SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Electric Utility Restructuring (Interim)

TIME & DATE: 10:00AM, Friday, December 12, 1997

PLACE: Amarillo, Texas

CHAIR: Senator David Sibley

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Amarillo Botanical Gardens Auditorium
1400 Streit Drive
Amarillo, Texas

The committee will meet to discuss and take testimony on the following:

The basic structural requirements for the competitive market to serve
as an effective and efficient replacement for traditional regulation.

Scope and nature of the continuing role of regulation in a deregulated
electric power industry including oversight of market power.


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