This just in from Ali Haverty & Bill Howley (Calhoun Cnty).
Please continue to pass along this information!!
Thanks!

My best always,
Tina Rappaport,Calhoun

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From: Haverty Family <haverty6@frontiernet.net>
Date: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 8:02 AM
Subject: Fwd: [WVaPATH] A little more info on HB4403

Update from Bill on our first little victory is below, please read! As he mentions below, 4403 is now on the EIL agenda for Feb. 24 because of you and many others across the state doing a little something! Bill mentions below that it is important to contact the whole committee, let's start with Walker and reply to the group if you get any word from him. Or if you have good info on another delegate, let's share to save time and resources. Any other suggestion anyone?

Thanks to all, Ali

Energy, Industry & Labor/ Economic Development & Small Business Committee

Committee Members

Delegate Barker - Chair Energy, Industry and Labor larry.barker@wvhouse.gov 304 340-3149

Delegate Shaver - Vice-Chair Energy, Industry and Labor sshaver@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3146 placed 4403 on agenda

Delegate Kominar - Chair Economic Development and Small Business kominar@verizon.net 304 340-3186

Delegate Craig - Vice-Chair Economic Development and Small Business kjcraigwv@aol.com 304 340-3350

Delegate Sobonya - Minority Chair Energy, Industry and Labor sobonya4wvhouse@aol.com 304 340-3175

Delegate Miller, C. - Minority Vice-Chair Energy, Industry and Labor carolmil@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3176

Delegate Blair - Minority Chair Economic Development and Small Business craig@delegatecraigblair.com 304 340-3122

Delegate Andes - Minority Vice-Chair Economic Development and Small Business tandes@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3121

Delegate Brown bbrown1@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3106

Delegate Butcher gbutcher@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3113

Delegate Caputo mike.caputo@wvhouse.gov 304 340-3249

Delegate Fleischauer barbaraf@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3169 co-sponser of 4403

Delegate Guthrie nguthrie@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3156

Delegate Klempa oklempa@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3378

Delegate Mahan vmahan@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3102

Delegate Manypenny mmany@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3139 co-sponser of 4403

Delegate Marshall chmarsh@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3900 supports 4403

Delegate Martin dmartin1@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3134

Delegate Paxton bpaxton@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3337

Delegate Skaff dskaff@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3362

Delegate Walker dwalker@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3135 Calhoun/Clay delegate

Delegate Hamilton bhamilt@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3167

Delegate McGeehan mcgeehan@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3120

Delegate Schoen pschoen@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3141

Delegate Shott jhshott@mail.wvnet.edu 304 340-3179

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From: Bill Howley <billhowley@hughes.net>

Date: February 15, 2010 7:04:27 PM EST

To: WVaPATH

Subject: [WVaPATH] A little more info on HB4403

Del. Stan Shaver, acting chairman of the House Energy, Industry & Labor Committee, is in a bit of a bind. Chairman Barker had most of his committee meeting agendas set for the next week or so with bills that the Chairman wanted to take up. Del. Shaver is on our side, but he also does not want to make Chairman Barker mad by bumping a bill Del. Barker wanted.

I have just heard that Del. Shaver was able to put 4403 on the EIL Committee's agenda for Wednesday, Feb. 24. That is great, because that is E-Day when a lot of us will be at the Capitol. Del. Shaver made the extra effort and went to House Speaker Rick Thompson to get permission to hold a special committee meeting to consider some extra bills pending in the committee, including 4403.

Between now and Feb. 24, we need to call all the EIL committee members to urge them to support HB4403.

Here are some talking points to use:

4403 will protect the rights of property owners by giving them individual notice at the beginning of the PSC process so they can participate in the transmission line case.

New transmission projects that will be coming before the PSC are bigger regional lines with multi-state impacts. 4403 would require that the PSC put the interests of WV consumers and land owners ahead of power companies' regional profit making ventures.

New transmission projects have wide ranging impacts. 4403 will require the PSC to consider the full range of these impacts when they decided on certificates of need.
Try to stay away from discussion of specific power line projects like TrAIL and PATH. Don't focus on issues like coal or other environmental issues.

4403 is about giving property owners the ability to protect their property and for West Virginians to participate fully in the PSC process leading to better outcomes in the future. This bill is about the PSC and how it operates. That is what legislators will want to know about. If we stay focused on the PSC process, we can win a lot of supporters who may not understand all of the complexities of PATH and TrAIL.

Keep it simple. Stay focused on the talking points.

Two or three votes next Wednesday in the EIL Committee will make us or break us. Start by calling some of the committee members who you don't think will support us. Call a few who you think might need to know more about it. Don't waste a lot of time talking to people who will already vote for the bill like Barbara Fleishauer or Charlene Marshall. Concentrate on the people we will need to convince. We discovered today with Stan Shaver that phone calls matter. He would never have gone out of his way to talk to the House Speaker if he hadn't heard from a lot of people in the last few days about 4403.

Keep up the good work.

Bill

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