study (between C/S 4 and C/S3) this information  could be projected to the other pipeline segments with physical and  elevational conditions not represented in the segment selected.
As is the  case with most projects of this nature, answers to some questions cannot be  addressed until we begin the process.
It appears that the next step in this process is to have Mike Terraso contact  Michael Adewumi.
David Roensch and I will be available to feed technical and  operational information to Adewumi for his modeling input.
It may also be in  the best interest of this project  to see a team of technical and operational  experts from Enron and Transwestern begin a  brain stroming of this project  during the data input stage to address issues related to the field cleaning  trials, both of the pipeline system and the C/S piping.
By working through  the process, we may be able to alleviate some potential concerns  and  increase the cleaning success.
Although Transwestern has been involved in  this type of cleaning for a number of years, based upon the liquids data  results, the system has met with variable success.
The more technical and  operational information we can incorporate into the model, the better will be  the modeling conclusions and results of the  cleaning activity.
Subject: Results of the Environmental Meeting at C/S 6, Laguna

A meeting was held at C/S 6, Laguna on Tuesday November 16th, to reintroduce  the pueblo of Laguna to Transwestern's environmental activities at the  facility.
The Laguna's have hired an environmental person to oversee  environmental issues on pueblo lands.
The meeting centered around three  issues:  a UST site which had been removed, but not formally closed, a  historic removal of asbestos which had been buried at the facility in the  late 1980's, and the ongoing groundwater remediation at  the site.
Transwestern provided a history of the above mentioned activiites and why  these issues were unresolved in the "eyes" of the Laguna.
Transwestern  committed to submitting closure requests for the UST and asbestos issues.
With repsect to the groundwater issue, a presentation was given enlighting  the Laguna representative of the difficult nature of the subsurface geology  and groundwater characteristics to rapidly clean the contaminants  (chlorinated solvents and PCB's) and Transwestern's intent to continue its  remediation efforts.
Transwestern assured the Laguna environmental  representative that all correspondance and data pertaining to environmental  issues would be submitted to the pueblo agency.
At the conclusion of the  meeting, the Laguna's understood Transwestern's commitment to maintaining the  policies and practices consistent with the pueblo of Laguna.
The meeting provided Transwestern and the Laguna's with the opportunity to  meet and share ideas and opinions and initiate working relationships.
The  Laguna's now have an understanding of the environmental activities at the  site and what Transwestern's approach is to removing the contaminants.
The  Laguna's appreciated Transwestern's efforts and commitment to environmental  compliance on the Laguna pueblo.
Subject: Environmental Activity Report-Roswell Area

The state of Texas conducted an air quality inspection of the NNG Seminole  C/S.
There were no deficiencies or violations identified at the facilit  during the inspection.
The State of New Mexico Air Quality Bureau conducted an inspection of the  Transwestern Atoka No.
3 C/S.
The Agency conducted a record review and did  portable emissions testing of 3 of the 5 emissions units at the facility.
Although fuel use and a natural gas analysis were not available for the units  tested, emissions exceedances for NOx are expected for the 2 White Superiors  at the facility.
The State of New Mexico Air Quality Buureau conducted an inspection of the  Transwestern Atoka No.
2 C/S.
The agency conducted a portable emissions  testing of the two turbines and one recip at the facility.
Although fuel use  and a natural gas analysis was not available at the facility, all units  tested  appeared to be in compliance with the permit limits.
The agency  requested sulfur readings from the fuel gas as required under Subpart GG NSPS  for the last twelve months.
The Artesia team has contacted Gas Control in  Houston for the for the monthly sulfur values at the facility.