IATAN UNIT 2 AND COMMON FACILITIES OWNERSHIP AGREEMENT KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, AQUILA, INC., THE EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY, KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC. AND MISSOURI JOINT MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY COMMISSION May 19, 2006
Exhibit
10.2.a
KANSAS
CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY,
AQUILA,
INC.,
THE
EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY,
KANSAS
ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC.
AND
MISSOURI
JOINT MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY COMMISSION
May
19, 2006
TABLE
OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE
I
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Definitions
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2
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1.1
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Accounting
Manual
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2
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1.2
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Actual
Emissions
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2
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1.3
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Actual
Fuel Costs
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2
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1.4
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Additional
Unit
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3
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1.5
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Adverse
Action
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3
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1.6
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Agreement
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3
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1.7
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Agreements
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3
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1.8
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Allowance
Contribution
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3
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1.9
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Allowances
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3
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1.10
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Appraised
Value
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4
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1.11
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Aquila
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4
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1.12
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Arrangements
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4
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1.13
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Bankruptcy
Code
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4
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1.14
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Cash
Flow Memorandum
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4
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1.15
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Certificates
of Public Convenience and Necessity
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4
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1.16
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Closing
or Closing Date
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4
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1.17
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Code
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4
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1.18
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Commercial
Operation
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4
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1.19
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Commercial
Operation Date
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4
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1.20
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Commercially
Reasonable Efforts
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4
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1.21
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Common
Facilities
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4
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1.22
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Common
Facilities Ownership Share
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4
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1.23
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Common
Facilities Upgrades
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5
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1.24
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Common
Facilities Upgrades Completion Date
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5
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1.25
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Construction
Period Cash Flow Memorandum
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5
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1.26
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Cost
of Construction
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5
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1.27
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Cost
of Operation
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5
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1.28
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Covered
Owner
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5
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1.29
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Defaulted
Shares
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5
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1.30
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Emissions
Projection
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5
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1.31
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Empire
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5
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1.32
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EPA
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5
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1.33
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Estimated
In-Service Operation Date
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5
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1.34
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Excess
Allowances
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5
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1.35
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Excess
Share
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6
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1.36
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Existing
Common Facilities
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6
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1.37
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Force
Majeure
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6
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1.38
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Fuel
Commodity
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6
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1.39
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Fuel
Commodity Ownership Percentage
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6
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1.40
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GAAP
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6
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1.41
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Good
Utility Practice
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6
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1.42
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Iatan
Station Site
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6
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1.43
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Iatan
Unit 1 Ownership Agreement
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6
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1.44
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Iatan
Unit 2 Facility
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6
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1.45
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Indemnified
Owner
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7
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1.46
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Initial
Iatan Station Site
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7
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1.47
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Initial
Net Accredited Capacity
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7
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1.48
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In-Service
Operation Date
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7
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1.49
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Insolvency
or Seizure
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7
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1.50
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Interconnection
Facilities
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7
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1.51
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KCPL
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7
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1.52
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KCPL
Acquisition Election
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7
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1.53
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KEPCO
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7
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1.54
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KEPCO
Attributable Ownership Rights
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7
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1.55
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Lapse
Date
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7
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1.56
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Management
Committee
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8
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1.57
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Minimum
Operable Capacity
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8
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1.58
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MJMEUC
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8
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1.59
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Moody’s
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8
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1.60
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Net
Generating Capacity
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8
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1.61
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Net
Generation Output
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8
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1.62
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Nominal
Gross Capacity
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8
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1.63
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Non-Financial
Default
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8
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1.64
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Notice
to Arbitrate
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8
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1.65
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Nower
Property
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8
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1.66
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Other
Owner Acquisition Election
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8
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1.67
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Operable
Unit(s)
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8
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1.68
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Operator
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8
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1.69
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Operating
Period Cash Flow Memorandum
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8
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1.70
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Owners
or Owner
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8
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1.71
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Ownership
Share
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8
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1.72
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Prevailing
Wage Act
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8
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1.73
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Proposed
Transferee
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8
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1.74
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Reciprocal
Conveyance Date
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8
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1.75
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Remaining
Owners
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9
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1.76
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RTO
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9
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1.77
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RUS
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9
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1.78
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S&P
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9
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1.79
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Secured
Party
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9
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1.80
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Site-Based
Emissions
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9
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1.81
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Site
Representative
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9
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1.82
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SPP
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9
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1.83
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Total
Gross Capacity
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9
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1.84
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Transfer
Share
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9
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1.85
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Transferable
Interests
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9
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1.86
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Trigger
Date
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9
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1.87
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Uniform
System of Accounts
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9
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1.88
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Unit
1 Owners
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9
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1.89
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Xxxx
0 Ownership Share
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9
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1.90
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Unit
2
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9
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1.91
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Unit
2 Debt Securities
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9
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1.92
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Unit
2 Owners
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9
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1.93
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Unit
2 Site
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9
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1.94
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Voluntary
Acquisition Election
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10
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ARTICLE
II
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Iatan
Unit 2 Facility; Common Facilities; Creation and Adjustment of
Ownership
Interests Therein; Additional Units; Representations, Warranties
and
Covenants
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10
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2.1
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Ownership
Shares in Iatan 2
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10
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2.2
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Interests
in Real Property and Common Facilities
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11
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2.3
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Adjustment
Upon Transfer
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14
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2.4
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Additional
Units
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14
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2.5
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Common
Facilities Additions and Retirements After the Reciprocal Conveyance
Date
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16
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ARTICLE
III
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Easements
for Interconnection and Transmission Facilities
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17
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3.1
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Interconnection
and Transmission Facilities
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17
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3.2
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Relocations
and Modifications
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17
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3.3
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Personal
Property
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17
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3.4
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Exclusive
Right, Title and Interest
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17
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ARTICLE
IV
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Construction
and Testing
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18
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4.1
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Responsibility
for Construction
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18
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4.2
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Responsibility
for Interconnection Facilities
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18
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4.3
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In-Service
Operation Date
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18
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4.4
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Construction
Power
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18
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4.5
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Site
Representative
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18
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4.6
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Reporting
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19
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4.7
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Prevailing
Wage
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20
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ARTICLE
V
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Management
and Operation of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility
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20
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5.1
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Management
Committee
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20
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5.2
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Management
Committee Action
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21
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5.3
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Operator
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21
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5.4
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Unit
2 Facility Additions and Retirements
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24
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5.5
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Damage,
Destruction or Condemnation
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24
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ARTICLE
VI
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Capacity
and Energy Entitlements; Financial Obligations; Access to Information;
Defaults; Emissions Allowance Credits; Regional Transmission
Organizations
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26
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6.1
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Capacity
Entitlement
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26
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6.2
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Energy
Entitlement
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26
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6.3
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Test
Energy
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26
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6.4
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Financial
Obligations
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27
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6.5
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Access
to Information
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27
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6.6
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Default
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27
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6.7
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Emission
Allowances
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31
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6.8
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Quarterly
Allowance Requirement, Initial Share, and Allowance
Contribution
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31
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6.9
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Annual
Adjustment of Allowance Contribution
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32
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6.10
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Excess
Allowances
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32
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6.11
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Procedures
for Transferring Allowances; Compliance Use Dates
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33
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6.12
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Restrictions
on Allowance Transfers to Cover Excess Emissions
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33
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6.13
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Acquisition
of Allowances by Operator, Reimbursement of Costs
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33
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6.14
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Compliance
Not Measured on Unit Basis
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33
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6.15
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Regional
Transmission Organizations
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34
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6.16
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Transaction
with Other Parties
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34
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ARTICLE
VII
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Fuel
Supply
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35
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7.1
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Procurement
of Fuel
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35
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7.2
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Negotiation
and Renegotiation of Contracts
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35
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7.3
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Ownership
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35
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7.4
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Fuel
Supply Interruption
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35
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7.5
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KCPL
Fuel Transportation
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35
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ARTICLE
VIII
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Financial
Responsibility
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35
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8.1
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Demonstration
of Creditworthiness During Construction
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35
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ARTICLE
IX
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Taxes
and Insurance
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37
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9.1
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Taxes;
Election Out of Partnership Treatment
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37
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9.2
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Insurance
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38
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ARTICLE
X
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Partition;
Encumbrance; Transfer
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39
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10.1
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Partition
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39
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10.2
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Encumbrance
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39
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10.3
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Transfer
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42
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10.4
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Right
of First Refusal
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42
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10.5
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Restrictions
on Transfer of KCPL’s Obligation as Operator
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43
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10.6
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Required
Transfer of Common Facilities and Interest in Real
Property
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43
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10.7
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Environmental
Control Financing
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43
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ARTICLE
XI
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Covenants
and Obligations
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44
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11.1
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Equitable
Servitudes
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44
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11.2
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Independent
Covenants and Obligations
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44
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11.3
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Several
Obligations
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44
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11.4
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Risk
of Loss; Liability
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44
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11.5
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Indemnity
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45
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11.6
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Exculpation
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45
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11.7
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Equal
Opportunity
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45
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11.8
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Buy
American
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46
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ARTICLE
XII
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Arbitration
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46
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12.1
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Controversies
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46
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12.2
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Notice
to Arbitrate
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46
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12.3
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Selection
of Arbitrator and Venue
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46
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12.4
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Scope
of Arbitration
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46
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12.5
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Findings
and Award
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46
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12.6
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Costs
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48
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ARTICLE
XIII
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Force
Majeure
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48
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13.1
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Force
Majeure
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48
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ARTICLE
XIV
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Accounting
and Payment Procedures
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48
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14.1
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Planning
of Cash Flow Requirements
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48
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14.2
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Record-Keeping;
Accounting Manual
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48
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14.3
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Construction
Fund
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49
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ARTICLE
XV
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General
Provisions
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49
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15.1
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Implementing
and Confirmatory Instruments
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49
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15.2
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Waivers
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49
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15.3
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Notices
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49
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15.4
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Severability
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50
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15.5
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Governing
Law
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50
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15.6
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Continued
Effect of Other Agreements
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50
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15.7
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Amendment
to the Agreement
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50
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15.8
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Agreement
Survives Departure of Owner or Owners
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50
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15.9
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Conflicts
between Agreements
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51
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15.10
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Exhibits
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51
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ARTICLE
XVI
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Term;
Termination
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51
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16.1
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Effective
Date and Term
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51
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16.2
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Termination
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52
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16.3
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Disposition
Upon Abandonment
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52
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ARTICLE
XVII
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Confidentiality
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53
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17.1
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Confidential
Information
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53
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17.2
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Limitation
on Disclosure of Documents
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53
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ARTICLE
XVIII
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Private
Use Covenant
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54
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18.1
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Private
Use Covenant
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54
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ARTICLE
XIX
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Representations
and Warranties
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55
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19.1
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KCPL’s
Representations and Warranties
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55
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19.2
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Aquila’s
Representations and Warranties
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56
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19.3
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Empire’s
Representations and Warranties
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57
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19.4
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KEPCO’s
Representations and Warranties
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57
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19.5
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MJMEUC’s
Representations and Warranties
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58
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ARTICLE
XX
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Memorandum
of Agreement
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58
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20.1
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Memorandum
of Agreement
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58
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ARTICLE
XXI
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Cooperation
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58
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21.1
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Cooperation
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58
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EXHIBITS
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A
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Legal
Description of Initial Iatan Station Site
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B
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Legal
Description of Nower
Property
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C
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General
Description of Existing Common Facilities
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D
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General
Description of Common Facilities Upgrades
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E
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Form
of Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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F
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Description
of Xxxx 0
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X
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Xxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxxxxxxx and Approval
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H
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Iatan
Station Unit 2 Site Ground Lease, Nower Property Ground Lease, and
Easement Agreement
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I-1
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Construction
Period Cash Flow Memorandum
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I-2
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Operating
Period Cash
Flow Memorandum
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J
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Accounting
Manual
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viii
This
IATAN UNIT 2 AND COMMON FACILITIES OWNERSHIP AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”)
is
made as of May
__,
2006, by and among KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY, a Missouri corporation
(“KCPL”),
AQUILA, INC., a Delaware corporation (“Aquila”),
THE
EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY, a Kansas corporation (“Empire”),
KANSAS ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC., a not-for-profit generation and
transmission cooperative organized under the laws of the State of Kansas
(“KEPCO”),
and
MISSOURI JOINT MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY COMMISSION, a body public and
corporate of the State of Missouri (“MJMEUC”)
(each
of KCPL, Aquila, Empire, KEPCO and MJMEUC, individually, an “Owner”
and,
collectively, the “Owners”).
RECITALS
The
Owners are engaged in the generation and transmission of electricity and
its
distribution and sale to the Owners’ respective customers, and intend to
construct, own and operate a coal-fired electric generating facility of
approximately 800-850 MW Net Generating Capacity (“Unit 2”)
on the
East bank of the Missouri River, near the Upper Iatan Bend, in Platte County,
Missouri.
KCPL,
Aquila and Empire (the “Unit 1
Owners”)
own as
tenants in common, each with an undivided ownership interest, a coal-fired
electric generating facility (“Unit 1”)
located adjacent to the proposed location of Unit 2 at the Initial Iatan
Station Site (as hereinafter defined). KCPL operates Xxxx 0. The
Unit 1 Owners also presently own as tenants in common, each with an
undivided ownership interest, the Initial Iatan Station Site.
Unit 1
is and Unit 2 will be located on a parcel of real property that can
accommodate up to four coal-fired generation units (the “Initial
Iatan Station Site”).
An
adjacent parcel of real property will also be used in connection with the
operation of Unit 1 and Unit 2 (“Nower
Property”).
KCPL
is the sole owner of the Nower Property. The Initial Iatan Station Site and
the
Nower Property will be referred to collectively as the “Iatan
Station Site.”
Legal
descriptions of the Initial Iatan Station Site and the Nower Property are
attached as Exhibits
A and B, respectively.
The
Unit 1 Owners have set forth their agreement with respect to Xxxx 0,
the Initial Iatan Station Site, and certain common facilities in the Iatan
Station Ownership Agreement dated July 31, 1978 (the “Iatan
Unit 1 Ownership Agreement”).
The
Owners desire to participate in the construction of Unit 2 and ownership of
the Iatan Unit 2 Facility (as hereinafter defined), and have agreed that
the Iatan Unit 2 Facility shall be owned by the Owners as tenants in
common, each with an undivided ownership interest therein as hereinafter
provided.
The
Unit 1 Owners own certain common facilities now in existence and serving
Unit 1 (as more fully described in Exhibit
C,
but
excluding any existing fuel inventory for Unit 1,
the
“Existing
Common Facilities”)
that
are anticipated to be capable of joint utilization by and for Xxxx 0,
Xxxx 0 and any Additional Units (as hereinafter defined).
MJMEUC
and
KEPCO also desire
to
participate in the undivided ownership of the Existing Common Facilities
to the
extent they are utilized by Unit 2.
The
Unit 2 Owners intend to construct and own (in common with the Unit 1
Owners as provided herein) certain enhancements and improvements to the
Existing
Common Facilities in order to facilitate the joint operation of Unit 1 and
Unit 2 (such enhancements and improvements, as more fully described in
Exhibit
D,
the
“Common
Facilities Upgrades”
and,
together with the Existing Common Facilities, the “Common
Facilities”).
At
the
Closing (as defined below), pursuant to assignment and assumption agreements,
the form of which is set out in Exhibit
E,
KCPL
shall transfer and assign to the other Owners certain undivided interests
in
permits
related
to Xxxx 0, and by virtue of the other Owners’ payment of certain costs,
they shall acquire undivided interests in the balance of the Iatan Unit 2
Facility and the Common Facilities and each such other Owner shall assume
and
agree to be bound by the provisions of all permits
and
other obligations under this Agreement to the extent of its Ownership Share
therein as provided in Section 2.1 or Common Facilities Ownership Shares,
as
provided in Section 2.2, as applicable.
This
Agreement is executed for the purposes of (i) confirming the nature and
extent
of the respective ownership interests of the Owners in the Iatan Unit 2
Facility and the Common Facilities and (ii) imposing certain covenants
and
obligations running with the rights, titles and interests of the Owners
in and
to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities, which covenants and
obligations are intended to inure to the benefit of and be binding upon
each of
the Owners and any and all persons whomsoever having or claiming any right,
title or interest therein by, from, through or under any of the
Owners.
NOW,
THEREFORE, the Owners, each for itself, its successors and assigns, and
for the
benefit of the other, its successors and assigns, hereby covenant and agree
as
follows:
ARTICLE
I
Definitions
For
purposes of this Agreement the following capitalized terms shall have the
respective meanings set forth below.
1.1 “Accounting
Manual”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 14.2.
1.2 “Actual
Emissions”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.8(b).
1.3 “Actual
Fuel Costs”
shall
mean the total of the following component costs:
(a) the
amount billed to KCPL by suppliers for coal and other fuel for the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility, including any adjustments thereto;
(b) the
amount billed to KCPL by suppliers for limestone, ammonia, and any other
Fuel
Commodity used in pollution control equipment for the Iatan Unit 2
Facility, which are required and consumed as coal or other fuel is consumed,
including any adjustments thereto;
2
(c) the
amount billed to or otherwise incurred by KCPL for
the transportation of coal or other Fuel Commodities referred to in
Sections
1.3(a) and 1.3(b), which shall include, but is not limited to, tariff
payments
and any other charges of common carriers and all costs of operation,
maintenance, leasing and financing (including interest, fees and principal,
whether incurred directly or through rents under leases) of rail rolling
stock
or other transportation equipment, whether directly owned or leased
(by capital
lease or operating lease) by KCPL or any affiliate thereof and all
reasonable
consulting, rate costs, legal, and other administrative and general
expenses
relating to providing transportation service;
(d) all
charges incurred by KCPL in connection with the
lease, maintenance and operation of all coal handling and storage equipment
and
facilities associated with and allocated to the Iatan Unit 2
Facility;
(e) all
sales, use, personal property or other taxes
imposed on KCPL because of the transportation, delivery, purchase,
transfer,
storage, handling, sale or ownership of coal or other fuel with respect to the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility;
(f) all
other costs, whether similar or dissimilar to the
costs enumerated above, incurred by KCPL in performance of Article
VII of this
Agreement and not provided for in other parts of this Agreement, including
but
not limited to, pre-operating expenses (including fuel during testing)
and
related general and administrative costs for the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and
the Common Facilities.
1.4 “Additional
Unit” or “Additional Units” shall
mean any subsequently developed Xxxx 0 xxx/xx Xxxx 0, as contemplated
in the
certificate of public convenience and necessity for the Initial Iatan
Station
Site, Kansas City Power & Light Co., Case No. 17,895 (Dec. 14, 1973) or any
other generating unit KCPL elects to build on the Iatan Station Site.
