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To: Tim J. Flick who wrote (17604)	5/25/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: eleebee	Respond to of 31646

Tim, I agree. Scott has responded to TAVA's needs in a responsible manner. Way back even TMex apologized to Scott for the same re- sponces we are now getting. What is happening is not Scott's fault. Mark

To: Tim J. Flick who wrote (17604)	5/25/1998 4:22:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

TAVA mentioned in COMPUTERWORLD - 'electric utility industry consulting firm' I just love this one ;-). Say this again to yourself: 'electric utility industry consulting firm' John _________ Richard Cowles, year 2000 analyst at TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, an electric utility industry consulting firm in Penns Grove, N.J (News, 05/18/98) Utilities' systems aren't likely to be fixed by 2000 Matt Hamblen Electric utilities probably won't be 100% ready to supply power to the nation's businesses and homes on Jan. 1, 2000, because of computer problems, federal officials concluded at a congressional hearing last week. In fact, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will have to shut down more than 10% of the nation's nuclear plants after July 1999 because their systems won't be ready to handle the date rollover to 2000, said Richard Cowles, year 2000 analyst at TAVA/R.W. Beck LLC, an electric utility industry consulting firm in Penns Grove, N.J. "I'm seeing power companies back down from their original optimistic statements [of readiness]," Cowles said. He noted the prospect of power outages in the Mid-Atlantic and Chicago areas if a significant number of utilities can't operate in January 2000 because the areas lack alternate generating capacity. At the hearing, held by the U.S. House Science Committee's Subcommittee on Technoogy, U.S. Rep. Connie Morella (R-Md.) expressed frustration with the slow pace of progress and said it is clear the electric utility industry won't be 100% ready by January 2000. "Why are we waiting so long to do assessment and to do inspections?" Morella asked Hugh L. Thompson Jr., a deputy director at the commission. Thompson responded that the NRC had been working on the year 2000 problem for two years and recently ordered the owners of 104 nuclear power plants to file compliance status reports by August. The NRC will then inspect a sampling of those power plants least prepared. By July 1999, all nuclear plants must be ready or they may be shut down for safety reasons, Thompson said. He also assured the committee that if a plant fails to operate because of a year 2000 glitch, it will shut itself down safely. Kathleen M. Hirning, chief information officer at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said that with nearly 8,000 companies distributing or generating power in the U.S. and the high frequency of embedded devices in computerized plant systems, "it's difficult to say we're confident there's going to be 100% working systems." www2.computerworld.com