
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 05:33:00 -0800 (PST)
From: mary.hain@enron.com
To: joe.hartsoe@enron.com, christian.yoder@enron.com, alan.comnes@enron.com,
james.steffes@enron.com, tom_delaney@enron.com,
marcie.milner@enron.com, paul.kaufman@enron.com,
steve.walton@enron.com, steve.c.hall@enron.com,
elizabeth.sager@enron.com, richard.ingersoll@enron.com
Subject: Seams - Western Connection Interface (WIO)

Because WIO will be deciding issues involving the primary congested paths in
the West, I believe the issues to be resolved by WIO may be very important.
Accordingly, I have argued in-house (to anyone who will listen) that we
should be arguing that WIO should be independent.  I don't believe that it is
independent, it's a stakeholder board, like California and the WSCC, both of
which we have had problems with.

Historically, a number of people have worked on WIO.  Tom worked on it for a
while.  Recently, I think Marcie Milner has been monitoring the meetings.  I
think Steve Walton and DIck Ingersoll may also be following WIO to some
degree.  Also Jim has suggested to Alan that he might want to be following
"seams" issues.  A while ago Marcie asked me to review the governance
structure.  I told her that I didn't like the lack of independence and
suggested that we oppose it.  Nonetheless, I believe I was told that we had
already agreed to it.