1.5 “Adverse
Action” shall mean any action or
inaction that adversely affects the exclusion of interest from gross
income for
U.S. federal income tax purposes of any MJMEUC tax-exempt debt used
to finance
MJMEUC’s Ownership Share and/or Common Facilities Ownership Share.
1.6 “Agreement”
shall
have the meaning specified in
the caption hereof.
1.7 “Agreements”
shall
mean collectively this
Agreement and other agreements and documents entered into by the Owners
pursuant
to this Agreement, including without limitation, the proposed Assignment
and
Assumption Agreement, and the Iatan Station Unit 2 Site Ground Lease, Nower
Property Ground Lease and Easement Agreement, as this Agreement and
such other
agreements and documents may be amended from time to time.
1.8 “Allowance
Contribution” shall have the meaning
specified in Section 6.7(a).
1.9 “Allowances”
or
“Emission
Allowances”
shall mean all present and future authorizations to emit specified
units of
pollutants, which units are established by governmental agencies with
jurisdiction over the Iatan Station Site under (i) an air pollution
control and
emission reduction program designed to mitigate interstate or intrastate
transport or deposition of pollutants or (ii) any other air pollution
reduction
program with a similar purpose, in each case, regardless of whether
the
government agency establishes such authorizations or
designates such authorizations by a name other than “allowances.”
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1.10 “Appraised
Value”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(c).
1.11 “Aquila”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.12 “Arrangements”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 9.1(a).
1.13 “Bankruptcy
Code”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 5.3(b).
1.14 “Cash
Flow Memorandum”
shall
mean,
with respect to any construction (or reconstruction following a casualty loss)
of Unit 2 or the Common Facilities, the Construction Period Cash Flow
Memorandum, and otherwise, the Operating Period Cash Flow
Memorandum.
1.15 “Certificates
of Public Convenience and Necessity”
shall
mean the certificates issued in Kansas City Power & Light Co., Case No.
17,895 (December 14, 1973) and Kansas City Power & Light Co., St. Xxxxxx
Light & Power Co. and The Empire District Co., Case No. EM-78-277 (July 28,
1978).
1.16 “Closing”
or “Closing Date”
shall
mean the time (i) at which KCPL transfers to each appropriate Owner (other
than KEPCO, which shall be governed by Section 16.1(b)) pursuant
to this Agreement and/or ancillary agreements an interest in permits,
personal
property
and the
real property acquired by KCPL for Xxxx 0 and/or the Common Facilities
Upgrades through such time and (ii) each Owner (including
KEPCO) pays
to
KCPL the portion of the Cost of Construction accrued through such time for
the
purchase of the Ownership Share or Common Facilities Ownership Share (as
applicable) of that Owner as provided in this Agreement, in accordance with
its
terms, and (iii) each Owner (including
KEPCO) assumes
its respective liabilities therefor, as such time shall be stated in a notice
of
the Closing Date provided by KCPL to the other Owners at least 10 days before
the Closing Date.
1.17 “Code”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 9.1(a).
1.18 “Commercial
Operation”
shall
mean Unit 2 shall have met all of the performance tests prescribed in
KCPL’s test procedures for placing Unit 2 into commercial
operation.
1.19 “Commercial
Operation Date”
shall
mean the date on which Unit 2 achieves Commercial Operation.
1.20 “Commercially
Reasonable Efforts”
shall
mean such diligent efforts, consistent with Good Utility Practice, that a party
taking such actions would use in acting on its own behalf.
1.21 “Common
Facilities”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.22 “Common
Facilities Ownership Share”
shall
have the meaning given in Section 2.2(g).
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1.23 “Common
Facilities Upgrades”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.24 “Common
Facilities Upgrades Completion Date”
means
the date construction and installation of the Common Facilities Upgrades is
completed, as specified by the Operator in a notice to the Owners.
1.25 “Construction
Period Cash Flow Memorandum”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 14.1.
1.26 “Cost
of Construction”
shall
mean all costs (excluding allowance for funds used during construction) incurred
by KCPL in connection with the planning, design, licensing, permitting,
acquisition, construction, completion, renewal, reconstruction, addition,
upgrade, replacement or disposal of Unit 2, Common Facilities Upgrades,
Interconnection Facilities (including those costs described in Section 4.2),
or
any portions of Unit 2 that are properly recordable to Unit 2 in
accordance with the Electric
Plant Instructions
and in
appropriate accounts as set forth in the Uniform System of Accounts. Costs
of
project development (other than costs associated with the acquisition and
development of real property) incurred prior to May 1, 2004 shall not be
included in Cost of Construction. Credits, reimbursements, refunds or rebates,
including casualty insurance proceeds, with respect to amounts previously
included in Cost of Construction, shall be applied as received to set off
amounts otherwise due from the Owners at such time.
1.27 “Cost
of Operation”
shall
mean all costs (excluding Actual Fuel Costs and financing costs) incurred by
KCPL, in connection with the operation and maintenance of Xxxx 0, and
Common Facilities that are properly recordable to Unit 2 in accordance with
the Operating
Expense Instructions
and in
appropriate accounts as set forth in the Uniform System of Accounts, and all
such costs associated with pollution control facilities necessary for the
operation of Unit 2. Credits, reimbursements, refunds or rebates, including
casualty insurance proceeds, with respect to amounts previously included in
Cost
of Operation, shall be applied as received to set off amounts otherwise due
from
the Owners at such time.
1.28 “Covered
Owner”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 17.2.
1.29 “Defaulted
Shares”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.6(d).
1.30 “Emissions
Projection”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.8(b).
1.31 “Empire”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.32 “EPA”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.8(a).
1.33 “Estimated
In-Service Operation Date”
shall
mean, as of the date of this Agreement, June 1, 2010, which may be modified
from
time to time by KCPL, provided KCPL provides written notice of any modification
to Owners.
1.34 “Excess
Allowances”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.8(d).
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1.35 “Excess
Share” shall have the meaning specified in Section 2.1(c).
1.36 “Existing
Common Facilities”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.37 “Force
Majeure”
shall
mean causes not within the control of the party directly affected and claiming
suspension of its obligations and which by the exercise of due diligence
and
foresight could not reasonably have been avoided, and shall be deemed to
include, but not be limited to, acts of God, acts of civil or military
authorities, acts of war or public enemy, acts of any court, regulatory
agency
or administrative body having jurisdiction, insurrections, riots, strikes
or
other labor disturbances, breakdown of or accidents to plant, equipment
or
facilities, fires, explosions, floods, drought, interruption of transportation,
embargoes or other causes of a similar nature; provided, however, that
any
strike or other labor disturbance may be settled at the sole discretion
of the
party directly affected thereby; and provided, further, that the inability
to
pay money shall not constitute Force Majeure.
1.38 “Fuel
Commodity”
or
“Fuel
Commodities” shall mean
coal,
oil,
agricultural, mining or chemical products that are used in the process
of
producing
steam
or
controlling emissions.
1.39 “Fuel
Commodity Ownership Percentage”
shall
mean each Owner’s percentage interest in and share of the Iatan Station Fuel
Commodity inventory, as defined in Section V.B.2 of the Accounting Manual,
attached as Exhibit J, as may be amended from time to time.
1.40 “GAAP”
shall
mean generally accepted accounting principles as determined by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board.
1.41 “Good
Utility Practice”
shall
mean, at any time, the standards, practices, methods and acts with respect
to
construction and operation of electrical generating facilities engaged
in or
approved by a significant portion of the electric utility industry at such
time.
Good Utility Practice is not intended to be limited to the optimum practice,
method, or act to the exclusion of all others, but rather to be a spectrum
of
possible standards, practices, methods, or acts expected to accomplish
the
desired results, having due regard for, among other things, economic factors,
manufacturers’ warranties and the requirements of governmental authorities of
competent jurisdiction and the requirements of this Agreement. Notwithstanding
any provision of this Agreement, failure to meet the Good Utility Practice
standard shall not constitute a breach of this Agreement unless such failure
constitutes gross negligence or willful misconduct.
1.42 “Iatan
Station Site”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.43 “Iatan
Unit 1 Ownership Agreement”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.44 “Iatan
Unit 2 Facility”
shall
mean the tangible and intangible personal property related to Xxxx 0,
including the following:
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(a) equipment
comprising Unit 2, including the boiler island, turbine-generator, fuel
handling equipment, water treatment equipment, pollution control equipment,
the
buildings housing any such equipment, shops, warehouses, and the associated
auxiliary equipment, all as more particularly described in Exhibit
F;
(b) the
permits, authorizations and approvals listed in Exhibit
G
and all
extensions, renewals and modifications thereof;
(c) inventories
of materials and supplies (exclusive of fuels) for use exclusively in
connection
with Unit 2, including spare parts, tools and equipment; and
(d) such
additions, betterments, improvements, facilities and other tangible property
as
may be acquired, constructed or installed, for use in connection with
Unit 2 and appurtenances becoming part of Unit 2 hereunder; provided
that the same shall have been acquired, constructed or installed for
joint or
common use among the Owners as a portion of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and
owned by the Owners as tenants in common under the provisions of this
Agreement.
1.45 “Indemnified
Owner”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 11.5.
1.46 “Initial
Iatan Station Site”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.47 “Initial
Net Accredited
Capacity”
shall
mean the electrical rating achieved by a unit at the time it was placed
into
service, minus the generation capacity required to operate its related
auxiliary
equipment and transformers, all as measured in accordance with SPP’s
then-applicable criteria for uniform rating of generation
equipment.
1.48 “In-Service
Operation Date”
shall
mean the date, as specified in a notice by KCPL to the other Owners,
at which
Unit 2 satisfies the in-service criteria established in In the Matter of a
Proposed Experimental Regulatory Plan of Kansas City Power & Light Company,
Case No. EO-2005-0329.
1.49 “Insolvency
or Seizure”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 5.3(b).
1.50 “Interconnection
Facilities”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 4.2.
1.51 “KCPL”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.52 “KCPL
Acquisition Election”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(c).
1.53 “KEPCO”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.54 “KEPCOAttributable
Ownership Rights”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 16.1(b).
1.55 “Lapse
Date” shall have the meaning specified in Section
10.2(c).
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1.56 “Management
Committee” shall have the meaning specified in Section 5.1.
1.57 “Minimum
Operable Capacity”
shall
mean the minimum Net Generation Output that Unit 2 must generate in order
to operate in a reliable and economic manner.
1.58 “MJMEUC”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.59 “Moody’s”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 8.1(a).
1.60 “Net
Generating Capacity”
shall
mean the Total Gross Capacity of a unit minus the generation capacity
that must
be used to operate the auxiliary equipment and transformers associated
with the
unit and any associated common facilities.
1.61 “Net
Generation Output”
shall
mean at any time the actual generation output of Unit 1 or Unit 2, as
the case may be, minus the energy that must be used to operate
the Common
Facilities, auxiliary equipment and transformers associated with
such
units.
1.62 “Nominal
Gross Capacity”
shall
mean the Total Gross Capacity measured at the generation terminals.
1.63 “Non-Financial
Default”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.6(a).
1.64 “Notice
to Arbitrate”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 12.2.
1.65 “Nower
Property”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.66 “Other
Owner Acquisition Election”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(c).
1.67 “Operable
Unit(s)”
shall
have the meaning given in Section 5.5(b).
1.68 “Operator”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 5.3(a).
1.69 “Operating
Period Cash Flow Memorandum”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 14.1.
1.70 “Owners”
or
“Owner”
shall
have the meaning specified in the caption of this Agreement.
1.71 “Ownership
Share”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 2.1(a).
1.72 “Prevailing
Wage Act” shall have the meaning specified in Section 4.7.
1.73 “Proposed
Transferee”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.4(a).
1.74 “Reciprocal
Conveyance Date”
means
a
date following the Common Facilities Upgrade Completion Date but
prior to the
Commercial Operation Date, as specified by the
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operator
in a notice to the Owners, upon which MJMEUC and KEPCO will acquire
shares of
the Existing Common Facilities.
1.75 “Remaining
Owners”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.4(a).
1.76 “RTO”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.15.
1.77 “RUS”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(b).
1.78 “S&P”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 8.1(a).
1.79 “Secured
Party”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(b).
1.80 “Site-Based
Emissions”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.14.
1.81 “Site
Representative”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 4.5.
1.82 “SPP”
shall
mean the Southwest Power Pool, Inc.
or any
successor.
1.83 “Total
Gross Capacity”
shall
mean the maximum sustained amount of electric power that a
unit
is
capable of generating in stable operation, as determined from
time
to time
in
accordance with SPP’s then applicable criteria
for
uniform rating of generation equipment.
1.84 “Transfer
Share”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.4(a).
1.85 “Transferable
Interests”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(c).
1.86 “Trigger
Date”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 10.2(c).
1.87 “Uniform
System of Accounts”
shall
mean the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Uniform System
of Accounts
prescribed for Public Utilities (Class A and Class B), as amended
from time to
time.
1.88 “Unit 1
Owners”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.89 “Unit 1
Ownership Share” means “Ownership Share” or “Ownership Shares”
as
defined in Section 1.5 of the Iatan Unit 1 Ownership
Agreement.
1.90 “Unit 2”
shall
have the meaning specified in the Recitals to this Agreement.
1.91 “Unit 2
Debt Securities”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 17.2.
1.92 “Unit 2
Owners”
shall
mean KCPL, Aquila, Empire, KEPCO and MJMEUC.
1.93 “Unit 2
Site”
shall
mean that portion of the Initial Iatan Station Site on which
Unit 2 and its
related facilities will be located.
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1.94 “ Voluntary
Acquisition
Election”
shall
have the meaning specified in Section 6.6(d).
ARTICLE
II
Iatan
Unit 2 Facility; Common Facilities; Creation and Adjustment of Ownership
Interests
Therein;
Additional Units; Representations, Warranties and
Covenants
2.1 Ownership
Shares in Iatan Unit 2
Facility.
(a) The
Owners shall, pursuant to this Agreement, the Assignment and
Assumption
Agreement and, where appropriate, other instruments, take and
receive title to
and thereafter own the Iatan Unit 2 Facility as tenants in common, each
with undivided ownership interests therein, expressed as percentages,
as
follows:
Iatan
Unit 2 Facility Ownership Shares
(with
corresponding anticipated capacity entitlement based
on 850 MW Net
Generating Capacity)
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KCPL
|
Aquila
|
Empire
|
MJMEUC
|
KEPCO
|
54.71%
(465
MW)
|
18.00%
(153
MW)
|
12.00%
(102
MW)
|
11.76%
(100
MW)
|
3.53%
(30
MW)
|
For
each
Owner, the percentage set forth above for such Owner is herein
called such
Owner’s “Ownership
Share.”
(b) If
the
projected Net Generating Capacity of Unit 2, as reasonably
determined
by KCPL after the award of the contracts for the boiler island
and turbine, is
greater than or less than 850 MW, the Ownership Share of certain
Owners shall be
revised as follows: (i) MJMEUC’s Ownership Share shall be revised such that its
Ownership Share equals the percentage necessary for MJMEUC
to be entitled,
pursuant to Sections 6.1 and 6.2 (assuming Net Generation Output
is equal to the
then current projected Net Generating Capacity
of
Unit 2),
to 100
MW of capacity and associated energy from Unit 2; (ii) KEPCO’s Ownership
Share shall be revised such that its Ownership Share equals
the percentage
necessary for KEPCO to be entitled, pursuant to Sections 6.1
and 6.2 (assuming
Net Generation Output is equal to the then current projected
Net Generating
Capacity
of
Unit 2),
to 30
MW of capacity and associated energy from Unit 2; (iii) Aquila and Empire
shall have the right to retain their respective eighteen percent
(18%) and
twelve percent (12%) Ownership Shares, as set forth in Section
2.1(a),
irrespective of the Net Generating Capacity of Unit 2; and (iv) KCPL’s
Ownership Share shall be revised such that it owns the remaining
Ownership
Shares following the allocations of Ownership Shares to the
other Owners as set
forth herein. In the case of an adjustment of Ownership Shares
pursuant to this
Section 2.1(b), the parties shall make such balancing payments
among one another
such that the Cost of Construction paid by each Owner (after
the netting of such
balancing payments) shall equal such Owner’s Ownership Share of the total Cost
of Construction incurred through the date of such balancing
payments.
(c) If,
prior
to the first notice from the Operator pursuant to Section 6.4,
an Owner
determines that it desires to reduce its Ownership Share, the
amount (expressed
as a
10
percentage)
by which such Ownership Share is to be reduced (the “Excess
Share”)
shall
be allocated among the other Owners as follows: (i) first,
between Aquila and
Empire, in proportion to their Ownership Shares at the time
of allocation, until
their collective Ownership Shares equal thirty percent (30%);
(ii) then, if any
portion of such Excess Share remains unallocated, to KCPL,
until its Ownership
Share equals the percentage necessary for KCPL to be entitled,
pursuant to
Sections 6.1 and 6.2 (assuming Net Generation Output is equal
to the then
current projected Net Generating Capacity
of
Unit 2),
to 500
MW of capacity and associated energy from Unit 2; and (iii) then, if any
portion of such Excess Share remains unallocated, to KEPCO,
until its Ownership
Share equals the percentage necessary for KEPCO to be entitled,
pursuant to
Sections 6.1 and 6.2 (assuming Net Generation Output is equal
to the then
current projected Net Generating Capacity
of
Unit 2),
to 50
MW of capacity and associated energy from Unit 2; and (iv) then, if any
portion of such Excess Share remains unallocated, to MJMEUC,
until its Ownership
Share equals the percentage necessary for MJMEUC to be entitled,
pursuant to
Sections 6.1 and 6.2 (assuming Net Generation Output is equal
to the then
current projected Net Generating Capacity of Unit 2), to
100 MW of capacity and
associated energy from Unit 2; and (v) if, after giving effect to this
allocation process, any Excess Share remains unallocated,
such Excess Share
shall be allocated to KCPL. Each Owner, including KCPL, shall
have the right to
accept or reject all or a portion of its allocation of any
Excess Share in its
sole discretion. If any Excess Share remains unallocated
following the process
set forth in this Section 2.1(c), the Owner seeking to reduce
its Ownership
Share shall retain the unaccepted portion of the Excess Share
and remain
obligated under the terms of this Agreement for the obligations
associated with
such Ownership Share.
(d) Each
Owner’s Ownership Share shall be subject to adjustment from time
to time as
provided for in Sections 2.1, 2.3, and 6.6. The rights, titles
and interests of
the Owners in and to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and any and all portions
thereof, as the same may exist from time to time, shall be
as provided for under
this Agreement, and the covenants and obligations herein
shall inure to the
benefit of, and shall be binding upon their respective successors
and
assigns.
2.2 Interests
in Real Property and Common Facilities.
(a) On
the
Closing Date, the Unit 1 Owners shall execute and deliver a ground lease in
recordable form¸ the form of which is set out in Exhibit H, that grants to
MJMEUC and to KEPCO certain property rights with respect
to the real property on
which Xxxx 0 and the Common Facilities are or will be located, subject
to
the provisions of this Agreement, and subject to any necessary
regulatory or
lender approval or release of any applicable mortgage indenture.
