Paul Kaufman and I met earlier this week with Gov Geringer of Wyoming.  He is supportive of a single RTO though it is not clear that he favors a FERC mandate.  He will wlso be pulling together a small group of Western Govs to meet with Pat Wood to discuss the negative impacts of FERCs refund and rate cap proceedings on Western power markets outside of California.  He has asked us for two things (which I believe Paul, Sue L and Janel are working on):

Agenda and briefing paper we would propose for the Govs meeting with Wood
A "white paper: describing the burdens placed on western markets as a result of the price cap and refund processes.

Like most Western govs, Geringer has little tolerance for federal mandates but he is very well informed on energy issues, favors open markets and is very interested particularly in seeing the western power grid opened.  Geringer will also be participating in Bingamin's "panel" on or about Oct 9.

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Shelk, John  
Sent:	Thursday, August 30, 2001 3:50 PM
To:	Kean, Steven J.; Shapiro, Richard; Robertson, Linda; Steffes, James D.; Palmer, Mark A. (PR); Guerrero, Janel; Nicolay, Christi L.; Novosel, Sarah; Briggs, Tom
Cc:	Long, Chris; Shortridge, Pat; Burns, Stephen; Hamilton, Allison; Decker, Larry; Nersesian, Carin
Subject:	Draft Post-Labor Day Legislative Plan On RTOs


Attached for your review and any comments is a draft legislative action plan of initial steps to be taken on RTOs when Congress returns next week.  We will also be sending this draft plan to our lobbying consultants for their input and discussion at our meeting/conference call next Tuesday afternoon.  As always, your input is much appreciated.

John


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