1. L. David Glatt North Dakota Department of Health Environmental Health Section

5.  Potential to Achieve IF:  Time to develop strategy and business plans  Address Significant Investments and Obligations  Bridge from current conditions to future energy plan  Impacts on Reliability and Cost  Develop Technology  Transmission

6. > Historically an ongoing process  Coal Drying  New Turbines > 6 Percent Unrealistic under current proposal

7.  How to credit new development?  In a load growth climate new development may not replace existing coal generation.

8.  How will it be credited?  Who will decide?  Wind potential in North Dakota

9.  Efficiency program implemented by industry are currently dealing with reducing peak demand issues  Timing to allow for legislation

10.  Adequate time to develop comprehensive plans  Enforceability of Multi State Plans  How to address multiple agency jurisdiction  State Public Service Commission  Federal FERC/NERC/RTO  How to address multiple plan types  EPA Jurisdiction  Allow time for litigation to take place

11.  Propose (tentative) not comprehensive or final:  Eliminate interim goal  Set compliance date for 2030  Allow for applicable technology, reliability and cost review by the state  Provide Certainty for future actions-regulations  Interim plan review  Do not change proposed goal for North Dakota  Allow for credit of all Natural Gas development to meet demand