KCPL will use
Commercially Reasonable Efforts to obtain any necessary regulatory
or lender
approval or release of any applicable mortgage indenture.
If KCPL fails to
obtain said approvals or releases within twelve (12) months
of the execution
date of this Agreement, KCPL shall reimburse any affected
Owner for all payments
made by said Owner prior to such date with respect to amounts
described in the
Agreements. Such ground lease, or at the Unit 1 Owners’ discretion, a
memorandum of lease with respect thereto, shall be recorded
in the offices of
the Recorder of Deeds for Platte County, Missouri. Such ground
lease shall be
subject to the restrictions and limitations expressed in
this Agreement as to
use or enjoyment of such easements or rights of way.
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(b) On
the
Closing Date, KCPL shall execute and deliver (or
include in the ground lease described in Section 2.2(a))
a
ground
lease in recordable form that grants to the other Owners
certain property rights
with respect to the Nower Property, subject to the provisions
of this Agreement,
and subject to any regulatory and lender approval and release
of any applicable
mortgage indenture. Such ground lease, or at KCPL’s discretion, a memorandum of
lease with respect thereto, shall be recorded
in the
offices of the Recorder of Deeds for Platte County, Missouri.
Such ground lease
shall be subject to the restrictions and limitations expressed
in this Agreement
as to use or enjoyment of such easements or rights of way.
(c) On
the
Closing
Date,
each of the Owners shall execute and deliver, if required,
one or more easements
and rights of way in recordable form granting all other Owners
the right to
construct, install, operate, maintain, repair and replace,
at their own cost and
expense, at, on, along, over, under and across the Iatan
Station Site such
interconnection and transmission facilities as are described
in Section 3.1 of
this Agreement, subject, however, to any necessary regulatory
or lender
approval, release of any applicable mortgage indenture, and
the restrictions and
limitations expressed in this Agreement as to use or enjoyment
of such easements
or rights of way.
(d) Instruments
affecting the Iatan Station Site as provided in paragraphs
(a) and (b) above
and, if required, the easements and rights of way referred
to in Article III,
shall be filed of record and recorded in the offices of the
Recorder of Deeds
for Platte County, Missouri, in the order of precedence herein
stated.
(e) From
time
to time, to the extent required in the judgment of the Operator
to permit the
efficient and economical construction, siting, operation,
or removal of
Unit 2 or the Common Facilities, the Owners shall convey, if required,
such
other easements and other rights in the Iatan Station Site
and/or the Common
Facilities as the Operator may request, subject to, as necessary,
regulatory and
lender approval and release of any applicable mortgage indenture.
(f) On
the
Reciprocal Conveyance Date:
(i) to
the
extent necessary to accomplish the ownership interests
provided in Section
2.2(g) of this Agreement, the Unit 1 Owners shall execute and deliver one
or more bills of sale or other instruments conveying title
to the Existing
Common Facilities in the appropriate undivided interest
percentages at book
value to the Owners and their successors and assigns, as
tenants in common,
subject to the provisions of this Agreement and subject
to any necessary
regulatory and lender approval and release of any applicable
mortgage indenture
(provided, however, that any Owner whose ownership interest
in the Existing
Common Facilities is the same percentage as the Owner’s Common Facilities
Ownership Share shall not be required to transfer title
to Existing Common
Facilities under this Section of the Agreement); and
(ii) the
Unit 2 Owners shall, if necessary, execute and deliver one or
more bills of
sale or other instruments conveying title to the Common
Facilities in the
appropriate undivided interest percentages (as determined
pursuant to Section
2.2(g)) at actual cost to the Owners and their respective
successors and
assigns, as tenants in common, subject to the provisions
of this Agreement and
subject to any necessary regulatory and lender approval
and release of any
applicable mortgage indenture.
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(g) The
Owners shall, by paying their allocable shares of Common
Facilities Upgrade
costs and pursuant to the various conveying documents
with respect to the
Existing Common Facilities pursuant to Section 2.2(f),
take and receive title to
and thereafter own the Common Facilities as tenants
in common, each with an
undivided interest therein as determined for each Owner
in accordance with the
following formula and expressed as a percentage:
Each
Owner’s Common Facilities Ownership Share equals the total
number of net
megawatts that each Owner is entitled to receive from
all of the coal-fired
generating units located at the Initial Iatan Station
Site divided by the
combined Net
Generating Capacity
of the
coal-fired units located at the Initial Iatan Station
Site.
Based
on the current expectations, the initial Common Facilities
Ownership Shares are
projected to be as follows:
Class
of Property
|
Interests
in Common Facilities
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KCPL
|
Aquila
|
Empire
|
MJMEUC
|
KEPCO
|
|
Common
Facilities
(based
upon each Owner’s respective capacity from all units operating
at the
Initial Iatan Station Site)
|
61.45%
|
18.00%
|
12.00%
|
6.58%
|
1.97%
|
For
each
Owner, the percentage resulting from the formula set forth
above for such Owner
in respect of Common Facilities is herein called such
Owner’s “Common
Facilities Ownership Share.”
Subject to any necessary regulatory or lender approval
and release of any
applicable mortgage indenture, the Owners’ Common Facilities Ownership Shares
shall be recalculated, in accordance with the formula
set forth above, only in
the following circumstances, unless otherwise agreed
by all affected
Owners:
(i) Upon
the
Reciprocal Conveyance Date, if the Net Generating Capacity
of Unit 2 as then
projected is at least five percent (5%) higher or lower
than the projected Net
Generating Capacity of Unit 2 used to determine KEPCO’s and MJMEUC’s Ownership
Shares pursuant to Section 2.1(b), or if the Net Generating
Capacity of Unit 1
has changed by at least five percent (5%) since such
determination of KEPCO’s
and MJMEUC’s Ownership Shares; provided, however, that such allocation
shall
only occur if a change in Net Generating Capacity results
in a material net
increase in the usage of the Common Facilities and corresponding
net increase in
the cost of operating and maintaining the Common Facilities.
The revised Common
Facilities Ownership Shares shall be used as the basis
for the acquisition by
KEPCO and MJMEUC of their shares of Existing Common Facilities,
and any
overpayment or underpayment by KEPCO and MJMEUC of costs
of Common Facilities
Upgrades resulting from the adjustment of their Common
Facilities Ownership
Shares shall be adjusted against their purchase price
for the Existing Common
Facilities.
(ii) Subsequent
to the Reciprocal Conveyance Date, upon any cumulative
change in rated Net
Generating Capacity, since the last calculation of Common
Facilities Ownership
Shares, of at least five percent (5%) (higher or lower)
of any unit on the
Initial Iatan Station Site that utilizes the Common Facilities;
provided,
however, that such allocation shall only occur if a change
in Net Generating
Capacity results in a material net
increase in the usage of the Common Facilities and corresponding
net increase in
the
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cost
of
operating and maintaining the Common Facilities. Revised
Common Facilities
Ownership Shares resulting from adjustments under this
subsection (ii) shall
apply prospectively only (i.e.,
affecting responsibility for ongoing costs of operations
and maintenance,
capital additions, repairs, and the like, and for other
liabilities relating to
the Common Facilities), unless the affected parties
agree otherwise.
(iii) Upon
the
placement into service of any Additional Unit on the
Initial Iatan Station Site
that utilizes the Common Facilities and in connection
with changes in Common
Facilities Ownership Shares under this subsection (iii),
KCPL and any party
owning an interest in an Additional Unit shall be required
to purchase the
difference between any other Owner’s formerly determined Common Facilities
Ownership Share and its newly determined Common Facilities
Ownership Share,
pursuant to Section 2.4(b), except to the extent that
such purchase is effected
by one or more other owners of the Additional Unit(s).
(iv) Upon
the
retirement or abandonment of any coal-fired unit located
on the Initial Iatan
Station Site that utilizes the Common Facilities, the
owners that have an
ownership interest in the remaining coal-fired units
shall purchase the Common
Facilities, only to the extent they are necessary to
operate the remaining
coal-fired units, from the owner(s) whose Common Facilities
Ownership Shares
have decreased as a result of the retirement or abandonment.
The purchase and
sale between the owners shall take place at the depreciated
original cost, plus
any allowance for funds used during construction, or
in the case of KEPCO or
MJMEUC, capitalized interest or other similar cost
component.
(v) As
provided in Section 6.6(c) or (d), in connection with
defaults under this
Agreement, with transfers and/or adjustments to the
Common Facilities Ownership
Shares of all affected Owners being accomplished pursuant
to those
provisions.
(h) The
rights, title and interests of the Owners in and to
the Common Facilities and
any and all portions thereof, as the same may exist
from time to time, shall be
as provided for under this Agreement, and the covenants
and obligations herein
shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding
upon their respective
successors and assigns.
2.3 Adjustment
Upon Transfer.
Each Owner shall have the right to and may cause an
adjustment of
its
Ownership Share and Common
Facilities
Ownership Share by transfer under Section 10.3 or 10.4,
subject, however, to the
receipt of (i) an amendment or supplement hereto reflecting
such adjustment and
(ii) appropriate releases of any encumbrance thereon
and compliance with the
provisions of any security agreement related thereto,
as contemplated in Section
10.2.
2.4 Additional
Units.
(a) KCPL
may,
at its sole discretion, cause or permit (i) the construction
and operation of an
Additional Unit or Additional Units and all facilities
related thereto on the
Initial Iatan Station Site, and (ii) the relocation
or modification of any of
the facilities and property then included in Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and any
solely-owned facilities then located on the Initial
Iatan Station
Site for construction and operation of any such Additional
Unit and its related
facilities;
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provided
(A) that such construction and operation will not
unreasonably interfere with or
materially impair the use of the facilities and property
then included in the
Initial Iatan Station Site or otherwise located on
the Initial Iatan Station
Site, or materially impair the generation output
of Unit 2 or materially
increase the costs of owning and/or operating Unit 2, (B) that, to the
extent appropriate, proportional adjustments of the
Common Facilities Ownership
Shares shall be made, by the Unit 2
Owners
pursuant to the formula in Section 2.2(g), to reflect
the changed undivided
ownership interests of the Owners in the Common Facilities
and the Initial Iatan
Station Site as capital transactions, subject to
compliance with the applicable
provisions of any related security agreement contemplated
in Section 10.2
hereof, (C) that the use of the Common Facilities
by any Additional Units shall
not materially impair the generation output of Unit 2 or materially
increase the costs of owning and/or operating Unit 2 or the Common
Facilities, and (D) that all other costs thereof,
including any such relocation
or modification costs, are borne by the owners of
such Additional Unit(s).
Notwithstanding
the provisions of Sections 15.6 and 15.9 of this
Agreement, this Section 2.4(a)
shall not be deemed to amend Section 1.8 of the Iatan
Unit 1 Ownership
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to any necessary regulatory or lender approval or
release of any applicable
mortgage indenture, the proportional adjustments
to be made in such undivided
ownership interests in the Common Facilities prior
to the construction of any
Additional Unit shall be reflected by purchases and
sales (at the depreciated
original cost thereof to the selling Owner, including
any allowance for funds
used during construction or in the case of KEPCO
or MJMEUC, capitalized interest
or other similar cost component) of such portions
thereof as will result in the
revised Common Facilities Ownership Shares of all
Owners and
the
owners of such Additional Unit
in the
Common Facilities as determined in
a
manner consistent with
the
formula set forth in Section 2.2(g)
taking
into account the owners of such Additional Unit.
(c) Subject
to any necessary regulatory or lender approval or
release of any applicable
mortgage indenture, and if appropriate, the proportional
adjustments to be made
in such undivided ownership interests in the Initial
Iatan Station Site, prior
to the construction of any Additional Unit, shall
be reflected by purchases and
sales (at the depreciated original cost thereof to
the selling Owner, including
any allowance for funds used during construction
properly recorded on the books
of such seller) of such portions thereof as will
adjust the Ownership Shares of
the affected Owners, including the owners of such
Additional Unit, in proportion
to their ownership interests in the Total Gross Capacity,
as related to the
Initial Net Accredited Capacity, of all units including
the Nominal Gross
Capacity of the Additional Unit to be constructed
at the Initial Iatan Station
Site in proportion to (x) their resultant ownership
interests in those Common
Facilities applicable to all four units contemplated
at the Initial Iatan
Station Site, times (y) the number of units constructed
at the Initial Iatan
Station Site including the Additional Unit then to
be constructed, divided by
(z) four; provided that KCPL’s ownership interest in the Initial Iatan Station
Site shall also include those portions of the Initial
Iatan Station Site
allocable to the remaining four units (i.e.,
exclusive of the existing and the Additional Unit
then to be constructed) at the
Initial Iatan Station Site.
(d) It
is
intended that the Common Facilities for Unit 2 will not include any
facilities that are exclusively for any Additional
Units. Facilities that have
no relation to a particular unit will not be allocated
to the owners of such
unit.
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(e) Notwithstanding
anything in this Section 2.4, neither MJMEUC
nor KEPCO shall be required to
obtain an ownership interest in the Initial Iatan
Station Site.
2.5 Common
Facilities Additions and Retirements
After
the Reciprocal Conveyance Date.
(a) The
Management Committee shall cause to be made such
property additions to (whether
in the nature of an operating, maintenance, or
capital expense) and retirements
from the facilities and property constituting
the Common Facilities in the
ordinary course of operation and ownership of
the Common Facilities as may, from
time to time, be deemed by the Management Committee
to be necessary or
desirable. Such additions and retirements shall
be set forth in the annual
operating and capital budget to the extent practicable.
(b) Each
Owner shall pay for the cost of any such property
addition thereto or the
expenses relating to the retirement therefrom
in the same percentage as its
Common Facilities Ownership Share, in accordance
with Article XIV. The rights,
titles and interests of any Owner in and to any
such property addition shall be
proportionate to its Common Facilities Ownership
Share.
(c) Upon
removal or retirement of any facilities or property
included in any portion of
the Common Facilities and subject to compliance
with the applicable provisions
of any related security agreement contemplated
herein, the Management Committee
may either (i) divide or partition such removed
or retired facilities or
property, or (ii) sell or otherwise dispose of
such removed or retired
facilities or property and distribute the net
proceeds thereof to or for the
account of the Owners in proportion to their
respective Common Facilities
Ownership Shares.
(d) If
after
the Commercial Operation Date, the Operator shall
determine that, in order to
fully utilize the then current Net Generating
Capacity of Xxxx 0 xxx/xx
Xxxx 0 in compliance with any law, treaty, rule or
regulation of the United
States, the States of Missouri or Kansas or any
instrumentality, agency or
political subdivision of any thereof or any order
or other determination of, or
stipulation under the jurisdiction of, any court
or administrative body of any
thereof, or any determination of an arbitrator,
it is necessary or advisable to
construct an addition, upgrade, refurbishment
or other change to the Common
Facilities (any of the foregoing, an “Upgrade”)
not
authorized pursuant to Section 2.5(a), then the
Operator shall so notify each
member of the Management Committee in writing,
shall develop a budget and plan
for effecting such Upgrade and shall consult
with the Management Committee with
respect thereto. After such consultation, the
Operator may proceed to construct
(or contract for the construction of) such Upgrade.
It shall be the obligation
of the Owners to pay for the costs of such Upgrade
in proportion to their Common
Facilities Ownership Shares within ten (10) days
of presentation of an invoice
for such costs from time to time, and, upon completion
thereof, the Owners’
rights, titles and interests therein shall be
as provided under this
Agreement.
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ARTICLE
III
Easements
for Interconnection and Transmission Facilities
3.1 Interconnection
and Transmission Facilities.
Subject to the approval of the
Management Committee,
which
shall not be unreasonably withheld, each Owner
shall have the right to
construct, install, own, operate, maintain,
repair and replace, at its own cost
and expense, at, on, along, over, under and
across the Initial Iatan Station
Site, such interconnection and transmission
facilities as are reasonably
required (i) to enable it to deliver to its
own system the electric power and
energy that it is entitled to receive from
Unit 2, (ii) to establish
interconnections between its system and the
systems of others, and/or (iii) to
connect separated portions of its own system
facilities, provided that such
solely-owned interconnection and transmission
facilities shall be so installed,
operated and maintained as not unreasonably
to interfere with or materially
impair the use of Xxxx 0, Xxxx 0, any Additional Unit, the Common
Facilities, other generation facilities or
any then existing facilities located
on the Iatan Station Site or the ultimate full
utilization of any thereof. To
the extent any Owner exercises any rights under
this Section, such Owner shall
indemnify the remaining Owners for any liability
resulting from the
construction, installation, operation or retirement
of interconnection and
transmission facilities. Any facilities built
pursuant to this Section shall be
removed from the Iatan Station Site upon the
retirement or abandonment of
Unit 2 subject to any required RTO approval.
3.2 Relocations
and Modifications.
In the event an Owner proposes to install and
operate any such solely-owned
interconnection and transmission facilities
hereunder that would require the
relocation or modification of any then existing
facilities located on the
Initial Iatan Station Site but would otherwise
meet the requirements of this
Article, such Owner shall have the right to
cause such relocation or
modification, provided (A) it will not materially
impair the generation output
of Unit 2 or materially increase the cost of owning
and/or operating
Unit 2 or materially impair or increase the costs
of the use of any
existing interconnection and transmission facilities,
and (B) all costs
associated with the relocation or modification
are borne by such
Owner.
3.3 Personal
Property.
All interconnection and transmission facilities
installed by an Owner at its own
cost pursuant to the provisions of this Article
III shall be and remain the sole
property of the Owner installing them; shall
not be a portion of Xxxx 0,
Xxxx 0, the Common Facilities, Additional Units
or other generation
facilities; shall, where practicable, be identified
by distinctive marking as
the property of such Owner; and shall be deemed
and considered to be personal
property in which such Owner has reserved the
right to remove the same at any
time.
3.4 Exclusive
Right, Title and Interest.
No provision hereof shall give to any other
Owner or anyone claiming by, from,
through or under such other Owner any right,
title or interest in any such
solely-owned interconnection and transmission
facilities permitted by Section
3.1.
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ARTICLE
IV
Construction
and Testing
4.1 Responsibility
for Construction.
Except as otherwise provided for herein, KCPL shall have sole responsibility,
to
be discharged in accordance with Good Utility Practice, for the planning,
licensing, permitting, design, construction and testing of Unit 2 and the
Common Facilities Upgrades. KCPL will use Commercially Reasonable Efforts to
comply with all applicable requirements of all applicable statutes and the
rules
and regulations of such regulatory agencies as shall have competent jurisdiction
over the planning, permitting, design, licensing, construction and testing
of
Unit 2. KCPL
shall not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform hereunder where
such failure to perform is caused by or is a result of Force Majeure. KCPL
agrees that prior to making any discretionary design changes, as distinguished
from design changes required for reliability purposes or by law, that are
expected to increase Cost of Construction by $25
million
or more, KCPL will submit said proposed change to a vote of the Management
Committee.
