` ATTORNEYS AT LAW
`August 11, 2003
`Via Electronic Filing
`Honorable Magalie R. Salas, Secretary
`Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
`Dockets Room, Room 1A, East
`888 First Street, N.E.
`Washington, D.C. 20426
`RE: Enron Power Marketing, Inc. and Enron Energy Services Inc.; Docket Nos.
`EL03180000 through EL03203000; ANSWER OF THE
`CALIFORNIA PARTIES
`Dear Ms. Salas:
`Enclosed, for filing with the Commission is the Answer of the California Parties to the
`various motions to dismiss and for clarification filed by certain parties in the abovecaptioned
`consolidated proceedings.
`Please acknowledge receipt and acceptance of this filing via electronic medium.
`If you have any questions concerning this filing, please direct them to me.
`Very truly yours,
` Lillian S. Harris
`Lillian S. Harris
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`Kevin J. McKeon
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`Thomas J. Sniscak
`Norman James Kennard
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`UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
`BEFORE THE
`FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION
`Enron Power Marketing, Inc. ) Docket No.
`EL03180000
`and Enron Energy Services Inc. )
`Aquila, Inc. ) Docket No. EL03181000
`City of Glendale, California ) Docket No. EL03182000
`City of Redding, California ) Docket No. EL03183000
`Colorado River Commission ) Docket No. EL03184000
`Constellation Power Source, Inc. ) Docket No. EL03185000
`Coral Power, LLC ) Docket No. EL03186000
`El Paso Merchant Energy, L.P. ) Docket No. EL03187000
`Eugene Water and Electricity Board ) Docket No. EL03188000
`Idaho Power Company ) Docket No. EL03189000
`Koch Energy Trading, Inc. ) Docket No. EL03190000
`Las Vegas Cogeneration, L.P. ) Docket No. EL03191000
`MIECO ) Docket No. EL03192000
`Modesto Irrigation District ) Docket No. EL03193000
`Montana Power Company ) Docket No. EL03194000
`Morgan Stanley Capital Group ) Docket No. EL03195000
`Northern California Power Agency ) Docket No. EL03196000
`PacifiCorp ) Docket No. EL03197000
`PECO ) Docket No. EL03198000
`Powerex Corporation ) Docket No. EL03199000
`(f/k/a British Columbia Power Exchange )
`Corporation) )
`Public Service Company of New Mexico ) Docket No. EL03200000
`Sempra Energy Trading Corporation ) Docket No. EL03201000
`TransAlta Energy Marketing (U.S.) Inc. ) Docket No. EL03202000
` and TransAlta Energy Marketing )
` (California), Inc. )
`Valley Electric Association, Inc. ) Docket No. EL03203000
`(Consolidated)
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`ANSWER OF
`THE CALIFORNIA PARTIES
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`Pursuant to Rule 213 of the Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules”) of the Federal
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`Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission), 18 C.F.R. §385.213 (2003), the California
`Parties1 hereby answer various motions for dismissal and motions for clarification related to the
`Commission’s June 25, 2003 Order 2 issued in these consolidated proceedings (hereinafter June
`25 Partnership Entities Order). In support hereof, the California Parties state as follows:
`I. BACKGROUND
`The Commission’s June 25 Partnership Entities Order finds that “based on a report by
`Commission Staff (Final Staff Report) and evidence and comments submitted by market
`participants, there is evidence that Enron Power Marketing, Inc and Enron Energy Services, Inc.
`(Enron) and a number of entities … (collectively Partnership Entities) worked in concert through
`partnerships, alliances or other arrangements (jointly, Partnerships) to engage in activities that
`constitute gaming and/or anomalous market behavior (Gaming Practices) in violation of the
`California Independent System Operator Corporation’s (ISO) and California Power Exchange’s
`(PX) tariffs during the period January 1, 2000 to June 20, 2001.” 3 The June 25 Partnership
`Entities Order also finds “that there is evidence that a number of Partnership Entities … appear
`to have had similar Partnerships, which could be attempts to engage in similar activities as the
`Enron partnerships.”4 The June 25 Partnership Entities Order is a companion order to that issued
`the same day in the “Gaming Practices Show Cause Order” 5 proceeding, where the Commission
`has found evidence of gaming of ISO and
`1 The California Parties are the People of the State of California ex rel. Bill Lockyer, Attorney General
`(Attorney General), the California Electricity Oversight Board (EOB), the California Public Utilities
`Commission (CPUC), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), and Southern California Edison
`Company (Edison).
