Message-ID: <31717868.1075843077242.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 10:00:00 -0700 (PDT) From: gavin.dillingham@enron.com To: filuntz@aol.com, liz@luntz.com, nicholas.o'day@enron.com, mike.dahlke@enron.com Subject: FERC Needs More Power Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: Gavin Dillingham X-To: joe Hartsoe@ENRON, Sandra McCubbin@EES, Susan Mara@EES, Paul Kaufman@ECT, Karen Denne@ENRON, Jeff Dasovich@EES, Mark Palmer@ENRON, James D Steffes@EES, Richard Shapiro@EES, Elizabeth Linnell@EES, Jeannie Mandelker@ECT, filuntz@aol.com, Mark A Schroeder@ENRON, Peter Styles@ECT, Liz@luntz.com, Mona L Petrochko@EES, Peggy Mahoney@EES, Rob Bradley@ENRON, Nicholas O'Day, Mike Dahlke X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Jeff_Dasovich_Dec2000\Notes Folders\California crisis--press X-Origin: DASOVICH-J X-FileName: jdasovic.nsf U.S. lawmakers should give federal regulators more authority to help right the shaky electricity industry restructuring process, according to a former U.S. congressman. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and not individual state agencies, should oversee the siting process for new power plants and interstate transmission line developments, former U.S. Rep Phil Sharp, an Indiana Democrat, said Tuesday at a Chicago conference.