4.2 Responsibility
for Interconnection Facilities.
Aquila shall be responsible for (and shall use its Commercially Reasonable
Efforts to complete in sufficient time to support the In-Service Operation
Date)
easement acquisition, development and construction of a 161 kV double circuit
transmission line loop to interconnect the Iatan Station Site to the Platte
City-Stranger Creek transmission line. This will also include but not be limited
to relocation of the existing Iatan to St. Xxxxxx, Missouri 345 kV line and
any
other transmission modifications as specified by the interconnection agreement.
All such facilities to be constructed by KCPL and/or Aquila are referred to
herein as the “Interconnection Facilities.” KCPL will be responsible for
interconnecting as specified in the interconnection agreement to the Iatan
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kV bus for Units 1 and 2. The Aquila scope of work described herein shall be
part of the Cost of Construction
to the
extent the costs associated with constructing the Interconnection Facilities
are
required by the interconnection agreement. Aquila shall coordinate all
construction activities with KCPL, including transmission line and substation
scope. Aquila shall not be liable or responsible for any failure to perform
hereunder where such failure to perform is caused by or is a result of Force
Majeure.
The
costs of the Interconnection Facilities, as well as any transmission credits
with respect to the Interconnection Facilities, shall be allocated among the
Owners in proportion to their Common Facilities Ownership Shares.
4.3 In-Service
Operation Date.
Subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, KCPL will use its
Commercially Reasonable Efforts to have Unit 2 operating by the Estimated
In-Service Operation Date.
4.4 Construction
Power.
Construction power used in connection with construction of Unit 2 shall be
provided by Aquila’s St. Xxxxxx Light and Power Division under the applicable
retail rate schedules or a special contract.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, each of the Owners shall have the option
to self-supply its share of construction power to the extent permitted by
law.
4.5 Site
Representative.
During the period from the Closing Date until a reasonable interval (not to
exceed one hundred eighty (180) days) after the In-Service Operation Date,
each
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Owner,
at
its expense, shall have the right to locate an employee (a “Site
Representative”) at the Iatan Station Site to monitor Unit 2 construction.
The Site Representative of a particular Owner may elect to be on-site either
full time or part time at such particular Owner's discretion, provided such
Site
Representative agrees to inform the Operator of its presence on site and
agrees
to comply with all safety, security and other construction or operational
rules
and regulations applicable to personnel at the Iatan Station Site. Should
an
Owner desire to use a non-employee as its Site Representative, said Owner
shall
notify the Operator in writing of its desire to use a non-employee as its
Site
Representative. The written notification shall identify the individual that
the
Owner proposes to use as Site Representative, the company with which the
non-employee is associated, the nature of the relationship between the Owner
and
its proposed non-employee representative and his or her company. The Operator
shall have the right to reasonably reject the proposed non-employee
representative, either the individual proposed to serve as Site Representative
or the company with which the proposed non-employee Site Representative is
associated. The Operator shall respond to an Owner’s request to use a
non-employee Site Representative within thirty (30) days after receiving
written
notification. From the period from the Closing Date until a reasonable time
(consistent with the demobilization of KCPL’s construction activities and in any
event not to exceed six months) after the In-Service Operation Date, the
Operator will provide, at no charge, a suitable area for trailers or other
temporary space in the vicinity of other construction trailers on site, for
such
Owners to occupy, it being understood that Owners choosing to have a Site
Representative shall be responsible for any and all costs (including utilities,
employee compensation and benefits, and facilities) of doing so; after the
In-Service Operation Date and during the life of Unit 2, the Operator will
make reasonable accommodations for the Site Representative at the sole cost
of
the requesting Owner. The Operator will also provide the Site Representative
the
opportunity for reasonable access to discussions regarding the modification,
operation
and maintenance of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility. Each Owner shall cause its
Site Representative to comply with all safety, security and other construction
regulations imposed by the Operator on personnel at the Iatan Station Site.
Each
Owner having a Site Representative hereby agrees to indemnify, defend and
hold
harmless each other Owner (an “Indemnified Owner”) against, and agrees to
hold each Indemnified Owner harmless from, any uninsured
claims,
damages, liabilities, liens, losses or other obligations whatsoever incurred
or
suffered by an Indemnified Owner (together with reasonable costs and expenses,
including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel relating thereto)
arising
out of any action, inaction or activity relating to an Owner’s Site
Representative that results in liability of any sort. No Site Representative
shall have the authority to direct contractor work or the Operator’s operations
and shall in no way obstruct, impend, or cause delay to any work or operations
on site.
4.6 Reporting.
(a) During
the construction period, from Closing through the Commercial Operation
Date, the
Operator shall report (monthly) on the status of construction and provide
the
other Owners with changes to budget and schedule on a monthly basis. Similarly,
any other Owner with a project responsibility (including Aquila as provided
for
in Section 4.2 above) shall have the same obligation with respect to the
other
Owners.
(b) During
the construction period, from Closing through the Commercial Operation
Date, the
Operator shall make available to the other Owners copies of all
monthly
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reports
provided to the Operator from contractors and sub-contractors. Similarly,
any
other Owner with a project responsibility (including Aquila as provided
for in
Section 4.2 above) shall have the same obligation with respect to the
other
Owners. KCPL, and where appropriate other Owners, shall make available
(and
provide to Owners as requested) copies of planning studies, design and
construction specifications, and contracts; and when practicable shall
do so in
time for Owners to comment before decisions are made.
(c) Notwithstanding
this Section 4.6, the duty to disclose documents is limited by Article
XVII.
4.7 Prevailing
Wage.
All contracts for the construction and installation of all or any part
of the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities Upgrades shall contain a
stipulation to the effect that (1) not less than the prevailing hourly
rate of
wages shall be paid to all workmen performing under the contract as provided
in
Sections 290.210 to 290.340, RSMo (the “Prevailing Wage Act”), (2) the
contractor shall forfeit as a penalty to MJMEUC (or, if MJMEUC is not
a party to
the construction contract, to KCPL on behalf of MJMEUC) ten dollars for
each
xxxxxxx employed or such other statutory penalty that may be in effect,
for each
calendar day, or portion thereof, such xxxxxxx is paid less than the
stipulated
rates for any work done under said contract, (3) the contractor shall,
before
receiving final payment, provide to MJMEUC (or, if MJMEUC is not a party
to the
construction contract, to KCPL on behalf of MJMEUC) an affidavit stating
that
the contractor has complied with the provisions of the Prevailing Wage
Act, and
(4) the contractor shall ensure that all its subcontractors also comply
with the
foregoing requirements. Each contractor’s and subcontractor’s bonds shall
guarantee the faithful performance of these provisions.
ARTICLE
V
Management
and Operation of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility
5.1 Management
Committee.
All policies relating to the management, operation and maintenance of
the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility, the Common Facilities and the Iatan Station Site shall be
determined and administered by a management committee consisting of two
representatives of each Owner (the “Management Committee”). The
Management Committee will act and operate Xxxx 0 in accordance with the
Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity. An
appropriate corporate officer of each Owner shall designate, from time
to time,
its two representative members to serve on the Management Committee,
at least
one of whom shall be vested with decision-making authority. Such designation
shall be by written notice to the other Owners. Prior to the In-Service
Operation Date, the Management Committee shall meet not less often than
monthly
and after the In-Service Operation Date, the Management Committee shall
meet not
less often than quarterly, unless Owners mutually agree to change the
meeting
schedule. Meetings of the Management Committee may be conducted by telephone
conference. To the extent possible and where appropriate, the Management
Committee will coordinate the meetings of the Iatan Xxxx 0 Xxxxxxxxxx
Xxxxxxxxx with the meeting of the Iatan Xxxx 0 Xxxxxxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx.
The
Management Committee shall approve five-year maintenance schedules and
budgets,
which shall be prepared on an annual basis and submitted to the Management
Committee by the Operator by October 1 of each year, or as soon as practicable
thereafter, as further provided in Section 6.5.
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5.2 Management
Committee Action.
(a) The
Management Committee shall determine and administer policies and take
all other
action relating to the management, operation and maintenance of the
Iatan
Unit 2 Facility, the Common Facilities and the Iatan Station Site by the
vote of the Owners expressed through their respective representatives
on the
Management Committee. Each Owner shall have a vote on the Management
Committee
equal to its Ownership Share, in the case of decisions related to the
Iatan
Unit 2 Facility, and equal to its Common Facilities Ownership Share, in
the
case of decisions related to the Common Facilities or the Iatan Station
Site.
Except as specified in Section 5.5(d), the vote of an Owner or Owners
whose
Ownership Shares or Common Facilities Ownership Shares (as applicable)
constitute a simple majority shall be necessary and sufficient for
action to be
taken by the Management Committee.
(b) With
regard to annual budgets (both (i) operation and maintenance and (ii)
capital),
should a Management Committee vote on either budget yield the result
of KCPL
“for” and all other Owners “against,” each Owner voting against shall have ten
(10) business days to submit in writing its concerns with KCPL’s budget proposal
and what modifications it would recommend to make the proposed budget
acceptable. KCPL shall review these recommendations. After consideration
KCPL
will either submit a revised budget, or inform the Owners that the
previously
submitted budget will become effective. Should a revised budget be
submitted,
KCPL will convene the Owners via telephone or e-mail for a vote of
the
Management Committee on the revised budget. This process will only
be completed
once in a budget year.
(c) Except
for the rights contained in Section 3.1 of this Agreement, the Management
Committee shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to prevent
any lessee
from taking any action as a result of its leasehold right to possession
of any
portion of the Unit 2 Site or the Nower Property.
(d) The
Management Committee shall not have authority to modify or take any
action
inconsistent with any provision of this Agreement. Any cost or expense
incurred
by an Owner’s Management Committee representative in connection with duties of
such representative shall be borne and paid by the Owner represented
by the
representative.
5.3 Operator.
(a) Each
Owner hereby authorizes KCPL to act (and KCPL agrees to act) as the
exclusive
operator to perform (in such capacity, the “Operator”),
through KCPL’s own employees, agents, servants and contractors, all such
functions
(including, without limitation, the entry into contracts for the benefit
of the
Owners) as
may be
required for the actual design, permitting, development, procurement,
construction, operation and maintenance of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, the
Common Facilities and the Iatan Station Site, subject, however, to
the direction
and control of the Management Committee. The Operator shall at all
times perform
its duties in accordance with Good Utility Practice; provided, however,
and
notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement to the contrary,
the
Operator shall not be liable to any other Owner for any loss, cost,
damage or
expense incurred by such Owner as a result of any action or failure
to act by
the Operator unless the Operator’s action or failure to act is determined to
have been gross negligence or willful misconduct. Each Owner understands
and
agrees that the
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Operator
shall have the sole discretion to manage its employees, agents, servants,
and
contractors on a day-to-day basis to accomplish needed work in the normal
course
of business. The Operator shall be responsible for the administration
and
enforcement of all contracts relating to the construction, ownership
and
operation of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities; provided,
however, that when requested by the Operator, the other Owners shall
reasonably
assist the Operator with these responsibilities. Although the Operator
shall not
be entitled to a management fee under this Agreement, each Owner shall
pay its
proportionate share of the Operator’s total reasonable costs, including
administrative overhead and taxes, incurred while performing its duties
as
Operator for Unit 2 in proportion to the Owners’ Ownership Share and for
the Common Facilities in proportion to the Owners’ Common Facilities Ownership
Shares as set forth in the Accounting Manual attached hereto as Exhibit
J.
(b) Upon
written notice to the Operator, the Owner with the next greatest Ownership
Share
which has the financial capability to act as Operator may, at its option,
forthwith become, and assume the duties of, Operator hereunder in the
stead of
the existing Operator if at such time (i) the Management Committee has
not
elected a new Operator from among the Owners of Unit 2; (ii) either
(A) the
Operator shall have filed a petition commencing a voluntary bankruptcy
case
under Section 301 of Title 11 of the United States Code (the “Bankruptcy
Code”)
or
shall have had filed against it a petition commencing an involuntary
bankruptcy
case under Section 303 of the Bankruptcy Code and such involuntary petition
shall remain undismissed for a period of ninety (90) days, or KCPL’s or any
other Owner’s Ownership Share shall have been seized and held by any
governmental authority having jurisdiction (any of the foregoing, an
“Insolvency
or Seizure”)
or (B)
the Operator is in Default under Section 6.6 and such Default has not
been cured
within the applicable cure period; and (iii)
such
other Owner is not then the subject of an Insolvency or Seizure. KCPL
shall
automatically be redesignated and assume the full functions of Operator
upon
emerging from or otherwise curing the Insolvency or Seizure or Default
that gave
rise to KCPL’s removal as Operator. The Operator acting during any Insolvency or
Seizure or Default of KCPL shall not have the right or power to replace
the then
current plant personnel with the acting Operator’s employees so long as KCPL’s
plant personnel continue to work productively and in sufficient numbers
to
maintain Unit 2’s and the Common Facilities’ operations without material
impairment; in such event Owners shall continue to pay to KCPL the Owners’
proportionate shares of the costs associated with such plant personnel
as though
KCPL were continuing to act as Operator. The acting Operator shall abide
by, and
shall not violate, any provision of any collective bargaining agreement
KCPL has
entered into with its employees; nor shall the acting Operator take any
action
that will materially impair the generation output or materially increase
the
cost of owning and/or operating any generation asset owned by KCPL. The
acting
Operator shall be responsible for the administration and enforcement
of all
existing contracts relating to the construction, ownership and operation
of the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility, the Common Facilities and the Iatan Station Site;
provided, however, that when requested, the other Owners shall reasonably
assist
the acting Operator with these responsibilities, and KCPL will assist
the acting
Operator in any manner reasonably requested.
(c) Contracts
covering design, engineering, procurement, construction and installation
of all
or any part of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and/or the Common Facilities
Upgrades and all other contracts relating to procurement, operation and
maintenance, including contracts for the acquisition of materials, inventories,
supplies, spare parts, equipment, fuel or services,
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shall
be
executed solely by the Operator. Each Owner shall be severally and
not jointly
liable for its Ownership Share and/or Common Facilities Ownership Share
of all
amounts payable under all such contracts, including taxes. In the event
that any
Owner advances a proportion of any such funds in excess of its Ownership
Share
and/or Common Facilities Ownership Share under any such contract, such
Owner
shall have a right of contribution from each Owner that has made payments
that
are proportionately less than its Ownership Share and/or Common Facilities
Ownership Share.
(d) The
Operator shall have the authority and responsibility to execute and,
where
appropriate, will make coordinated filings with all regulatory agencies
having
jurisdiction, of all such applications, amendments, reports and other
documents
and filings as shall be required in or in connection with the licensing
and
other regulatory matters with respect to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the
Common Facilities; provided, however, that each Owner shall be responsible
for
obtaining all required approvals and authorizations relating to its
participation in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities and to
its performance of this Agreement.
(e) The
Operator shall give prompt notice to each of the other Owners of all
material
claims instituted or threatened against the Operator or any Owner,
or any
litigation initiated by the Operator relating to the construction,
ownership or
operation of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and/or the Common Facilities. If
requested by any Owner, the other Owners agree to enter into a joint
defense
agreement with terms and conditions sufficient to preserve (to the
extent
permitted by applicable law) the attorney-client privilege and/or work
product
protections for shared information and cooperation in connection with
any such
claim. The Owners shall cooperate in the defense or prosecution of
any such
claim. All decisions in connection with any legal actions shall be
made by the
Management Committee.
(f) In
performing its responsibilities, as set forth herein, the Operator
shall (i)
carry out the provisions of this Agreement in accordance with Good
Utility
Practice and may not enter into transactions with its affiliates unless
the
terms of such agreements are at least as favorable to the Owners as
those that
would be negotiated between unrelated third parties in a similar agreement,
and
(ii) use its Commercially Reasonable Efforts to secure, administer
and enforce
contracts for the construction of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common
Facilities Upgrades in a manner to achieve Commercial Operation in
accordance
with a completion schedule and budget established by, and as amended
from time
to time by, the Management Committee, and (iii) provide the Owners with
their proportionate benefits, or the monetary equivalent thereof, received
by
the Operator that arise from or are associated with costs paid by the
Owners
hereunder. The Operator shall also consult with the Owners with respect
to any
anticipated material delays in the completion schedule or increases
in the
construction budget. In no event shall any failure by the Operator
to follow
Good Utility Practice give any Owner cause for a private cause of action,
unless
such failure constitutes gross negligence or willful misconduct.
(g) Operator
shall, except as otherwise provided in Article XVII, furnish to any
Owner such
information and copies of such documents and records as such Owner
may
reasonably request from time to time concerning any aspect of the construction,
ownership and operation of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common
Facilities to the extent they impact Unit 2. Should the Operator deem that
the request for information is unreasonable, the Operator shall
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provide
access to such information and the requesting Owner shall be allowed
to bring in
such copying equipment as necessary to make such copies as the Owner
desires.
Said Owner shall be solely responsible for the costs associated with
such
reproduction effort, including the Operator’s personnel assigned to ensure that
the originals are not damaged, lost or misfiled throughout this
process.
(h) After
the
In-Service Operation Date, the Operator shall provide monthly reports
to the
Owners on fuel supply, operation and maintenance, environmental status
or
issues, monthly or quarterly Continuous Emission Monitoring System
data and
allowance consumption data.
(i) The
Operator will act and operate Xxxx 0 in accordance with the Certificates of
Public Convenience and Necessity.
5.4 Xxxx
0
Facility Additions and Retirements.
(a) The
Management Committee shall cause to be made such property additions
to (whether
in the nature of an operating, maintenance, or capital expense) and
retirements
from the facilities and property constituting the Iatan Unit 2 Facility in
the ordinary course of operation and ownership of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility
as may, from time to time, be deemed by the Management Committee
to be necessary
or desirable. Such additions and retirements shall be set forth in
the annual
operating and capital budget to the extent practicable. Each Owner
shall pay its
proportionate share of costs associated with any such property additions
or
retirements.
(b) Each
Owner shall pay for the cost of any such property addition thereto
or the
expenses relating to the retirement therefrom in the same percentage
as its
Ownership Share, in accordance with Article XIV. The rights, titles
and
interests of any Owner in and to any such property addition shall
be
proportionate to its Ownership Share.
(c) Upon
removal or retirement of any facilities or property included in any
portion of
the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and subject to compliance with the applicable
provisions of any related security agreement contemplated herein,
the Management
Committee may either (i) divide or partition such removed or retired
facilities
or property, in which case each Owner shall be responsible for the
disposition
thereof at its own cost, or (ii) sell or otherwise dispose of such
removed or
retired facilities or property and distribute the net proceeds thereof
to or for
the account of the Owners in proportion to their respective Ownership
Shares.
