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To: flatsville who wrote (103159)	5/18/2001 10:53:31 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 436258

Just finished skimming the proposal. whitehouse.gov It's 170 pages long but very broad and general, so it's a fast read. Quite interesting, really. The recommendations are repeated in an appendix at the back, from pp. 148-164. The following is from Chapter 7, which begins on p. 109: >> The NEPD Group recommends that the President direct the appropriate federal agencies to take actions to remove constraints on the interstate transmission grid and allow our nation’s electricity supply to meet the growing needs of our economy. Direct the Secretary of Energy, by December 31, 2001, to examine the benefits of establishing a national grid, identify transmission bottlenecks, and identify mea-sures to remove transmission bottlenecks. Direct the Secretary of Energy to work with FERC to relieve transmission constraints by encouraging the use of incentive rate-making proposals. Direct the federal utilities to determine whether transmission expansions are nec-essary to remove constraints. The Administration should review the Bonneville Power Administration’s (BPA’s) capital and financing requirements in the context of its membership in a regional RTO, and if additional Treasury financing appears war-ranted or necessary in the future, the Administration should seek an increase in BPA’s borrowing authority at that time. Direct the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with appropriate federal agencies and state and local government officials, to develop legislation to grant authority to obtain rights-of-way for electricity transmission lines, with the goal of creating a re-liable national transmission grid. Similar authority already exists for natural gas pipelines in recognition of their role in interstate commerce.<< The administration doesn't think generation is a federal issue, just transmission. Which makes sense to me, the commerce clause has to be triggered and it doesn't apply to purely intrastate matters. I haven't talked to my radical environmentalist lawyer friend out in Oregon about it yet, but I expect that he and his buddies are already making plans on how to bring these projects to a grinding halt. He showed me a map of the US that shows the habitat of the sage grouse (protected species) - pretty much all the federal land in the western continental US. I did get an email from him a couple of days ago soliciting contributions to the litigation fund.-g-