Joe, great job. Thanks for your leadership on this far reaching industry
initiative.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Monroe, Joe [SMTP:joe.monroe@unocal.com]
> Sent:	Monday, December 17, 2001 8:14 PM
> To:	'Joe Monroe (E-mail)'; 'John Somerhalder (E-mail)'; 'Fred Fowler
> (E-mail)'; 'George M. Rootes (E-mail)'; 'Tom Miesner (E-mail)'; 'Stan
> Horton (E-mail)'; 'Cuba Wadlington (E-mail)'; 'David Lemmon (E-mail)';
> 'Dick Reiten (E-mail)'; 'Dick Rabinow (E-mail)'; 'Chris Helms (E-mail)';
> 'Phil Ackerman (E-mail)'; 'William Thacker (E-mail)'; 'Jeet Bindra
> (E-mail)'; 'Tony Botterweck (E-mail)'; 'Dave Parker (E-mail)'; 'Jerry
> Halvorsen (E-mail)'; 'Red Cavaney (E-mail)'; 'Bob Cave (E-mail)'; 'Ben
> Cooper (E-mail)'; 'phil.wright@williams.com'
> Cc:	'Marty Matheson (E-mail)'; 'Gay Friedmann (E-mail)'; 'Kyle Rogers
> (E-mail)'; 'Bert Kalisch (E-mail)'; 'Doug Freberg (E-mail)'
> Subject:	Meeting with the Honorable Norman Mineta
>
> Another tremendous milestone was achieved today with our face to face
> meeting with Secretary Mineta.  With him was Ellen Engleman, Stacey Gerard
> and Susan McColley.  From Industry was Fred Fowler, Tom Miesner, Mike
> Warren
> and myself.  From the Associations were Dave Parker, Kyle Rogers, Jerry
> Halvorsen, Gay Friedmann, and Ben Cooper.  The powerful message of our
> unified effort to take a proactive approach to pipeline legislation was
> delivered.  We discussed our support and requested Sec. Mineta to support
> the Young et. al. (soon to be delivered) bill that provides the non
> prescriptive approach to pipeline legislation.  We were assured that
> pipeline integrity rule making will be complete for liquid lines by year
> end
> and for gas lines by the end of the second quarter of 2002.  We have hit
> the
> home run to insure the success and to guarantee the safety of the pipeline
> industry for years to come.
> Happy Holidays to all.
>
> Regards,
> Joe