5.5 Damage,
Destruction or Condemnation.
(a) If
a
portion of Unit 2 should be damaged, destroyed or condemned, the Management
Committee shall vote on whether to repair, restore or reconstruct the damaged,
destroyed or condemned facilities.
(i) If
the
Management Committee shall elect to repair, restore, or reconstruct
Xxxx 0
and the estimated cost of doing so is less than or equal to $650,000,000
(as
adjusted for inflation from the Closing Date based on the Implicit
Price
Deflator for Gross Domestic Product (with year 2000 = index number
100),
published quarterly by the Bureau of
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Economic
Analysis
of the United States Department of Commerce or, if no such data
is published by
such bureau, such successor or replacement index as may be reasonably
selected
by the Management Committee) in excess of the insurance proceeds
available for
repair, restoration or reconstruction, the Owners shall apply their
Ownership
Shares of Unit 2 insurance proceeds and shall fund their respective
Ownership Shares of the additional costs of repair, restoration
or
reconstruction. Such repair, restoration or reconstruction shall
be managed by
KCPL in the same manner, and subject to the same terms, as the
original
construction of Unit 2 hereunder.
(ii) If
the
Management Committee shall elect to repair, restore, or reconstruct
Xxxx 0
and the estimated cost of doing so is greater than $650,000,000
(as adjusted for
inflation from the Closing Date based on the Implicit Price Deflator
for Gross
Domestic Product (with year 2000 = index number 100), published
quarterly by the
Bureau of Economic Analysis of the United States Department of
Commerce or, if
no such data is published by such bureau, such successor or replacement
index as
may be reasonable selected by the Management Committee) in excess
of the
insurance proceeds available for repair, restoration or reconstruction,
the
Owners voting to repair, subject to any necessary regulatory or
lender approval
and release of any applicable mortgage indenture, may then purchase
the
dissenting Owners’ Ownership Shares at the depreciated original cost, including
allowance for funds used during construction, or in the case of
KEPCO or MJMEUC,
capitalized interest or other similar cost component, minus the
Owner’s pro-rata
share of any Unit 2 insurance proceeds, plus the dissenting Owner’s
outstanding prepaid Ground Lease rental payments, if any. If multiple
Owners
elect to purchase the dissenting Owners’ Ownership Shares, said shares shall be
sold pro rata based on the purchasing Owners’ then-current Ownership Shares,
unless they agree on a different method of allocation. If the Owners
favoring
repair do not purchase the dissenting Owner’s share at the
above-described price, then
the
dissenting owner may either (A) forfeit its share and receive its
pro-rata share
of any insurance proceeds or (B) contribute its pro-rata share
of the insurance
proceeds and remain an Owner at a reduced Ownership Share.
(b) If
(i)
all
or
any part of the Common Facilities shall be damaged, destroyed or
condemned;
and
(ii)
(A)
Unit 1 or one or more Additional Units is then operating or, following
repair, restoration or reconstruction of the Common Facilities
and/or such unit
or units, would be capable of operating, or
(B)
Unit 2 has not been damaged, or the Management Committee has elected
to repair,
restore or reconstruct Xxxx 0, then it
shall
be the obligation of the owners of such unit or units that are
operating or
capable of operating (“Operable
Unit(s)”)
to
repair, restore or reconstruct the damaged, destroyed or condemned
Common
Facilities and to pay the costs thereof in proportion to their
ownership
interests in such Operable Unit(s).
(c) In
the
event that all or any part of the Common Facilities shall be damaged,
destroyed
or condemned and they will not be repaired or reconstructed pursuant
to Section
5.5(b) above, the proceeds from any insurance or condemnation award
related to
the Common Facilities shall be distributed to or for the account
of such Owners
in proportion to their Common Facilities Ownership Shares, and
the remaining
facilities shall be disposed of by the Owners in a manner as may
then be
mutually agreed by them and the net proceeds therefrom shall be
distributed to
or for the account of the Owners in proportion to their Common
Facilities
Ownership Shares, all subject to the liens of any encumbrance and
the provisions
of any related security agreement contemplated in Section 10.2.
If all or a
portion of the Common Facilities are rebuilt,
but the Owners have determined that Unit 2 will not be rebuilt,
then the Owners
agree
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that
the
insurance proceeds derived from any casualty or loss shall be
used to
reconstruct the Common Facilities, and shall be applied to the
extent the Common
Facilities are used to serve Unit 1 or any Additional Unit. In
such event, the
Xxxx 0 Xxxxxx (xx Xxxx 0 xxxxx xx the sole remaining unit), or
the owners of the
remaining operating coal-fired units shall purchase the Common
Facilities,
subject to any necessary regulatory or lender approval and release
of any
applicable mortgage indenture and only to the extent they are
necessary to
operate the remaining coal-fired units, from those Owners that
will no longer
have an ownership interest in any remaining coal-fired units
on the Initial
Iatan Station Site at a purchase price equal to the depreciated
original cost,
plus any allowance for funds used during construction or in the
case of KEPCO or
MJMEUC, capitalized interest or other similar cost component.
(d) Unless
approved by a
majority of the
Management Committee
other
than
the
Operator,
the
Operator shall not sell or otherwise dispose of any facilities
pursuant to this
Section 5.5 to an affiliate except for a cash price equal to
the fair market
value of such facilities or property as determined by an independent
appraisal.
(e) If
the
Management Committee determines not to repair, restore or rebuild
any damage to
Xxxx 0, then the Owners shall be pro-rata responsible for removal
costs
necessitated by the damage to Unit 2, which may be paid out of proceeds
from the Unit 2 insurance.
ARTICLE
VI
Capacity
and Energy Entitlements; Financial Obligations; Access to
Information;
Defaults;
Emissions Allowance Credits; Regional Transmission
Organizations
6.1 Capacity
Entitlement.
Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement,
each Owner shall be
entitled to the electrical capacity of Unit 2 (as determined from time to
time by the Operator and applicable rules of the reliability
region, but not in
excess of that then permitted by law) in proportion to its Ownership
Share at
such time, and it hereby acknowledges that it has no right to
any capacity in
excess of such amount.
6.2 Energy
Entitlement.
Subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement,
each Owner (a)
shall be entitled at any time to schedule and have the right
to receive
electrical energy from Unit 2 at a rate not in excess of its Ownership
Share of the Net Generation Output of electrical energy of Unit 2
and
(b)
if so requested in writing by the Operator, shall schedule and
receive energy
from Unit 2 at a rate not less than its Ownership Share of the Minimum
Operable Capacity of Unit 2 (as determined by the Operator, but not less
than that then permitted by law) at such time. Net Generation
Output of
Unit 2 shall be measured at the metering point for interconnection
as
defined by the SPP.
6.3 Test
Energy.
Each Owner shall be entitled to all available test energy generated
by
Unit 2 in proportion to such Owner’s Ownership Share at such time.
Regardless of whether an Owner accepts or receives any such test
energy, each
Owner shall be responsible for its Ownership Share of any costs,
expenses or
penalties resulting from the generation of test energy attributable
to the
Owner’s participation in any regional transmission organization or
power pool
that
oversees or controls the dispatch of the Owner’s capacity and energy from
Unit 2, including,
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but
not
limited to, energy imbalance charges and/or credits, uninstructed
deviation
penalties, less charges and uplift charges and/or credits.
6.4 Financial
Obligations.
On or
after the Closing Date and within ten days of receipt of invoice
from the
Operator, each Owner (other than KCPL) shall pay its Ownership
Share of the Cost
of Construction incurred by KCPL as of the Closing Date, plus
any interest
charges or accumulated allowance for funds used during construction
with respect
to Cost of Construction incurred as of the Closing Date, all
as reflected on
said invoice. Thereafter, each Owner shall pay
in
accordance with the Construction Period Cash Flow Memorandum
or the Operating
Period Cash Flow Memorandum (as applicable) unless otherwise
provided.
For
the
purposes of this Section
6.4,
except as otherwise provided, expenditures shall not be deemed
to include (i)
interest charges on borrowed funds, income taxes, and property,
business and
occupation taxes of each Owner, which shall be borne entirely
by such Owner, and
(ii) depreciation, amortization and allowances for funds used
during
construction.
6.5 Access
to Information.
(a) Subject
to Article XVII and
pursuant to Section II of the Accounting Manual,
each
Owner shall have the right to inspect and audit the books and
records of the
Operator as they relate to the charges surrounding the Iatan
Unit 2
Facility and Common Facilities.
KCPL or
the Operator shall keep complete and accurate records regarding
Cost of
Construction and Cost of Operation of Unit 2 and Common Facilities and will
make available for Owners’ inspection and audit all records regarding Cost of
Construction and Cost of Operation of Unit 2 and Common Facilities
sufficient to allow Owners to determine that such costs and expenditures
imputed
to Unit 2 or the Common Facilities by KCPL under this and other ancillary
agreements are accurate.
(b) The
Operator shall make Commercially Reasonable Efforts to provide
operating,
maintenance, and capital budgets to each Owner for the upcoming
five-year period
by October 1 of each year, or as soon as practicable thereafter.
(c) To
the
extent reasonably practicable, by October 1 of each year, the
Operator shall
provide a schedule of planned maintenance outages to the Owners.
Changes to such
schedule shall be provided to the Owners, to the extent reasonably
practicable,
at least six (6) months prior to a scheduled outage. The Operator
shall
communicate as soon as practicable any changes to the outage
schedule that occur
within the six-month window, and the Operator will make a reasonable
effort to
minimize the impact of the change on all of the Owners.
(d) In
addition to the foregoing, the Operator shall notify the Owners
in a timely
manner of all significant events the Operator deems material
to the construction
and/or operation of Unit 2 and/or the Common Facilities.
6.6 Default.
(a) Prior
to
the In-Service Operation Date, an Owner shall be in default if
such Owner
should:
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(i) fail
or
be unable, for any reason whatsoever, within ten (10) days
following written
notice of delinquency to such Owner by the Operator, to make
or cause to be made
any payment owing hereunder for or on account of the construction
of the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility or the Common Facilities Upgrades, provided, however,
that
the Operator will first draw on such Owner’s letter of credit provided under
Section 8.1(d), and if sufficient funds are available under
the letter of
credit, then the draw shall be deemed to cure the payment breach
without further
action on the part of the Owner so long as the amount
available for drawing under such letter of credit is replenished
to the amount
required under Section 8.1(d) within ten (10) days of each
such
drawing;
(ii) be
in
breach
of any
other obligation hereunder (“Non-Financial
Default”)
for a
period of ten (10) days or more after notice thereof by the
Operator
or, if
the Operator is in breach, by any other Owner;
provided, however, such Owner
or
Operator
will not
be in default for a Non-Financial Default which does not materially
affect the
other Owners or construction of Unit 2 or the Common Facilities Upgrades,
if
the
Owner
or
Operator makes diligent and continuous efforts to cure the
breach
and
cures
the breach
within
thirty (30) days of the notice of Non-Financial Default;
(iii) admit
in
writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become
due or shall
make a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors,
or shall consent to
the appointment of a receiver for the whole or any part of
its utility assets;
or shall be subject to an Insolvency or Seizure; or an adjudication
order,
judgment or decree shall be entered by any court or regulatory
body of competent
jurisdiction appointing, without such Owner’s consent, a receiver for the whole
or any substantial part of its assets and such adjudication
order, judgment,
decree, or order shall not be vacated or set aside or stayed
within ninety (90)
days after the entry thereof; or
(iv) be
in
default, under any mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument
under which a
lien or other security interest has been granted or will be
acquired in all or
any part of such Owner’s ownership interest in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility if
such default has not been waived by the affected creditor or
cured within
the
applicable period for such default under such mortgage, deed
of trust or other
instrument.
This
provision shall not apply to KEPCO to the extent that KEPCO
is then a borrower
of RUS or RUS then guarantees or insures any loan to KEPCO.
(b) After
the
In-Service Operation Date, an Owner shall be in default if
such Owner should
fail or be unable, for any reason whatsoever, within ten
(10)
days
following notice of delinquency to such Owner, to make or cause
to be made any
payment due hereunder
or shall
fail to provide the required Emission Allowances pursuant to
Section
6.8.
(c) If,
prior
to the In-Service
Operation Date, any Owner is in default pursuant to Section
6.6(a), then the
Operator shall provide written notice thereof to all of the
Owners. Such notice
shall set forth in reasonable detail the name of the defaulting
Owner, any
amounts unpaid, and the date of such default. Within ten (10)
days of receipt of
such notice, each non-defaulting Owner may, by written notice
to the other
Owners, elect to fund all or a portion of the defaulting Owner’s share of the
costs to complete construction of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common
Facility Upgrades in exchange for an increase in its Ownership
Share pursuant to
this
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Section
6.6(c). If multiple non-defaulting Owners so elect, the portions
they fund shall
be allocated pro rata based on their then-current Ownership
Shares, unless they
agree on a different allocation. If the defaulting Owner
is in payment default
under Section 6.6(a)(i) and if voluntary elections are not
sufficient to fully
cover the defaulting Owner’s payment obligations, all non-defaulting Owners
shall be required to fund their pro-rata shares based on
their then-current
Ownership Shares, unless they agree on a different allocation.
The defaulting
Owner’s remaining Ownership Share in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility (and its
corresponding entitlements to capacity and energy) shall,
upon implementation of
this Section 6.6(c), be irrevocably limited to the percentage
thereof as is
equal to the ratio of (a) the payments made by the defaulting
Owner to (b) one
hundred twenty-five percent (125%) of the total Iatan Unit 2 Facility
construction expenditures of the Owners, exclusive of any
allowance for funds
used during construction and upon completion of the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility
the defaulting Owner shall remain subject to each of the
provisions of this
Agreement with respect to its reduced Ownership Share therein.
The respective
Ownership Shares (and their respective entitlements to capacity
and energy) and
the Common Facilities Ownership Shares of all affected Owners
shall adjust
automatically and proportionately to reflect the defaulting
Owner’s decreasing
Ownership Share and the non-defaulting Owners’ increasing Ownership Shares as
and to the extent that additional construction expenditures
are made or caused
to be made by each non-defaulting Owner for completion of
the Iatan Unit 2
Facility and the Common Facility Upgrades. If an Owner remains
in default under
Section 6.6(a) for a period of three consecutive calendar
months, (i) the
Operator may (but shall not be obligated to) cease making
further demands on
such defaulting Owner and (ii) the Ownership Share of such
defaulting Owner
shall continue to be irrevocably reduced as provided in this
paragraph. Any
defaulting Owner under this Section 6.6(c) shall forthwith,
and without further
demand, execute and deliver to KCPL for filing in the Recorder
of Deeds for
Platte County, Missouri, such conveyances, termination agreements,
or other
documentation or instruments as KCPL deems reasonably necessary
and appropriate,
including any instrument as may be appropriate to fully convey
and vest in the
remaining Owners the revised Ownership Shares in Unit 2 and/or Common
Facilities, free and clear of all liens, claims, and encumbrances
except as
otherwise provided by this Agreement, together with such
assignments and other
releases or certificates as may be necessary to accomplish
a reallocation of the
Ownership Shares under this Agreement and any ancillary agreement.
(d) If
on or
after the In-Service Operation Date, any Owner is in default
pursuant to Section
6.6(b), upon written notice by the Operator to such defaulting
Owner, such Owner
shall not be entitled to schedule or receive any energy from
Unit 2 during
the continuance of such default; and during the remaining
period of any such
default (i) the defaulting Owner’s energy shall be sold by the Operator to pay
the defaulting Owner’s allocation of the monthly operating costs, including the
cost of Emission Allowances, of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility. In the event
that such energy sales result in revenues in excess of the
defaulting Owner’s
arrearage, the Operator shall return to the defaulting Owner
ninety percent
(90%) of such excess revenues net of projected or actual
taxes owed or expected
as a result of exercising this remedy. The Operator shall
retain the remaining
excess revenues as an administrative fee. The Operator shall
not be liable for
any failure to maximize the revenues from such energy sale
or to account to the
defaulting Owner therefor. In the event that either the revenue
from such sales
is less than the defaulting Owner’s arrearage for more than three (3)
consecutive months, or the defaulting Owner remains in default
for more than
three (3) consecutive months (during which time a defaulting
Owner may cure the
default), then the defaulting Owner shall offer to sell,
subject to
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any
necessary regulatory or lender approval and release of
any applicable mortgage
indenture, its Ownership Share to KCPL at depreciated original
cost plus
allowance for funds used during construction (or as to
KEPCO or MJMEUC, its
capitalized interest or other similar cost component),
along with its
proportionate interest in the Common Facilities (“Defaulted
Shares”).
Should
KCPL elect not to acquire all of the Defaulted Shares,
the other non-defaulting
Owners may, subject to any necessary regulatory or lender
approval and release
of any applicable mortgage indenture, elect to acquire
the Defaulted Shares of
the defaulting Owner in proportion to their respective
Ownership Shares at the
defaulting Owner’s depreciated original cost plus allowance for funds used
during construction (or as to KEPCO or MJMEUC, its capitalized
interest or other
similar cost component), each of which shall be defined
as a “Voluntary
Acquisition Election”
under
this Agreement Succeeding Voluntary Acquisition Elections
for any remaining
Defaulted Shares may continue until no Defaulted Shares
remain. To
the
extent Defaulted Shares remain after all Voluntary Acquisition
Elections, the
non-defaulting Owners will be required to acquire the remaining
Defaulted Shares
pro-rata according to their respective Ownership Shares
prior to the default,
subject to any necessary regulatory or lender approval
and release of any
applicable mortgage indenture. The non-defaulting Owners
shall not be obligated
to accept a cure of a default by a defaulting Owner under
this subparagraph (d)
after the defaulting Owner has been in default for three
consecutive months. If
one year elapses after the date the Operator initially
sells a defaulting
Owner’s energy to pay the defaulting Owner’s allocation of monthly operating
expenses and the defaulting Owner remains in default pending
the sale of its
Defaulted Shares, or otherwise, the non-defaulting Owners
shall be required to
sell, or use the
defaulting Owner’s energy for their own account in proportion to their
respective Ownership Shares, provided such Owners pay the
corresponding
proportion of operating and capital costs.
(e) Nothing
in Section 6.6(c) or 6.6(d) is intended to relieve, or
shall relieve, a
defaulting Owner of its liability for the default, and
the exercise by the
non-defaulting Owner or Owners of any rights provided for
in this Section 6.6
(including rights that reduce the Ownership Share of the
defaulting Owner or
permit the non-defaulting Owner or Owners to use the capacity
and energy
entitlements of the defaulting Owner) shall be considered
only in mitigation of
the damages, and not liquidated damages, due the non-defaulting
Owner or Owners
for which the defaulting Owner shall be and remain liable
until paid, together
with interest thereon at a rate equal to one hundred twenty-five
percent (125%)
of each non-defaulting Owner’s rate of accrual of (i) allowance for funds used
during construction, (ii) interest during construction,
or (iii) other similar
cost component regularly used by such non-defaulting Owner,
each as applicable
during such period.
