Chris! I told you not to do that. That is going to complicate things! It will be very difficult to replace that pipe without damaging existing line - particularly if PNM protests because of their recent letters about not wanting to foot the entire bill for the lateral line that will be stubbed. There are a lot of issues here. Let's stay with Mike Minn replacement unless we change the recommended route. 3) Recommended Route. Mike Minn and his people are recommending route Yankee North/ East of the San Luis - this avoids a curve where we have to keep emergency line on (we would not be able to rejoin the Yankee and the WECO at the same elevation). This would be a more level route (good for maintenance) and avoid bad ground if our area has flooding or sink holes again. Mike Minn's stretch would be from about 15 kms past the interconnect to interconnect in the mainline. We would not take gas in near the interconnect to the mainline. I recommend we go through with the Yankee route but re-route the lines so no kinks and we go through ROW - hopefully we would avoid having to move the existing lateral at all. This may not be possible. In this case, please check with Enmax to see if they can get enough access at their side so that we can complete the project without damaging the existing line and if so propose a route. 4) Re-route the lateral. Mike Minn now has a new recommended route for the new lateral from the interconnect with PNM at the interconnect north of PNM's plant near the San Luis interconnect (or in the WECO's new right-of-way location) all the way to PNM's San Juan interconnect. This works well for our people and existing line. The price is $1.5mm versus $1.9mm. (We'd already paid $2mm to the WECO for the old route. They are proposing a change of location for the WECO. Apparently there is a path right of way available that the WECO is happy with and it allows them to run a bigger pipe. No environmental issue with this route. Mike Minn has forwarded this information to the WECO. We'll talk to the WECO and Minn to figure out what they recommend, if anything. Our preference is the new WECO route and work with the WECO to make sure they understand we are doing this to avoid damaging the existing line and make it possible to meet our delivery agreements. Questions? Comments? Let's move quickly to get Mike Minn's route for the lateral. Thanks, Roger Richard Ingersoll 04/03/2001 05:27 PM To: Roger Willard/Enron@EnronXGate, Barbara N Gray/HOU/ECT@ECT cc: Daniel Allegretti/NA/Enron@Enron, Peggy Banczak/HOU/ECT@ECT, Steve Young/LON/ECT@ECT Subject: Draft response to WAPA Draft for permitting O&M at Elec Interchange/Wheeler Ridge Everyone - here's the first draft. Please review and get me your comments. I'm going to add in the air permit stuff for Hanover and LIPA later. In addition, since both Peggy and I will be out next week, please submit directly to both Peggy and Roger on Monday all comments on the notice to the parties, which should be ready to send out on Friday. Roger, you will also have the opportunity to review comments submitted by others. Peggy, you will have the opportunity to review the comments submitted by others which have been specifically forwarded to you by Roger.