`2 Enron Power Marketing, Inc. and Enron Energy Services, Inc. et al., 103 FERC ¶61,346 (2003).
`3 Id., 103 FERC at P 1 (2003).
`4 Id.
`5 American Electric Power Service Corp. et al., 103 FERC ¶61,345 (2003).
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`PX tariffs by certain Identified Entities and instituted a trialtype evidentiary proceeding to
`examine the evidence and impose appropriate remedies.
`The June 25 Partnership Entities Order directs the Partnership Entities to show cause, in a
`trialtype evidentiary proceeding to be held before an ALJ, why they should not be found to have
`engaged in the Gaming Practices (identified in the Gaming Practices Show Cause Order) in
`violation of the ISO’s and PX’s tariffs.6 The Partnership Entities have been directed to file show
`cause responses, including specifically enumerated revenue data with the Commission within
`thirty (30) days of the Order.
`The June 25 Partnership Entities Order instructs the ALJ “to hear evidence and render
`findings and conclusions quantifying the full extent to which the entities named herein may have
`been unjustly enriched as a result of their conduct.” 7 The ALJ may recommend the monetary
`remedy of disgorgement of unjust profits and “any other additional, appropriate nonmonetary
`remedies,” e.g. revocation of a Partnership Entity’s marketbased rate authority and revisions to a
`Partnership Entity’s code of conduct.”8
`The June 25 Partnership Entities Order explicitly permits the parties to introduce relevant
`evidence from the 100 Days Evidence proceeding in these dockets 9 and acknowledges that many
`parties in California and elsewhere in the West have sought a forum in which to address the
`6 Enron Power Marketing, Inc. and Enron Energy Services, Inc. et al., 103 FERC at PP 2 and 46.
`7 Id. at PP 2 and 48.
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`9 Id. at P 48 n.55.
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`issues raised in this proceeding. Finally, the June 25 Partnership Entities Order comes to the
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`conclusion that the joint market manipulation schemes in which the Partnership Entities appear
`to have engaged had “profound adverse impacts on market outcomes” and “violated the ISO and
`PX tariffs.”10
`II. ANSWER TO MOTIONS
` Various Partnership Entities responded to the June 25 Partnership Entities Order with
`pleadings that contain explicit or implicit motions for summary dismissal and motions for
`clarification.11 These motions fall into five categories: (1) motions which claim that the charges
`against a particular entity are lacking in factual basis;12 (2) motions which claim that the
`Commission has no jurisdiction over the charged entity and seek summary dismissal on that basis;13
`(3) motions to modify the procedural aspects of the order and which challenge consolidation of all
`of the show cause proceedings;14 (4) Enron’s explicit motion for clarification on the application of
`10 Id. at P 42.
`11 The implicit motions are contained in various entities’ requests for rehearing of the June 25
`Partnership Entities Order. The California Parties are not attempting to answer the requests for rehearing;
`they are answering explicit motions to dismiss and for clarification as well as implicit motions for
`summary dismissal. However, to the extent that the Commission disagrees, the California Parties request
`that the Commission accept this answer because it will assist in providing the Commission with a
`complete record, and in clarifying the arguments made on rehearing. The Commission’s rule at 18
`C.F.R. §385.213(a)(2)(2003) does not allow answers to requests for rehearing but, in certain situations,
`and for good cause shown, the Commission has permitted such answers. See Rocky Mountain Natural
`Gas Co., 93 FERC ¶61,178, at 61,574 (2000)(answer to request for rehearing permitted to ensure a
`complete record); PennsylvaniaNew JerseyMaryland Interconnection, et al. , 92 FERC ¶61,282, at 61,
`949 (2000)(answer to request for rehearing accepted where it would clarify the arguments and enhance
`the Commission’s understanding of the proceeding). Good cause exists to waive the rule against such
`answers here and the California Parties request that the Commission waive its rules and grant the
`California Parties leave to answer the rehearings, to the extent that the Commission disagrees that
`motions have been made in the various entities’ pleadings.