(f) In
the
event of default under Section 6.6, each Owner grants,
covenants and agrees that
the non-defaulting Owners shall have a lien on the defaulting
Owner’s tenant in
common interest, right to production, and any leasehold
interest such defaulting
Owner may have in the Unit 2 Site and Common Facilities. In addition, any
Owners that possess an ownership interest in the Iatan
Station Site shall have a
right, in their discretion, to require any defaulting Owner
that has a leasehold
interest in the Iatan Station Site to execute and deliver
an executed leasehold
mortgage, in recordable form, and subject to such terms
as the Owners possessing
an ownership interest in the Iatan Station Site may reasonably
require as a
precondition to the grant of any leasehold interest in
any portion of the Iatan
Station Site.
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(g) In the event that any dispute exists between or among the Owners or the Operator with respect to the payment or performance of any obligation of an Owner or the performance of the Operator under this Agreement, such Owner shall tender payment or performance as demanded by the Operator or any other Owner under protest and reservation of rights without waiving such Owner’s rights thereafter to initiate arbitration proceedings to resolve such dispute.
6.7 Emission
Allowances.
(a) Each
Owner shall purchase or otherwise provide Emission Allowances
to the Unit 2
Allowance account as set forth in Sections 6.8 through
6.14 (the “Allowance
Contribution”),
below, it being recognized that the term “allowance account,” may encompass more
than one such account, each for a different pollutant
for which Allowances are
required by governmental agencies. In the event that
a governmental agency
allocates any Emission Allowances to Xxxx 0, such new Emission Allowances
will be accounted for on an annual basis and consumed
as needed for the
operation of Unit 2. Any Allowances allocated by a governmental agency
for
an annual period (or other control period during that
year, as applicable) that
are not consumed during the year of allocation shall
be apportioned among the
Owners based on the difference between what was allocated
to each Owner and what
was consumed by such Owner. Any costs associated with
such new Emission
Allowances shall be borne by the Owners in proportion
to their Ownership Shares,
unless otherwise allocated to the Owners by the governmental
agency.
(b) The
Owners hereby appoint KCPL, in its capacity as Operator
to be the Designated
Representative for Unit 2, as that term is defined under 40 C.F.R. § 72.2
and other currently and subsequently applicable regulations,
which, for the
duration of this appointment, and except as otherwise
provided in this
Agreement, will be responsible for complying with the
Emission Allowance
programs applicable to Xxxx 0 and have full powers of disposition over the
Emission Allowances in the Unit 2 Allowance account; provided, however,
that such appointment will in no way affect the responsibility
of each Owner to
comply with all requirements under applicable law and
this Agreement pertaining
to that Owner’s participation in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common
Facilities, including, without limitation, the indemnity
obligations of said
Owner pursuant to Section 11.5 hereunder.
6.8 Quarterly
Allowance Requirement, Initial Share, and Allowance Contribution.
(a) The
Operator shall provide each Owner on a quarterly basis
a copy of the emissions
data submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
(“EPA”)
(or
other authorized agency, if applicable) pursuant to the
Acid Rain Program
established under Title IV of the Clean Air Act Amendments
of 1990 (or pursuant
to another currently or subsequently applicable Emission
Allowance program)
unless an Owner waives this requirement pursuant to 40
C.F.R. § 72.21(d)(2) with
respect to the Acid Rain Program (or other analogous
regulation with respect to
another currently or subsequently applicable Emission
Allowance
program).
(b) By
November 5th
of each
year, the Operator shall notify each Owner of its projected
proportionate share
(based on net megawatt hours taken by each Owner) of
emissions from Unit 2
for the fourth quarter of such year (“Emissions
Projection”).
Within fifteen (15)
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days
after the end of each calendar quarter, the Operator
shall notify each Owner of
its proportionate share of the actual emissions from
Unit 2 for the
calendar quarter just ended (“Actual Emissions”).
(c) Within
thirty (30) days of receipt of the Emissions Projection
(in the case of the
fourth quarter of each year) or the statement of Actual
Emissions (in the case
of the first three quarters of each year), each Owner
other than KCPL shall
provide its proportionate share of Emission Allowances
for the calendar quarter
covered by such projection or statement.
(d) With
respect to the fourth calendar quarter of each year,
to the extent an Owner’s
Emissions Projection exceeded its Actual Emissions
(“Excess
Allowances”),
an
Owner would be entitled to a refund or could leave
its Excess Allowances in the
Unit 2 account to be credited against the following quarter’s emissions. To
the extent an Owner’s Actual Emissions exceeded its Emissions Projection,
an
Owner shall provide the Operator with sufficient Emission
Allowances to cover
the shortfall within thirty (30) days of such notice
of Actual
Emissions.
(e) Any
Owner
that is also a Unit 1 Owner may fulfill its obligations to provide
Allowances for Unit 2 hereunder by a reallocation of Allowances from
Xxxx 0 to Unit 2, provided such reallocation is permitted by and
effected in compliance with applicable law and provided
such reallocation does
not result in insufficient Allowances being available
from such Owner for
Unit 1.
(f) Anything
to the contrary in subsections (a) through (e) above
notwithstanding, to the
extent that any emissions are regulated under a program
that requires Allowances
to be in place on a calendar cycle that is not consistent
with such subsections,
the Operator shall provide notice to the other Owners
at least sixty (60) days
prior to any relevant compliance deadline and the Owners
shall purchase or
otherwise provide their allocable shares of any required
Allowances at least
thirty (30) days prior to the relevant compliance deadline.
If the provision of
Allowances is required in advance of the end of the
applicable operating period
or as soon after the applicable operating period that
the Operator determines it
is not feasible to base the allocation of Allowances
on the Owners’ actual
energy usage, the Owners’ allocable shares shall initially be based on their
Ownership Shares, with a subsequent true-up based on
the net megawatt hours
taken by each Owner during the applicable operating
period; otherwise, the
allocable shares shall be based on the net megawatt
hours taken by each Owner
during the applicable operating period.
6.9 Annual
Adjustment of Allowance Contribution.
Each Owner’s allocation of Allowances in Unit 2’s Allowance account shall
be reduced upon EPA’s (or other authorized agency’s) annual deduction of
Allowances from Unit 2’s Allowance account pursuant to 40 C.F.R. § 73.35,
or other subsequently or currently applicable regulations,
in an amount equal to
its allocated share of Unit 2’s Allowances for the year or other control
period. To the extent that an Owner’s Allowance allocation for the year just
concluded exceeded its required share of Unit 2’s Emission Allowances, such
excess Allowances shall be credited to that Owner’s Allowance Allocation for the
current year.
6.10 Excess
Allowances.
An Owner may direct the Operator at any time to file
a request with applicable
governmental agencies to transfer Allowances from a
given year’s
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subaccount
within Unit 2’s Allowance account to an account designated by such
Owner.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, there shall
be no obligation on the part
of the Operator to file a request for transfer if
such transfer will result in
the failure of Unit 2 to meet its Allowance requirements.
6.11 Procedures
for Transferring Allowances; Compliance Use Dates.
All Allowance transfers required or authorized by
this Article shall be effected
in accordance with procedures specified by EPA (or
other government agencies
with jurisdiction over such transfers) under EPA’s Allowance Tracking System
established pursuant to 40 C.F.R. Part 73, Subpart
C (or analogous provisions of
other currently or subsequently applicable Allowance
programs). An obligation
hereunder to transfer or acquire Allowances required
for a given calendar year
or other control period shall be deemed satisfied
only if the Allowances
transferred to the Unit 2 account bear a compliance-use date (as such term
is currently defined in 40 C.F.R. § 72.2 or any currently or subsequently
applicable regulations) for such year or control
period (or any earlier year or
control period).
6.12 Restrictions
on Allowance Transfers to Cover Excess Emissions.
The Operator shall not authorize the transfer of
any Allowances supplied by an
Owner from the Iatan Unit 2 account to the account of any other unit to
cover excess emissions at such other unit pursuant
to 40 C.F.R. § 73.35(b) or
any currently or subsequently applicable regulations,
or for any purpose (other
than an Owner’s exercise of its rights under Section
6.10),
without the prior approval of such Owner.
6.13 Acquisition
of Allowances by Operator, Reimbursement of Costs.
In the event that any Owner has failed to supply
its Annual Allowance
Contribution by the deadlines established under Sections
6.8 (c), (d), and (f)
of this Agreement, the Operator shall provide notice
thereof to such Owner. If
such Owner does not provide its Allowance Contribution
by February 15th of the
year immediately subsequent to the year in which
the emission occurred (or at
least thirty (30) days prior to any deadline contemplated
in Section 6.8(f)),
the Operator may attempt to acquire Allowances to
cover the shortfall. The costs
incurred by the Operator to acquire Allowances pursuant
to this Section 6.13
(including commercially reasonable brokerage fees)
shall be reimbursed by such
deficient Owner
within
ten (10) days after receipt by such deficient Owner
of an
invoice from the Operator documenting the incurrence
and amount of such costs.
In addition, the deficient Owner shall pay to the
Operator a service fee equal
to 25% of the costs incurred by the Operator to acquire
the deficient
Owner’s
required Allowances. In the event that the Operator
is unable or unwilling to
obtain Allowances, the Owner shall be deemed to be
in default of this Agreement.
Any Owner that fails to true-up its allowance account
by February 28th of each
year (or other applicable compliance deadline) agrees
to be responsible for any
civil or criminal sanctions imposed as a result of
such failure. Any Owner that
fails to provide its proportionate share of Emission
Allowances and said failure
results in notice of violation and/or sanctions issued
by a regulatory agency,
shall publicly acknowledge, in a manner acceptable
to KCPL, that it was its
actions or inactions that resulted in said notice
of violation and/or
sanctions.
6.14 Compliance
Not Measured on Unit Basis.
To the extent that compliance with Allowances and
related requirements for any
type of regulated emissions (“Site-Based Emissions”) from Xxxx 0,
Xxxx 0, and/or any Additional Unit(s) is, pursuant to
applicable law
and
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regulations,
measured based on total emissions from the Iatan
Station Site as a whole rather
than separately measured based on emissions from
individual units thereon, the
following provisions shall apply and shall supersede
any contrary provisions of
Sections 6.7 through 6.13:
(a) The
Management Committee shall make a reasonable allocation
of Site-Based Emissions
among the units on the Iatan Station Site from
time to time based on the units’
actual or (if data regarding actual emissions is
not readily available)
projected output of the Site-Based Emissions.
(b) To
the
extent that the Unit 1 emissions allocation determined pursuant to
subsection (a) exceeds the emissions allowances
for the relevant Site-Based
Emissions that are available to Unit 1 under the applicable regulatory
regime, the Owners that are Unit 1 owners shall be responsible (in
proportion to their respective Unit 1 Ownership Shares) for purchasing or
providing additional Allowances so that Unit 1 will at all times have
sufficient Allowances to cover the Unit 1 emissions
allocation.
(c) The
Owners shall be responsible (in proportion to their
respective Ownership Shares)
for purchasing or providing Allowances in addition
to the Allowances referred to
in clause (b) so that the Iatan Station Site will
at all times have sufficient
Allowances to comply with the applicable Site-Based
Emissions
requirements.
(d) The
foregoing items (a) through (c) shall be separately
determined for each
different type of Site-Based Emissions.
6.15 Regional
Transmission Organizations.
(a) Initially,
Unit 2 will be designated as a network resource within
SPP. Each Owner
shall be authorized to register, and, if applicable,
bid its entitlement to
capacity and energy under this Agreement with a
regional transmission
organization or power pool (an “RTO”)
that
oversees or controls the dispatch of the Owner’s capacity and energy from
Unit 2; provided, however, that such registration or
bidding does not
adversely affect the designation of Unit 2 as an SPP designated resource.
All changes to RTO status will be determined by
the Management
Committee.
(b) Capacity
and energy from Unit 2 will be delivered to the Owners at the transmission
interconnection point for Unit 2. Each Owner will be responsible for
arranging for transmission service for its ratable
share of such capacity and
energy. Each Owner shall be responsible for any
costs attributable to the
Owner’s participation in an RTO that oversees or controls
the dispatch of the
Owner’s capacity and energy from Xxxx 0, including, but not limited to,
energy imbalance charges and/or credits, uninstructed
deviation penalties, loss
charges and uplift charges/credits.
6.16 Transaction
with Other Parties.
Each Owner is entitled to transact with other parties
for the supply of capacity
and energy from Unit 2 in accordance with applicable regulations and
separate agreements; provided that such transactions
shall not convey to any
party any rights hereunder or with respect to the
construction and/or operation
of Unit 2 and no such transactions shall result in any
person or entity
being in privity with the Owners or Operator hereunder.
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ARTICLE
VII
Fuel
Supply
7.1 Procurement
of Fuel.
KCPL shall procure, furnish, or cause to be furnished,
the fuel supply for the
Iatan Station, including Unit 2.
7.2 Negotiation
and Renegotiation of Contracts.
KCPL shall have the right to negotiate, renegotiate
or modify coal supply
contracts, rail transportation and related (including
but not limited to rail
car supply and maintenance) contracts, and related
Fuel Commodities supply
contracts; and to settle disputes on all of the
above.
7.3 Ownership.
Fuel for the Iatan Station shall be paid for
and owned by each Owner in
accordance with the Iatan Unit 2 Accounting Manual, a copy of which is
attached hereto as Exhibit J. Fuel shall include
Fuel
Commodities and costs included in the definition
of Actual Fuel
Costs.
7.4 Fuel
Supply Interruption.
If an interruption in fuel supplies or fuel transportation
materially impairs
the Net Generation Output of Xxxx 0 xxx/xx Xxxx 0, then the Operator
is authorized to determine how to allocate fuel
supplies between Unit 1 and
Unit 2. If the Owners do not unanimously agree with
such allocation at the
time of such fuel supply or transportation interruption,
any energy generated
under such circumstances shall be allocated among
the Owners in proportion to
their respective Common Facilities Ownership
Shares. The Owners will determine
at such time how to allocate equitably among
the Owners the operating,
maintenance and other costs incurred during such
fuel interruption
operation.
7.5 KCPL
Fuel Transportation.
To the extent KCPL uses rail transportation facilities
(including KCPL’s
or its affiliates’ facilities) for delivery of fuel to the Iatan
Station Site,
the costs thereof shall comply with Section 5.3(f).
ARTICLE
VIII
Financial
Responsibility
8.1 Demonstration
of Creditworthiness During Construction.
Each Owner shall maintain a proven ability to
pay and perform all funding
and other financial obligations required of it
prior to the Commercial Operation
Date. The Owners may demonstrate this in any
of the following ways:
(a) by
maintaining a senior unsecured long-term debt
rating of not less than BBB- as
determined by Standard & Poor’s (“S&P”)
and/or
Baa3 as determined by Xxxxx’x Investors Service (“Moody’s”)
and an
ability, as supported by financial projections
for a term of at least five years
and, at the request of the Owners whose Ownership
Shares constitute a majority
of the total Ownership Shares, by an evaluation
performed by S&P pursuant to
its Ratings Evaluation Service or by Moody’s pursuant to its equivalent product
(if available), to maintain such a rating; or
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(b) by
maintaining a total indebtedness of sixty-two and
one-half percent (62.5%) or
less of total capitalization or maintaining net
income plus interest, taxes,
depreciation, amortization and certain other non-cash
charges above two hundred
percent (200%) of interest charges for the trailing
four fiscal quarters at the
end of each fiscal year; or
(c) by
providing a guarantee to KCPL (acting as agent
for all the Owners) of all the
Owner’s payment and performance obligations as an Owner
of an undivided
ownership interest in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, in form and substance
satisfactory to KCPL, in KCPL’s sole discretion, and issued by an entity having
a senior unsecured long-term debt rating of not
less than BBB by S&P and A3
by Moody’s and an ability, as supported by financial projections
for a term of
at least five years and, at the request of KCPL,
by an evaluation performed by
S&P pursuant to its Ratings Evaluation Service or
by Moody’s pursuant to its
equivalent product (if available), to maintain
such a rating; or
(d) by
providing an irrevocable letter of credit to KCPL,
to be held and utilized
exclusively by KCPL as agent for and on behalf
of the Owners (subject to the
relevant Owner’s right to substitute letters of credit with subsequent
irrevocable letters of credit having more favorable
terms to the Owner, such as
improved collateral requirements or terms that
reflect improvements in the
entity’s financial health) supporting the Owner’s payment obligations, in form
and substance satisfactory to KCPL, in its sole
and reasonable discretion;
provided, any letter of credit provided pursuant
to this provision will expire
on the date on which such Owner obtains a senior
unsecured long-term debt rating
of not less than Baa3 and BBB- from Moody’s and S&P, respectively. The face
value of the letter of credit obtained for KCPL’s benefit hereunder will at all
times during the construction period be equal to
the greater of (i) fifty
percent (50%) of the Owner’s ratable share of the construction costs of
Unit 2 over the remaining construction period or (ii)
one hundred percent
(100%) of the Owner’s ratable share of the construction costs of Unit 2
projected to be incurred over the next succeeding
nine quarters of the
construction period (or, if fewer than nine quarters
remain in the construction
period, such fewer quarters), in each case, as
calculated quarterly in
accordance with the construction budget. Any letter
of credit obtained under
this provision shall be issued by a financial institution
having a senior
unsecured long-term debt rating of not less than
A- by S&P and A2 by
Xxxxx’x. The terms of the letter of credit shall provide
for the release to KCPL
of up to the entire face value of the letter of
credit upon default by the Owner
under this Agreement; or
(e) by
obtaining, within sixty (60) days of the effective
date of this Agreement, two
of three indicative project credit ratings of not
lower than BBB- as determined
by S&P, Baa3 as determined by Xxxxx’x, and BBB- as determined by Fitch
Ratings, and thereafter, by issuing electric system
utility revenue bonds that
receive two of three investment grade ratings of
not less than BBB- as
determined by S&P, Baa3 as determined by Xxxxx’x, or BBB- by Fitch Ratings;
or
(f) by
providing some alternate method of satisfying Section
8.1 that
KCPL approves in its reasonable discretion.
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ARTICLE
IX
Taxes
and Insurance
9.1 Taxes;
Election
Out of Partnership Treatment.
(a) The
Owners agree that they intend that the arrangements provided
for in this
Agreement and any other ancillary agreements entered into in
connection herewith
(collectively, the “Arrangements”)
be
excluded from the application of Subchapter K of Chapter 1
of Subtitle A of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”).
