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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Berliner who wrote (3160)	1/5/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: John Mansfield	Respond to of 9818

'"Please be advised that the Electric Power Industry has scheduled a press conference on the Year 2000 State of Readiness for the Electric Industry in North America on January 11, 1999, 1:30 PM at the National Press Club in Washington D.C. At this press conference, North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC) will present to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson the electric industry's second report on its state of readiness for the year 2000. John Koskinen, Chair of the President's Council on the Year 2000 Conversion will participate in the press conference. NERC will be hosting the event and will be joined by its partners in the process which includes the Edison Electric Institute, Nuclear Energy Institute, American Public Power Association, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and others. A copy of the first report, "Preparing the Electric Power Systems of North America for the Transition to the Year 2000" which was presented to the Department of Energy on September 17, 1998, is available from NERC (www.NERC.COM) & EEI (www.EEI.ORG) web sites along with other electric industry year 2000 related information. The latest (January 1999) Y2k report will be updated on the Web sites during the afternoon of January 11, 1999. It is anticipated that the event will be covered by C-SPAN. " Cheers, AGF remarq.com (b.t.w. Paul, thanks)