[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 138 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1829]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




  COMMENDING PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO. AND THE MONTEREY BAY FUTURES 
                                NETWORK

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                             HON. SAM FARR

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                      Saturday, September 28, 1996

  Mr. FARR of California. Mr. Speaker, Monterey County and many 
northern California areas have been challenged by military base 
closings and resulting job loss. In Monterey County, local government 
and business leaders have worked together to develop economic plans for 
base conversion and the future. A key participant was Pacific Gas and 
Electric Co. [PG&E], which for its role was honored with the Edison 
Electric Institute's Common Goals Award for customer satisfaction.
  Tapan Munroe, PG&E's chief economist and manager of community 
economic vitality initiatives, came to Washington to receive the award 
from EEI President Thomas R. Kuhn in a Capitol Hill Ceremony.
  PG&E's local manager chaired the effort that founded the Monterey Bay 
region Futures Network, called FUTURES, a nonprofit organization 
dedicated to improving the economic vitality of our region while 
maintaining environmental quality and the social quality of life.
  Bruce R. Gritton, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, 
who is president of FUTURES, says a PG&E-sponsored study ``Vision and 
Strategies for Shaping the Monterey Region's Economic Future,'' 
provides FUTURES' conceptual anchor. Rob Stump, of PG&E's Monterey 
Division, continues to serve as a FUTURES officer. After the study, the 
University of California at Santa Cruz, opened the Monterey Bay Science 
and Technology Center at Fort Ord, the first reuse of the former 
military base.
  I commend everyone involved in FUTURES Network for all of their good 
work for Monterey County. Congratulations to PG&E on winning the EEI 
Common Goals Award.

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