This memo follows up on our discussion this morning.
With respect to the 15 million of increased VAR that the Board allocated to  Rick Buy and Jeff Skilling I propose the following:  1.
5 Million be allocated to EES and therefore remove EES's positions from  the Wholesale gas and power groups (This has already been done).
2.
Move the control and decision making of 5 Million of VAR each to the  trading heads of North America (Lavorato) and Europe (Sherriff).
3.
With respect to North America I intend to create a group called the  "Cross Commodity Trading Group" which will warehouse the 5 Million of VAR and  use it as it sees fit (I will run this group and currently be the only  employee).
This will start out as an administrative structure to use if we  need to throw more VAR at certain positions (I see the individual trading  groups staying within their VAR limits).
However, I do see the need for a  true cross commodity group that would search for low risk / high probability  trades accross the commodities that we trade.
This structure may help to  start us down this path.
Please let me know what you think.
John

VAR