`12 Parties raising this issue include: City of Redding, California, Colorado River Commission of Nevada,
`Eugene Water & Electric Board, Indicated Partnership Entities, Northern California Power Agency,
`Modesto Irrigation District, and Sempra Energy Trading Corp.
`13 Parties making this claim include: City of Redding, California, Colorado River Commission of
`Nevada, Eugene Water & Electric Board, Northern California Power Agency, Modesto Irrigation
`District, and City of Glendale, California.
`14 Parties raising these issues include: Indicated Partnership Entities, PacifiCorp, and Sempra Energy
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`the Common Protective Order to the show cause responses; and (5) a motion to amend caption filed
`by PacifiCorp and PPM Energy, Inc. alleging improper naming of respondents.15
`The California Parties respond to each of these categories of motions in tandem below
`and submit that each of the motions should be denied.
`A. The Commission Had An Adequate Factual Basis Upon Which To Issue
`Orders To Show Cause To The Partnership Entities.
`The Commission has already rejected the arguments made by the movants with respect to
`the show cause orders lacking an adequate factual basis [such as that relating to prima facie
`burden of proof in the context of show cause orders] in Enron Power Marketing, Inc., et al. 16
`Based on the facts set forth in the Staff Final Report, the California Parties’ evidence submitted
`in the 100 Days of Discovery, and in the Show Cause Orders, there is ample evidence that the
`Partnership Entities participated in alliances, partnerships or other arrangements to engage in
`activities that constitute gaming and/or anomalous market behavior.
`As is wellknown, the Commission based its conclusion to issue orders to show cause to
`the Partnership Entities upon the ISO and PX tariff provisions, the ISO’s market study, the
`Commission’s March 2003 Western Markets Report,17 and evidence and comments submitted by
`market participants.18 Aside from the ample evidence before it to name the Partnership Entities
`and issue the show cause orders, the Commission has provided adequate notice to the parties of
`15 PacifiCorp and PPM Energy, Inc. filed a standalone motion to amend the caption in addition to
`PacifiCorp’s Request for Rehearing which contains arguments that are tantamount to motions.
`16 103 FERC ¶ 61,343 at P 41 (2003).
`17 See Final Report on Company–Specific Separate Proceedings and Generic Reevaluations; Published
`Natural Gas Price Data; and Enron Trading Strategies: FactFinding Investigation of Potential
`Manipulation of Electric and Natural Gas Prices (Docket No. PA022000, March 2003) (Western
`Markets Report).
`18 103 FERC ¶61,345 at P 1.
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`the allegations against them for purposes of filing responses. Most importantly, the Commission
`has appropriately set all of these matters for hearing where an administrative law judge will sort
`out the facts and make determinations regarding appropriate remedies after all participants have
`an opportunity to be heard on the evidence. The Commission does not need further “he said, she
`said” on the facts at this juncture nor should such important issues be decided in a summary
`manner as the movants ask. The hearing process will be the vehicle to sort out all of the facts
`and arrive at a full and fair determination.
`For each of these reasons, the explicit and implicit motions to dismiss employing a “lack
`of a factual basis to charge” should be denied.
`B. The Commission’s Prior Decisions Support a Finding of Limited Jurisdiction
`Over Governmental Entities – They Should Not Be Dismissed From The
`Case.
`Several of the Partnership Entities which are governmental entities, have filed explicit
`motions to dismiss or have made arguments that are tantamount to motions for summary
`dismissal on the basis that the Commission lacks jurisdiction to impose remedies upon them.
`The Commission reiterated in the June 25 Partnership Entities Order that its jurisdiction over the
`governmental entities was based on the same rationale which it applied in its July 25, 2001 Order
`in the San Diego refund proceeding,19 as reiterated in its December 19, 2001 Order in the same
`proceeding.20 Basically, the Commission determined that the disgorgement of unjust profits for
`the preOctober 2, 2000 period should apply to sales made by governmental entities because,
`“the subject matter of the affected transactions: wholesale sales of electric energy and interstate
`19 San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. All Sellers, et al., 96 FERC ¶ 61,120 (2001) (July 25, 2001 Order).
`20 San Diego Gas & Electric Co. v. All Sellers, et al., 97 FERC ¶ 61,275 (2001) (December 19, 2001
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`commerce through a Commissionregulated centralized clearing house that set a market clearing
`price for all wholesale seller participants, including [governmental entities]” renders the sales by
`those governmental entities jurisdictional.