Any
allocation under this Agreement of general liabilities, expenses,
costs, charges
or reserves of Unit 2 that are not readily identifiable as belonging to any
particular Owner shall not represent a joining together of
the Owners to pool
capital for the purposes of carrying on a trade or business
or making common
investments and sharing in profits and losses therefrom. In
this regard, the
Owners do not intend to create any joint venture, partnership,
association
taxable as a corporation, or other entity for the conduct of
any business for
profit. The Owners authorize KCPL to prepare and file a return
satisfying the
requirements of United States Treasury Regulations Section
1.761-2(b)(2) and on
which an election for the Arrangements to be excluded from
the provisions of
Subchapter K is set forth. Each Owner agrees that it shall
(i) take no action
which would prevent the effectiveness of such election and
(ii) report its
respective share of the items of income, deduction and credit
arising from the
Arrangements for federal income tax purposes in a manner consistent
with the
exclusion of such arrangements from Subchapter K. Each Owner
authorizes KCPL to
take such steps as may reasonably be required to exclude the
Arrangements from
treatment as a partnership or corporation for state or local
income or franchise
tax purposes and the Owners agree that they shall provide such
assistance and
cooperation in relation thereto as may reasonably be requested.
Where the
Arrangements are not eligible for a complete exclusion from
partnership
treatment for federal or state income or franchise tax purposes,
the Owners
agree that they intend that the Arrangements be excluded from
partnership
treatment to the greatest extent possible and authorize KCPL
to take such steps
as may be reasonably necessary to secure such exclusion.
(b) To
the
extent possible, KCPL and the other Owners shall each separately
report
and pay
for all real property, franchise, business, or other taxes
and fees, if
applicable to said party, arising out of the acquisition, construction,
operation, disposition and co-ownership of Unit 2; provided, however, that
to the extent that such taxes, fees, payroll taxes, sales taxes
and/or use taxes
may be levied on or assessed against Xxxx 0, or its operation, or KCPL and
other Owners in such a manner as to make impossible the carrying
out of the
foregoing provisions of this Section, then such taxes, fees,
and, payroll taxes,
sales taxes and/or use taxes shall be paid by KCPL, and Owners
shall immediately
reimburse KCPL for their proportionate share of such payment.
Ad valorem taxes
on the Existing Common Facilities for the year in
which
the Reciprocal Conveyance Date occurs
shall be
prorated between KCPL and the other Owners based upon their
Common Facilities
Ownership Shares. Owners shall be responsible for all sales
and transfer taxes
and recording fees incurred, if any, in connection with the
conveyance to Owners
of such undivided interests in Unit 2 and Existing Common Facilities,
pursuant to this Agreement.
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9.2 Insurance.
(a) KCPL,
during the construction of Unit 2 and the Common Facilities Upgrades, shall
maintain or cause to be maintained Builder’s Risk insurance in an amount and
including such risks as is consistent with Good Utility Practice.
KCPL shall
evaluate an owner controlled insurance program (“OCIP”)
and
may adopt an OCIP provided 1) the coverages are equal to
or broader than those
available under a contractor provided insurance program and/or
2) it is
economical.
All
deductibles payable under any program of insurance, together
with any
self-insured retention, shall be borne by the Owners in proportion
to their
respective Ownership Shares or Common Facilities Ownership
Shares, as
applicable.
(b) For
non-OCIP insurance coverages, and/or for the insurance coverages
obtained from a
contractor-provided insurance program, KCPL shall also reasonably
satisfy itself
and Owners that all contractors and subcontractors have minimum
insurance
coverages and limits with carriers approved by KCPL, and
with a rating of not
less than A- as determined by A.M. Best Company. The aggregate
costs of all
insurance procured pursuant to this Section shall be considered
a Cost of
Construction of Unit 2 and as such, shall be apportioned among the Owners
in proportion to their Ownership Shares. KCPL will advise
the other Owners of
the type and coverages of insurance procured and, advise
any Owner and/or the
Management Committee of any changes in such insurance.
(c) Owners,
through the Management Committee, have the right to review
and comment on KCPL’s
safety program for construction of Unit 2.
(d) With
respect to the period after the In-Service
Operation Date, the Operator shall obtain insurance for the
Iatan Unit 2
Facility and the Common Facilities in an amount, and with
coverages, approved by
the Management Committee. Each Owner shall pay its proportionate
Ownership Share
or Common Facilities Ownership Share, as applicable, of the
insurance premiums
for the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, for the Common Facilities, and all other
costs associated with insuring said facilities, unless otherwise
agreed to by
the Owners.
(e) During
the construction of Unit 2 and with respect to the period after In-Service
Operation Date each Owner may supplement the insurance coverage
maintained by
KCPL at its own expense.
(f) Each
Owner and the Rural Utilities Service shall be a named as
insureds (as their
interests may appear) under the insurance policies, with
subrogation rights
waived.
(g) The
Operator, subject to confidentiality provisions it may require
in its reasonable
discretion and Article XVII, shall provide copies of insurance
policies
applicable to Unit 2 to Owners upon request.
(h) Upon
receipt of notice of premium payments due for any insurance
coverage, the
Operator shall send a copy thereof to each Owner, which shall
pay its share of
the premium due in accordance with the applicable Cash Flow
Memorandum.
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ARTICLE
X
Partition;
Encumbrance; Transfer
10.1 Partition.
The Owners and their successors and assigns hereby waive
their respective rights
with respect to the partition of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, the Common
Facilities, and any portion thereof for a period of time
ending with the
abandonment of the use thereof for the generation, transmission
or distribution
of electricity. No Owner shall have the power or right
to take or resort to any
action (including, without limitation, any court proceeding
at law or in equity)
for the purpose of or which might result in a partition
of the Iatan Unit 2
Facility, the Common Facilities, or any portion thereof.
Each Owner, for itself
and its successors and assigns, hereby releases all partition
rights in respect
thereof, whether now existing or hereafter accruing, whether
under common law or
statute, and whether in kind or otherwise, and each Owner
shall from time to
time, upon written request by any other Owner, execute
and deliver such further
instruments as may be necessary or appropriate to confirm
the foregoing waiver
and release of partition rights.
10.2 Encumbrance.
(a) Each
Owner and its successors and assigns of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, the
Common Facilities or any portion thereof shall have the
right to and may
encumber its Ownership Share and its Common Facilities
Ownership Share, or any
portion thereof, (subject to the provisions of this Ownership
Agreement) by any
deed of trust, mortgage indenture or other security agreement,
whether now
existing or hereafter created as security for its present
or future bonds or
other obligations or securities, without the prior consent
of any other Owner,
and any trustee or secured party thereunder, when acting
pursuant to the
provisions thereof, shall have the benefit of, and may
require and enforce
performance of, the covenants and obligations herein and
may exercise all rights
and powers of such Owner under this Agreement as the same
may then be in effect;
provided, however, that nothing herein shall be construed
to change, abrogate or
limit in any way any rights and/or protections available
to any of the Owners
pursuant to the Bankruptcy Code, including, but not limited
to 11 U.S.C. §
363(h) therein, or Mo. Rev. Stat. § 393.105.
(b) Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any provision of any other of the Agreements,
KEPCO shall have
the right to and may encumber in favor of the United States
of America, acting
through the Administrator of the Rural Utilities Service
(“RUS”),
and
its other lenders, by any deed of trust, mortgage indenture
or other security
agreement, whether now existing or hereafter created as
security for its present
or future bonds or other obligations or securities, its
Ownership Share and its
Common Facilities Ownership Share, or any portion thereof,
and its interests in
the Agreements, without the prior consent of any other
Owner, and any trustee or
secured party under any such security agreement (a “Secured
Party”),
when
acting pursuant to the provisions thereof, (i) shall have
the benefit of, and
may require and enforce performance of, the covenants and
obligations in the
Agreements and may exercise all rights and powers of KEPCO
under the Agreements
as the same may then be in effect (provided, however, that
nothing herein shall
be construed to change, abrogate or limit in any way any
rights and/or
protections available to any of the Owners pursuant to
the Bankruptcy Code,
including, but not limited to 11 U.S.C. § 363(h) therein, or Mo. Rev. Stat. §
393.105), and (ii) without the approval
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of
any
Owner, may cause such encumbered Ownership Share, Common
Facilities Ownership
Share and interests in the Agreements to be sold, assigned
or otherwise
transferred pursuant to the exercise of its remedies under
such security
agreement or in connection with a settlement of a debt secured
by such security
agreement. Any transfer pursuant to clause (ii) of the immediately
preceding
sentence shall be made subject to (A) the provisions of Section
10.4 (except in
the event that such Secured Party has complied with the provisions
of Section
10.2(c), in which case the provisions of Section 10.4 shall
not apply to such
transfer if such transfer is consummated within twelve (12)
months of the
applicable Lapse Date), and (B) all of the other benefits
and burdens of the
covenants and obligations applicable thereto as provided
in the Agreements. Any
such transferee shall assume and agree, in writing, delivered
to the other
Owners, to perform the provisions of the Agreements, and
at such point shall be
deemed an Owner, an “Assignee,” “Unit 2 Site Lessee,” a “Nower Property
Lessee” or other appropriate party under the Agreements.
(c) Any
transfer by a Secured Party pursuant to clause (ii) of the
first sentence of
Section 10.2(b) shall be made subject to the provisions of
Section 10.4, unless
the Secured Party shall have offered (or caused KEPCO to
offer)
to sell, subject to regulatory approval, its Ownership Share
and its Common
Facilities Ownership Share and its interests in the Agreements
(collectively,
the “Transferable
Interests”)
first
to KCPL and then to the other Owners at the Appraised Value
in compliance with
the provisions of this Section 10.2(c). Should KCPL elect
to purchase the entire
Transferable Interests (a “KCPL
Acquisition Election”)
available, the other Owners shall have no right to purchase
such available
Transferable Interests. Should KCPL elect not to acquire
all of the Transferable
Interests within fifteen (15) days following receipt of the
final calculation of
the Appraised Value, the other Owners may, subject to regulatory
approval, elect
by written notice to KCPL within seven (7) days following
the end of such
fifteen (15) day period to acquire the remaining
Transferable Interests in
proportion to their respective Ownership Shares at the Appraised
Value (each, an
“Other
Owner Acquisition Election”).
To
the extent that Transferable Interests remain after the initial
round of KCPL
Acquisition Elections and Other Owner Acquisition Elections,
KCPL and the other
Owners shall have the right to make subsequent KCPL Acquisition
Elections and
Other Owner Acquisition Elections for any remaining Transferable
Interests (with
KCPL’s right to make KCPL Acquisition Elections superseding the
other Owners’
rights to make Other Owner Acquisition Elections). Succeeding
rounds of KCPL
Acquisition Elections and Other Owner Acquisition Elections
may continue until
no such Transferable Interests remain; provided, that all
KCPL
Acquisition Elections and Other Owner Acquisition Elections
under this Section
10.2(c) shall be completed within forty-five (45) days following
KCPL’s receipt
of the final calculation of the Appraised Value (such forty-fifth
day, the
“Lapse
Date”).
In
the event that by the Lapse Date not all of the Transferable
Interests are
elected to be acquired by KCPL or the other Owners, then
none of the
Transferable Interests shall be acquired by KCPL or the other
Owners under this
Section 10.2(c), and the Secured Party may then transfer
or cause to be
transferred the Transferable Interests pursuant to clause
(ii) of the first
sentence of Section 10.2(b) free of the requirements of Section
10.4, if such
transfer is consummated within twelve (12) months of the
Lapse Date. If all of
the Transferable Interests are to be acquired by KCPL and
the other Owners
pursuant to this Section 10.2(c), KEPCO (or the Secured Party,
as applicable),
KCPL and the other Owners, as applicable, shall diligently
work to complete the
purchase of the Transferable Interests on arm’s length commercially reasonable
terms, and the relevant Owners shall pay their respective
shares
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of
the
Appraised Value in immediately available funds directly to
the Secured Party at
the completion of such purchase.
For
purposes of this Section 10.2(c), “Appraised
Value”
shall
mean the value of the Transferable Interest determined as follows:
(1) Each
of
the Secured Party and KCPL shall appoint an appraiser within
fifteen (15) days
following the date that the Secured Party gives written notice
to KCPL of the
Secured Party’s intent to transfer or cause to be transferred the Transferable
Interests pursuant to clause (ii) of the first sentence of
Section 10.2(b) free
of the requirements of Section 10.4 (such fifteenth day, the
“Trigger
Date”).
(2) The
Secured Party
and KCPL
shall jointly appoint a third appraiser from a list of four
appraisers, which
list shall be comprised of two appraisers proposed by the appraiser
appointed by
the Secured Party and two appraisers proposed by the appraiser
appointed by
KCPL. Such proposals shall be submitted by the first two appraisers
within ten
(10) days of the date on which the second such appraiser is
appointed. If the
Secured Party and KCPL are unable to agree on such jointly
appointed appraiser
within ten (10) days of receipt of the list of four proposed
appraisers, each of
the Secured Party and KCPL may strike one proposed appraiser
from the list of
four and names of the remaining two proposed appraisers shall
be submitted to
the senior officer resident in the American Arbitration Association
office in
St. Louis, Missouri (or such successor regional office thereof
as shall serve
the State of Missouri) who shall, or shall appoint a person
to, choose one
appraiser from the remaining two proposed appraisers. If the
Secured Party or
KCPL refuses or is unable to participate in the process of
appointing appraisers
as described above, the Appraised Value shall be determined
by a single
independent appraiser appointed by the party that is participating
in the
valuation process.
(3) The
three
appraisers selected as provided above shall be instructed to
determine the fair
market value for the Transferable Interests within sixty (60)
days following the
selection of the third appraiser by using the discounted cash
flow method of
valuation.
(4) The
appraisers shall not be required to submit detailed appraisals
but each shall be
required to submit a single numerical value for the Transferable
Interests. If
the highest or lowest of the three values varies from the arithmetic
mean of the
other two values by more than 10% of such arithmetic mean,
then the highest or
lowest (or both, if both the highest and lowest vary from the
arithmetic mean of
the other two values by more than 10% of the mean of the other
two values) shall
be discarded and the Appraised Value shall be the arithmetic
mean of the
remaining two values (or the one remaining value if only one
remains). If none
of the values is discarded pursuant to the preceding sentence,
then the
Appraised Value shall be the arithmetic mean of all three values.
The Appraised
Value determined pursuant to the foregoing procedure shall
be final and binding
on the parties.
(5) Each
appraiser appointed or proposed hereunder must be an appraiser,
accountant,
investment banker, certified financial analyst (with the professional
designation “CFA”) or commercial banker in each case experienced in the
valuation of industrial assets. Any dispute regarding the qualification
of any
appraiser proposed or appointed hereunder shall be resolved
by arbitration
before the appraisal process proceeds.
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(6) Each of KCPL and KEPCO shall bear the cost of the appraiser that it appoints (or is appointed on its behalf); provided, that if KCPL does not purchase the Transferable Interests the cost of the appraiser appointed by KCPL shall be borne by the Owners that are acquiring Transferable Interests pro rata in proportion to their Ownership Shares. KEPCO and the Owners acquiring Transferable Interests shall all bear all other costs of the appraisal (including the cost of the third appraiser) in proportion to their Ownership Shares.
10.3 Transfer.
No Owner shall have the power or the right, without the prior
written consent of
all other Owners, which
consent shall not be unreasonably delayed or withheld, to
sell,
transfer or assign any right, title or interest in, or create
any lien or
encumbrance on, all or any part of the facilities and property
represented by
its Ownership Share therein, except that no consent shall
be required for an
Owner (a) to encumber or transfer such Ownership Share, Common
Facilities
Ownership Share and interests in the Agreements as provided
in Section 10.2, or
(b) to transfer such Ownership Share to another corporation
or other entity
(whether or not affiliated with such Owner), together with
all or substantially
all of its other utility property, whether by sale or pursuant
to or as a result
of a merger, consolidation, liquidation or corporate reorganization,
provided
that such corporation or other entity by written agreement
or by operation of
law assumes the obligations hereunder of the Owner transferring
such Ownership
Share, or (c) to transfer such Ownership Share or any portion
thereof pursuant
to the provisions of Section 10.4.
10.4 Right
of First Refusal.
(a) Except
with respect to transfers permitted without
the consent of any party under
Section
10.2 or
10.3,
should
any Owner desire to sell, transfer, assign, convey or otherwise
dispose of all
or any part of its Ownership Share (the “Transfer
Share”)
to any
other entity or agency whatsoever including any other Owner
(the “Proposed
Transferee”),
the
other Owners (the “Remaining
Owners”)
shall
have rights of first refusal, as provided in this Section
10.4, to purchase such
Transfer Share, and such Owner shall have neither the power
nor the right to
dispose of such Transfer Share except as follows:
(b) Any
Owner
desiring to dispose of its Transfer Share shall first serve
a written Notice of
Intent to Transfer upon the Remaining Owners. Such Notice
shall contain the
approximate proposed date of disposition of such Transfer
Share, the terms and
conditions of the disposition to the Proposed Transferees,
and the terms and
conditions under which such Owner would sell such Transfer
Share to the
Remaining Owners (including, without limitation, the right
to purchase for
cash), which shall be at least as favorable to the Remaining
Owners as the terms
and conditions offered by the Proposed Transferee. The Owner
desiring to dispose
of its Transfer Share shall also provide the Remaining Owners
with a copy of any
bona fide offer, which the departing Owner desires to accept.
The terms and
conditions of any such written offer shall be subject to
the confidentiality
provisions of Article XVII.
(c) Each
Remaining Owner desiring to purchase all or any portion of
such Transfer Share
shall signify such desire by serving written Notice of Intent
to Purchase upon
the Owner desiring to dispose of such Transfer Share and
the other Remaining
Owners within ninety (90) days after receipt of Notice of
Intent to Transfer
under Section
10.4(b).
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(d) If the Remaining Owners signify their intention under Section 10.4(c) to purchase in the aggregate more than the entire Transfer Share, then each such Remaining Owner shall have the right to purchase (i) the lesser of its requested amount or a portion of the Transfer Share equal to the ratio of its Ownership Share to aggregate Ownership Shares of the Remaining Owners who have served a Notice of Intent to Purchase under Section 10.4(c), plus (ii) additional shares to the extent available after (i), such that its total acquired amount does not exceed its original request.
(e) If
in
their Notices of Intent to Purchase served under Section
10.4(c)
the Remaining Owners should signify an intention to purchase
less than the
entire Transfer Share, the Remaining Owners shall have an
additional sixty (60)
days after receipt of the last Notice of Intent to Purchase
under Section
10.4(c)
to signify their intention to purchase the remaining portion
of the Transfer
Share.
(f) If
and
when intention to purchase all
or a
portion of the Transfer
Share has been signified by written Notices of Intent to
Purchase from the
Remaining Owners, disposal of such Transfer Share shall be
effected by the Owner
thereof to the Remaining Owners in accordance with their
respective Notices of
Intent to Purchase, subject to all required governmental
regulatory approvals
thereof, and release of any liens imposed thereon by or through
the Owner
thereof.
