MINUTES 
          
           SENATE SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTRIC UTILITY RESTRUCTURING 
                            Monday, February 8, 1999 
                                     9:30 am 
                                 Senate Chamber 
          
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         Pursuant to a notice posted in accordance with Senate Rule  
         11.11, a public hearing of the Senate Special Committee on  
         Electric Utility Restructuring was held on Monday, February 8,  
         1999 in the Senate Chamber at Austin, Texas.   
          
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         MEMBERS PRESENT:                        MEMBERS ABSENT: 
         Senator David Sibley, Chairman          Senator Gonzalo  
                                                 Barrientos 
         Senator David Cain, Vice Chairman 
         Senator Kenneth Armbrister 
         Senator Teel Bivins 
         Senator Troy Fraser 
         Senator Jane Nelson 
          
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         The Chairman called the meeting to order at 9:40 am.  There  
         being a quorum present, the following business was transacted.   
          
         Chairman Sibley advised that the first invited witness would  
         be Pat Wood, Chairman of the Public Utility Commission, and  
         invited other Commissioners present to join Chairman Wood at  
         the witness table.  Commissioner Perlman joined Chairman Wood  
         but did not testify. 
          
         At 9:45 a.m. Senator Cain assumed the Chair.  Pat Wood spoke  
         to the members concerning non-ERCOT areas of Texas,  an issue  
         relating to SB 7 pending in Committee.  Chairman Wood  
         responded to members' questions and concerns. 
          
         Following Pat Wood's testimony, the Chairman called the  
         Investor Owned Utilities (IOU) panel to testify.  The  
         panelists were: 
          
              Kent Foster, Entergy, Little Rock, Arkansas 
              David Wilks, Southwestern Public Service, Amarillo, Texas 
              Mark Roberson, Central and South West, Dallas, Texas 
          
         At 12:15 pm, Senator Sibley resumed the Chair and the  
         panelists continued their testimony. Upon completion of the  
         IOU panel's testimony and response to members' questions,  
         Chairman Sibley recessed the hearing at 12:35 p.m. until 30  
         minutes after adjournment of the Senate. 
  
         At 2:30 p.m., Chairman Sibley reconvened the hearing and  
         called a panel of Cooperatives (Co-op) and Municipally Owned  
         Utilities (MOU) representatives to testify and respond to  
         members' questions and concerns. 
          
         The panelists were: 
          
              Robert Bryant, Golden Spread Electric Cooperative,  
         Amarillo, Texas 
              Robert Gross, East Texas Cooperatives, Marietta, Georgia 
              Alex Ty Cooke, City of Lubbock, Lubbock, Texas 
          
         There being no further business, at 3:35 pm Senator Sibley  
         moved that the Committee stand recessed subject to the call of  
         the Chairman.  Without objection, it was so ordered.   
          
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         Senator David Sibley, Chairman 
          
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         Barbara Henderson, Clerk