`The Partnership Entities make the same tired arguments here as the Commission has
`heard on this issue for the last two years. There is no new or different basis for the Commission
`to change course now. Accordingly, the explicit and implicit motions for summary dismissal on
`this jurisdictional issue should be denied.
`C. The Commission Has Not Improperly Shifted The Burden Of Proof To The
`Partnership Entities, Has Established A Process Where All Participants’
`Assertions Of Fact Can Be Tested And Has Properly Consolidated These
`Cases For Decision.
`Several of the Partnership Entities complain that the Commission has inappropriately
`shifted the burden of proof and/or the burden of going forward onto them by requiring that they
`file responses to the show cause order and they move for modification of the procedures required
`by the Order. Some of the Partnership Entities also complain that their due process rights are
`being violated because these cases have been consolidated for hearing and request that they be
`“unconsolidated.” All of these contentions are baseless and should be rejected.
`The Partnership Entities’ complaints miss the point that the cases have been set for trial.
`Thus, all of the evidence which Trial Staff, the California Parties,21 and any party seeks to submit
`into the record will be subject to scrutiny through discovery procedures and the crucible of cross
`21 Sempra and Indicated Partnership Entities request clarification that the Commission Trial Staff will
`present its evidence of a prima facie case before the Partnership Entities present their evidence. The June
`25 Partnership Entities Order expressly provided for intervention by parties interested in pursuing claims
`against the Partnership Entities. Accordingly, should the Commission choose to clarify any of the trial
`procedures in this case, it should make abundantly clear that the California Parties and other Intervenors
`will be permitted an opportunity to submit evidence in addition to that submitted by the Commission
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`examination. Furthermore, as noted above, the Commission had a sufficient factual basis upon
`which to issue its show cause orders and to seek responses from the various Partnership Entities.
`Conclusions will not be reached solely on the basis of those responses since clearly, the hearing
`procedures established in these cases will allow for testing of the evidence.
`Finally, some Partnership Entities have moved to “unconsolidate” these proceedings.
`These requests should be denied. The California Parties have consistently argued that the
`Commission should have created a new phase of the San Diego refund proceeding to consider
`the 100 Days evidence submitted by the California Parties on March 3 and March 20 as well as
`the responsive evidence submitted by market participants. While the Commission has taken a
`different tack here, it at least has consolidated these numerous proceedings for trial. 22 The cases
`should not be fractured and compartmentalized further. The arguments that consolidation will
`result in some Partnership Entities’ claims getting lost in the shuffle is a red herring and should
`be ignored.
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`D. The Commission Should Make the Common Protective Order
`Applicable to These Consolidated Proceedings, But Not All Materials
`Submitted By the Partnership Entities Should Be Deemed Protected
`Materials.
`Enron explicitly requests clarification that “the Protective Order adopted in the California
`Refund proceeding and related dockets . . . also governs filings in Response to the June 25
`[Partnership Entities] Order”. The California Parties support the concept of having the Common
`22 The Commission consolidates cases where common issues of fact and law are present and where
`administrative efficiencies would be served. See e.g., Big West Oil, LLC, 100 FERC ¶61,171, at 61,606
`07 (2002); American Transmission Co. LLC, 95 FERC ¶61,324, at 62,150 (2001); California
`Independent System Operator Corp., et al., 94 FERC ¶61,147 at 61,558 (2001). There is no valid dispute
`that there are common issues of fact and law under consideration in these cases and that efficient
`management of these cases not only counsels, but in fact requires their consolidation.
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`Protective Order23 apply to these proceedings. 24 They do not, however, concede thereby that all
`materials filed in response to the show cause orders are automatically considered “Protected
`Materials” as that term is defined in the Common Protective Order. The Commission should
`carefully so note in acting on Enron’s request for clarification.
`E. The Commission Should Retain PacifiCorp And Add PPM Energy, Inc. to
`The Partnership Entities Named In Docket No. EL03197000.
`PacifiCorp and PPM Energy, Inc. (PPM) filed a motion to amend caption which is
`tantamount to a motion for summary disposition and dismissal as to PacifiCorp. The motion
`claims that PacifiCorp was erroneously named as the respondent in the June 25 Partnership
`Entities Order.25 The California Parties disagree that PacifiCorp is an improper respondent.
