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RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the
City of Port Angeles expressing the
City's opposition to the proposed
settlement agreement between the
Bonneville Power Administration and
the four investor-owned utilities
in BPA v. WPPSS, United States
District Court, Western District of
Washington at Seattle, No. C82-1252.
WHEREAS, the City of Port Angeles is a party defendant
to BPA v. WPPSS, et aI, United States District Court, Western
District of Washington at Seattle, No. C82-1252, which lawsuit
pertains to the completion of nuclear power plant WNP 3 and in
which lawsuit the City is a member of a coordinated defense
effort known as the Small Utilities Group; and
WHEREAS, BPA and the four investor-owned utilities,
which have cross-claimed for damages due to the mothballing of
WNP 3, have negotiated a proposed settlement agreement, which
agreement appears to adversely affect BPA's preference customers
and thereby violates one of the principles of negotiation
established by BPA in November, 1984; and
WHEREAS, the proposed agreement appears to increase the
likelihood that Project 3 will be terminated rather than com-
pleted; and
WHEREAS, the proposed agreement gives the four investor
owned utilities a better deal than they would have gotten under
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the original WNP 3 agreements and burdens the preference customer
with numerous unanswered and perhaps unanswerable questions about
the ultimate impact of this agreement on them; and
WHEREAS, the decisions of Judge Bilby, the original
judge assigned to this litigation, which decisions were in favor
of the four investor-owned utilities and held that BPA was in
breach of the WNP 3 agreements, have been vacated by the newly
assigned Judge Browning.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council
hereby expresses its opposition to the proposed settlement
agreement between the Bonneville Power Administration and the
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four investor-owned utilities in the case of BPA v. WPPSS, et al,
United States District Court, Western District of Washington at
Seattle, No. C82-1252; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council does not
disagree with the concept of settlement; however, any settlement
should be the product of meaningful input, negotiation, and
agreement of all parties to the BPA v. WPPSS, et al, litigation.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Angeles
at a regular meeting of said Council held on the ~day of
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, 1985.
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