Problem: BODY: Paul Kaufman phoned with the following brief report from the Western Governor's Association "Energy Summit" that took place today. Paul will follow up with more detail when he gets back to a computer. The governors issued the following recommendations: California should immediately implement FERC's order issued last Friday and aggressively pursue all available DSM and conservation opportunties. The Western region should likewise be much more aggressive in identifying and implementing DSM and efficiency opportunities. Increase supply as soon as possible. FERC should do an investigation into the potentially negative effects that price caps can cause in the industry. FERC should add to its investigations an investigation into what caused the price spikes in the first week of December. Work with the Bush transition team to make sure that someone from the new administration is focused on the issue. Hoecker said that he is not inclined to impose a region-wide cap until California takes the actions it needs to take to help alleviate the situation (e.g., reforming regs governing utility forward contracts). Jeff
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A: SUBJECT: Summary of Western Gov's Energy Summit

Problem: BODY: Please plan to attend a meeting on Wednesday, October 17, 1:30 - 5:00p in EB-1336 to discuss Transwestern's West Texas Leg Strategy and Northern's Southend Strategy. The discussions will also focus on what Richardson Products and/or ENA plan to do in the Permian/Waha areas. Please call Kim Watson @ ext. 33098 or Mark McConnell @ ext. 57896 if you are unable to attend. Thanks in advance,
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A: SUBJECT: TW's West Texas Leg & NNG's Southend Strategy Meeting

Problem: BODY: The Government Affairs group is involved in diverse and complex activities. Tracking and quantifying these activities is important for several obvious reasons - to keep upper management apprised of our activities; to illustrate the value added and risk managed by our group; and to keep each other properly informed so that we can better coordinate our efforts. Currently, these activities take place on an ad-hoc manual basis, which is time-consuming and inefficient. We have a tool already in place to track our activities - the Project Tracking database in Lotus Notes. Currently this application is used primarily for RCR's, but beginning November 1, 2001, the Government Affairs group will use this application to track all projects and efforts - replacing the need for manual updated spreadsheets and activity quantification "fire-drills". The Projects have several features to allow capture of sub-sets of information, including Updates, Risk, Origination and Valuation. ** Please note that this will become the only way that we'll gather this information. In other words, if you don't enter your data into Project Tracking, we won't know what you're doing! **( all other reports will be eliminated) The current Lotus Notes application will be discontinued as of October 31,2001 and will be converted to a web-based product. You'll find the web-based version as easy or even easier to use than Lotus Notes. Additionally, conversion to a new database structure will allow for more versatile report extraction. Before the conversion of the project data from Lotus Notes to Oracle, we need to do some data cleanup. Please expect a call in the next two weeks from Elizabeth Linnell, Bryan Gottfredson, or Darran Binns to schedule some time with you in person or on the phone regarding your current project list, additional projects to add, and a brief overview of the new system. Please feel free to call me if you have any questions and/or concerns.
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SUBJECT: Database Tracking of Activities