`While PPM should also be named, PacifiCorp should not be released. As evidence supplied by
`the California Parties in their March 3 Filing and PacifiCorp's own admission to a data request
`issued by FERC on May 8, 2002 in Docket No. PA022 shows, on a number of occasions,
`PacifiCorp (not its affiliate, PPM) provided a parking (or “buyresell") service for a fee that
`facilitated Ricochet or false import transactions.26 In essence, PacifiCorp was providing a service
`similar to that which was provided by PNM – a current respondent in Commission Docket No.
`EL03200. As PNM’s conduct was deemed
`23 See San Diego Gas & Elec. Co., 103 FERC ¶ 63,059 (2003).
`24 The California Parties in fact have requested the Commission to issue an order clarifying this point.
`California Parties’ Motion for Clarification That the Common Protective Order Applies to All Related
`Dockets, filed in numerous dockets on July 1, 2003.
`25 The California Parties filed an errata on March 11, 2003 that corrected portions of their March 3
`Filing. Among other things, the California Parties changed PacifiCorp to PPM as an entity that
`purchased parking services from Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM). However, the errata
`did not affect the California Parties’ testimony and evidence that demonstrated that PacifiCorp was one
`of the numerous entities that provided parking services to other market participants as part of various
`Ricochet strategies.
`26 See CA1 at 119121, 123124; CA2 at 87; CA74; CA94; CA179, CA188, CA332 at 5.
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`sufficiently egregious for the Commission to launch a show cause investigation, so should
`PacifiCorp’s largely identical conduct. Based on this evidence, PacifiCorp should not be
`dismissed as a respondent in Docket No. EL03197 and PPM should be added to the
`Commission’s list of respondents.
`III. CONCLUSION
`WHEREFORE, the California Parties respectfully request that the Commission deny the
`motions to dismiss and for clarification filed by the various Partnership Entities in this consolidated
`proceeding.
`Dated: August 11, 2003 Respectfully submitted,
` Michael D. Mackness
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`Michael D. Mackness
`Southern California Edison Company
`2244 Walnut Grove Avenue
`Rosemead, CA 91770
`Attorneys for
`Southern California Edison Company
` Kermit R. Kubitz
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`Joshua BarLev
`Mark D. Patrizio
`Kermit R Kubitz
`Pacific Gas and Electric Company
`77 Beale Street, B30A
`P. O. Box 7442
`San Francisco, CA 94120
`Attorneys for the
`Pacific Gas and Electric Company
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`Erik N. Saltmarsh, Chief Counsel
`Sidney Mannheim, Senior Staff Counsel
`California Electricity Oversight Board
`770 L Street, Suite 1250
`Sacramento, CA 95814
`Attorneys for the
`California Electricity Oversight Board
` Vickie P. Whitney
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`Bill Lockyer
`Attorney General of the State of
`California
`Peter Siggins
`Chief Deputy Attorney General
`Tom Greene
`Senior Assistant Attorney General
`Vickie P. Whitney
`Deputy Attorney General
`1300 I Street, Suite 125
`Sacramento, CA 95814
` Sean H. Gallagher
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`Lionel B. Wilson
`Arocles Aguilar
`Sean H. Gallagher
`Laurence Chaset
`Public Utilities Commission of the State
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`505 Van Ness Avenue, Room 5035
`San Francisco, CA 94102
`Attorneys for the
`Public Utilities Commission of the State of
`California
` Lillian S. Harris
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`Kevin J. McKeon
`Lillian S. Harris
`Craig R. Burgraff
`Malatesta Hawke & McKeon LLP
`Harrisburg Energy Center
`100 North Tenth Street
`P.O. Box 1778
`Harrisburg, PA 17101
`Attorneys for the
`People of the State of California, ex
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`CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
`I hereby certify that I have caused the foregoing document to be served via first class
`mail, postage prepaid, upon each person designated on the official service lists compiled by the
`Secretary for these proceedings.
`Dated at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, this 11th day of August, 2003.
` Lillian S. Harris
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`Lillian S. Harris
`Malatesta Hawke & McKeon LLP
`Harrisburg Energy Center
`100 North Tenth Street
`P. O. Box 1778
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