(g) If,
after
the 60-day period specified in Section 10.4(e), the Remaining
Owners still have
not provided written notice of their intent to
purchase all
of the
Transfer Share, the Owner thereof shall be free to dispose
of the
remaining portion (i.e.,
that
portion which the Remaining Owners have not signified their
intention to
purchase) of such
Transfer Share to the Proposed Transferee upon the terms
and conditions stated
in its bona fide written offer.
(h) Any
disposition of a Transfer Share hereunder, whether to any
Remaining Owner or
Owners or to any Proposed Transferee, shall be made subject
to all of the
benefits and burdens of the covenants and obligations applicable
thereto as
provided in this Agreement. Any such Proposed Transferee
shall, upon receipt of
such Transfer Share, assume and agree, in writing, delivered
to the other
Owners, to perform the provisions of this Agreement, and
at such point shall be
deemed an Owner under this Agreement.
10.5 Restrictions
on Transfer of KCPL’s Obligation as Operator.
Notwithstanding anything in this Article X, KCPL shall not
transfer or assign
its obligations as Operator, except (a) as provided for in
Section
5.3(b),
or (b) in connection with a transfer of its entire Ownership
Share subject to
the restrictions and the consent requirement set forth in
Section
10.3.
10.6 Required
Transfer of Common Facilities and Interest in Real Property.
The Transfer Share shall include an appropriately allocable
share of the
transferring Owner’s Common Facilities Ownership Share and the transferring
Owner’s interest in any real property at the Iatan Station Site.
10.7 Environmental
Control Financing.
Insofar as it may be required for the financing of environmental
control or
other facilities through the Environmental Improvement and
Energy Resources
Authority of the State of Missouri, pursuant to §§ 260.005 through 260.125,
RSMo, as
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amended,
each of the Owners may individually sell, convey or grant
leasehold estates in
its undivided interest in such facilities and non-exclusive,
appurtenant
licenses, easements and rights-of-way over, across, through
and under the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility for the purposes of locating and maintaining
such
facilities on the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and providing such rights of access
to such facilities as may be necessary for their inspection
during the term of
any such leasehold estate; provided, however, that no such
sale, conveyance,
leasehold, license, easement or right-of-way shall (i)
grant or purport to grant
any right to operate, remove and/or partition or cause
any partition to occur
with respect to any of the machinery, equipment, buildings,
structures or
facilities constituting a part of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility or (ii)
unreasonably interfere with or materially impair the use
of any then existing
facilities located on Iatan Station Site; further provided,
however, that
nothing herein shall be construed to change, abrogate or
limit in any way any
rights and/or protections available to any of the Owners
pursuant to the United
States Bankruptcy Code, including, but not limited to 11
U.S.C. § 363(h)
therein, or Mo. Rev. Stat. § 393.105.
ARTICLE
XI
Covenants
and
Obligations
11.1 Equitable
Servitudes.
The respective covenants and obligations of the Owners
under this Agreement are
intended to be in the nature of equitable servitudes (not
liens) which shall run
with the respective rights, titles and interests of their
Ownership Shares and
Common Facilities Ownership Shares and be for the benefit
of and be binding upon
any and all persons whomsoever having or claiming any right,
title or interest
in or to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities or any portion
thereof by, from, through or under the Owners, or their
successors or
assigns.
11.2 Independent
Covenants and Obligations.
As between and among the Owners, the covenants and obligations
contained in this
Ownership Agreement are to be deemed to be independent
covenants, not dependent
covenants, and the obligation of any Owner to keep and
perform all of the
covenants and obligations assumed by or imposed upon it
hereunder is not
conditioned upon the performance by any other Owner of
all or any of the
covenants and obligations to be kept and performed by it.
11.3 Several
Obligations.
The obligations and liabilities of the Owners are intended
to be several and not
joint or collective, and nothing herein contained shall
be construed to create
an association, joint venture, trust or partnership. Each
Owner shall be
individually responsible for the performance of its own
obligations herein
provided. No Owner shall have a right or power to bind
any other Owner without
its express written consent, except as expressly provided
in this Agreement or
in an ancillary agreement.
11.4 Risk
of Loss; Liability.
All risk, loss and damage arising out of the ownership,
construction, operation
or maintenance of any portion of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common
Facilities, shall be borne by the Owners thereof in proportion
to their
Ownership Shares or Common Facilities Ownership Share,
as applicable, all or
portions of which shall be insured by the Operator as set
forth in Section
9.2. If
any Owner, by reason of joint liability, shall be called
upon to make any
payment or incur any obligation in excess of its proportionate
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Ownership
Share or
Common
Facilities Ownership Share, as applicable, then
the
other Owners shall have the obligation to pay and reimburse,
regardless of cost,
such Owner proportionately to the extent of any such
excess by tendering payment
upon ten (10) business days’ notice of such Owner’s payment in excess of its
Ownership Share
or
Common Facilities Ownership Share, as applicable.
Nothing
contained herein shall result in any Unit 1 owner being liable to any
Owners for any loss or damage resulting from the ownership,
construction,
operation or maintenance of any portion of Xxxx 0, and nothing contained
herein shall result in any Owner being liable to any
Unit 1 owner for any
loss or damage resulting from the ownership, construction,
operation or
maintenance of any portion of Unit 2.
11.5 Indemnity.
(a) Subject
to Section
11.6(a)
and (b), and to the maximum extent permitted by law,
each Owner hereby agrees to
indemnify, defend and hold harmless each other Owner
(an “Indemnified
Owner”)
against, and agrees to hold each Indemnified Owner harmless
from any claims,
damages, liabilities, liens, losses or other obligations
whatsoever incurred or
suffered by an Indemnified Owner (together with reasonable
costs and expenses,
including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel
relating thereto)
to
the
extent arising
out of: (a) the failure of the Owner to satisfy, discharge
or pay any liability
owed by it hereunder, or (b) any misrepresentation or
material breach of
warranty by the Owner in this Agreement or any material
breach of a covenant or
agreement made or to be performed by the Owner pursuant
to this
Agreement.
(b) To
the
maximum extent permitted by law, each other Owner hereby
agrees to indemnify
KCPL (whether acting in its capacity as Operator or otherwise)
against, and
agrees to hold KCPL harmless in proportion to such Owner’s Ownership Share or
Common Facilities Ownership Share, as applicable, from
any claims, damages,
liabilities, liens, losses or other obligations whatsoever
incurred or suffered
by KCPL (together with reasonable costs and expenses,
including reasonable fees
and disbursements of counsel relating thereto) to the
extent arising out of
KCPL’s (or Operator’s) planning, design, construction and operation of
Unit 2, except to the extent of any losses shown to be the
result of KCPL’s
(or the Operator’s) gross negligence or willful misconduct.
11.6 Exculpation.
(a) Anything
to the contrary herein notwithstanding, KCPL (whether
acting individually or in
its capacity as Operator) shall not have any liability
to any other Owner for
any loss, cost, damage or expense incurred by such Owner
except to the extent
determined to have resulted from the gross negligence
or willful misconduct of
KCPL (or Operator).
(b) No
Owner
shall be liable hereunder for consequential, special
or exemplary damages,
regardless of whether such damages were or are reasonably
foreseeable.
11.7 Equal
Opportunity.
During the performance of this Agreement, Operator agrees
as
follows:
(a) Operator
shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant
for employment because
of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Operator
shall
take
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affirmative
action to ensure that applicants, and employees are
treated without regard to
their race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
Such action shall include,
but not be limited to the following: employment, upgrading,
demotion or
transfer; recruitment or recruitment advertising; layoff
or termination; rates
of pay or other forms of compensation; and selection
for training, including
apprenticeship. Operator agrees to post in conspicuous
places, available to
employees and applicants for employment, notices to
be provided setting forth
the provisions of this nondiscrimination clause.
(b) Operator
shall, in all solicitations or advertisements for employees
placed by or on
behalf of Operator, state that all qualified applicants
shall receive
consideration for employment without regard to race,
color, religion, sex or
national origin.
(c) Operator
shall send to each labor union or representative of
workers with which it has a
collective bargaining agreement or other contract or
understanding, a notice to
be provided advising the said labor union or workers’ representative of
Operator’s commitments under this Article, and shall post copies
of the notice
in conspicuous places available to employees and applicants
for
employment.
(d) Operator
shall comply with all provisions of Executive Order
11246 of September 24, 1965,
and of the rules, regulations and relevant orders of
the Secretary of
Labor.
(e) Operator
shall furnish all information and reports required
by Executive Order 11246 of
September 24, 1965, and by the rules, regulations and
orders of the Secretary of
Labor, or pursuant thereto, and shall permit access
to his books, records and
accounts by the administering agency and the Secretary
of Labor for purposes of
investigation to ascertain compliance with such rules,
regulations and
orders.
11.8 Buy
American.
In the performance of this Agreement, KCPL shall use
Commercially Reasonable
Efforts to use or furnish or cause to be used or furnished
no unmanufactured
articles, materials and supplies which have not been
mined or produced in the
United States or any eligible country, and no manufactured
articles, materials
and supplies which have not been manufactured in the
United States or any
eligible country substantially all from articles, materials
and supplies mined,
produced or manufactured, as the case may be, in the
United States or any
eligible country (except to the extent that compliance
with the second paragraph
of the Rural Electrification Act of 1938, being Title
IV of the Work Relief and
Public Works Appropriation Act of 1938 (Public Resolution
No. 122,
75th
Congress, approved June 21, 1938) has been waived by
the Administrator of RUS),
the cost of which in the aggregate exceeds (i) 100%
minus the Ownership Share of
KEPCO of (ii) the aggregate of the cost of all such
articles, materials and
supplies used or furnished in connection with the construction
of the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and the related Common Facilities Upgrades.
For purposes of
this Section, an “eligible country” is any country that applies with respect to
the United States an agreement ensuring reciprocal
access for United States
products and services and United States suppliers to
the markets of that
country, as determined by the United States Trade Representative.
KCPL agrees to
provide KEPCO such information, documents, and certificates
with respect to
articles, materials or supplies used in connection
with the Iatan Unit 2
Facility as KEPCO may reasonably request from time
to time.
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ARTICLE
XII
Arbitration
12.1 Controversies.
Any controversy between or among Owners and/or the
Operator arising out of or
relating to this Agreement, or any breach hereof or
default hereunder, shall be
submitted to binding arbitration upon the request of
any Owner in the manner
provided herein; provided, however, that no Owner shall
seek to arbitrate a
controversy between or among the Owners without the
Owner’s most senior
executive first attempting in good faith to resolve
the dispute with the most
senior executive(s) of the other Owner(s) involved
in the dispute.
Such
executives shall decide, within ten (10) days of a
written notice of controversy
specifically referring to this Section 12.1, the maximum
period during which
they will attempt to resolve the dispute before any
Owners or the Operator may
serve a Notice to Arbitrate as provided in Section
12.2. If such executives fail
for any reason to agree upon a maximum period during
which they will attempt to
resolve the controversy, then the maximum period shall
end forty-five (45) days
after the written notice of controversy specifically
referring to this Section
12.1.
12.2 Notice
to
Arbitrate.
The Owner submitting a request for arbitration shall
serve a written notice (a
“Notice to Arbitrate”) upon all
Owners including the
other
Owner or Owners against which a remedy or determination
is sought, setting forth
in detail the matter or matters to be arbitrated, including
a statement of the
facts or circumstances giving rise to such controversy
and such Owner’s
contention with respect to the correct determination
thereof.
12.3 Selection
of Arbitrator and Venue.
If the Owners directly involved in such controversy
are unable to agree upon and
appoint, within twenty (20) days of the date of service
of the Notice to
Arbitrate, three persons to act as arbitrators, then
the arbitrators shall be
selected by the American Arbitration Association from
its then current list of
neutrals. The venue for any arbitration under this
Agreement shall be Kansas
City, Missouri.
12.4 Scope
of Arbitration.
Any arbitrators serving hereunder shall give full force
and effect to all
provisions of this Agreement and any applicable ancillary
agreement as may be
involved, shall hear evidence submitted by the respective
Owners, and may call
for additional information, which additional information
shall be furnished by
the Owner(s) having such information. Consistent with
the expedited nature of
arbitration, each party will, upon the written request
of the other party,
promptly provide the other with copies of documents
on which the producing party
may rely in support of or in opposition to any claim
or defense. Any dispute
regarding discovery, or the relevance or scope thereof,
shall be resolved by the
arbitrators, whose findings shall be conclusive. All
discovery shall be
completed within forty-five (45) days following the
appointment of the
arbitrators, unless the arbitrators determine in their
discretion that
additional time is warranted, but not to exceed ninety
(90) additional days. All
objections to discovery are reserved for the arbitration
hearing except for
objections based on privilege, work product and proprietary
or confidential
information.
12.5 Findings
and Award.
All decisions concerning the arbitration, including
the ultimate findings, shall
be made by majority vote of the three arbitrators.
The award shall be made
within six (6) months of the filing of the Notice to
Arbitrate (or such shorter
period as the parties may agree at the commencement
of the arbitration), and the
arbitrators shall agree to
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comply
with this schedule before accepting appointment;
provided, however, that this
time limit may be extended by agreement of the parties
or by the arbitrators if
necessary. The arbitrators will have no authority
to provide injunctive relief
(except that the arbitrators may order the disclosure
of documents which have
been improperly withheld from a Covered Owner, subject
to strict confidentiality
to protect the disclosing party's right to retain
such information as
confidential and proprietary); nor shall the arbitrators
have the authority to
award punitive or other damages not measured by the
prevailing party’s actual
damages except as may be required by statute. The
findings and award of the
arbitrators shall be final, binding and conclusive
with respect to the matter or
matters submitted to arbitration subject to challenges
alleging fraud or gross
misconduct on the part of the arbitrators.
12.6 Costs.
The fees and expenses of the arbitrators shall be
borne equally by the Owners
directly involved in such arbitration. All other
expenses and costs of the
arbitration shall be borne by the Owner incurring
the same.
ARTICLE
XIII
Force
Majeure
13.1 Force
Majeure.
If, because of a Force Majeure, any Owner is unable
to carry out and perform any
of its obligations under this Agreement, and if such
Owner promptly gives the
other Owners written notice of such Force Majeure,
then the obligation of the
Owner giving such notice shall be suspended to the
extent made necessary by such
Force Majeure and during its continuance, provided
the Owner exercises
Commercially Reasonable Efforts to mitigate the effect
of the Force
Majeure.
ARTICLE
XIV
Accounting
and Payment Procedures
14.1 Planning
of Cash Flow Requirements.
KCPL shall project, and the Owners shall pay, the
funds required for the
construction (and
any
reconstruction following a casualty)
of the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities Upgrades in
accordance with
the Cash Flow Memorandum attached as Exhibit I-1
(the
“Construction Period Cash
Flow Memorandum”). KCPL
shall project, and the Owners shall pay, the funds
required for the operation,
maintenance and capital improvement of the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and the
Common Facilities in accordance with the Cash Flow
Memorandum attached as
Exhibit I-2 (the “Operating Period Cash Flow Memorandum”). The
Construction Period Cash Flow Memorandum shall be
updated periodically by KCPL
to reflect changes in the cash flow requirements,
modifications to the critical
path, and increases and decreases in the scope of
the Iatan 2 project. Any
variance in actual requirements from projected requirements
shall not excuse
timely payment by the Owners.
14.2 Record-Keeping;
Accounting Manual.
KCPL will develop and keep all records and perform
all accounting for the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities according to
GAAP and FERC
guidelines as prescribed in 18 C.F.R. Pt. 101. Such
accounting and record
keeping shall be performed in accordance with the
procedures set forth in the
Accounting Manual, a copy of which is attached as
Exhibit
J
(the “Accounting Manual”). Each Owner will
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be
responsible for preparing and filing its required
governmental reports. The
Accounting Manual may be amended at any time by
the unanimous written approval
of the Owners, provided that each such amendment
shall be in accordance with the
principles set forth in this Agreement.
14.3 Construction
Fund.
Funds
for the construction of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and the Common Facilities
Upgrades will be provided by the Owners and settlements
therefor will be made in
accordance with the Construction
Period Cash
Flow
Memorandum.
ARTICLE
XV
General
Provisions
15.1 Implementing
and Confirmatory Instruments.
Each Owner shall execute such instruments as may
from time to time
reasonably be requested by any other Owner to implement
the provisions of this
Agreement, including instruments of conveyance
and transfer, to confirm the
effective Ownership Shares in the facilities and
property that then constitute
the Iatan Unit 2 Facility or any portion thereof and/or the effective
Common Facilities Ownership Shares. Each additional
Owner shall sign and deliver
to each other Owner a written document assuming
its proportional obligations and
agreeing to perform the provisions of this Agreement.
15.2 Waivers.
No waiver by an Owner of its rights with respect
to a default under this
Agreement shall be effective unless all nondefaulting
Owners waive their
respective rights. Any such waiver shall not be
deemed to be a waiver with
respect to any subsequent default or matter. No
delay short of the statutory
period of limitations in asserting or imposing
any right hereunder shall be
deemed a waiver of such right.
15.3 Notices.
Any notice, demand, request or consent provided
for in this Agreement or
made in connection herewith to any Owner shall
be effective if given in writing
and delivered to such Owner by hand, by overnight
delivery service, by
first-class mail, or by facsimile (confirmed
by first-class mail, but deemed given on the date
of the facsimile) at
the
address for such Owner provided below:
Kansas
City Power & Light Company
0000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn:
General Counsel; and Vice President, Production
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Aquila,
Inc.
00
X. 0xx
Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx
Xxxx, Xxxxxxxx 00000
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Attn:
General Counsel; and Vice President, Generation
and Energy
Resources
Facsimile:
(000)
000-0000
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The
Empire District Electric Company
000
Xxxxxx Xxxxxx
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn:
Vice President, Energy Supply
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Kansas
Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.
000
XX
Xxxxxxxxx Xxxx
Xxxxxx,
Xxxxxx 00000
Attn:
General Counsel
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Missouri
Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission
0000
Xxxx
Xxx
Xxxxxxxx,
Xxxxxxxx 00000
Attn:
General Manager
Facsimile:
(000) 000-0000
Except
as
may be revised from time to time by the Owners in
accordance with this Section
15.3.
15.4 Severability.
In the event any provision hereof or the application
thereof to any person
or circumstance shall be held invalid in any final
arbitration award rendered in
accordance with Article XII or final decision by
a court having jurisdiction in
the premises, the remainder of this Agreement and
its application to persons or
circumstances other than those as to which it was
held invalid shall not be
affected thereby.
15.5 Governing
Law.
The validity, interpretation and performance of this
Agreement and each of its
provisions shall be governed by the laws of the State
of Missouri, but without
regard to said state’s conflict of law provisions.
15.6 Continued
Effect of Other Agreements.
The Iatan Unit 1 Ownership Agreement shall survive the execution
and
delivery of this Agreement and continue in full force
and effect without
modification thereof except to the extent the provisions
of this Agreement may
be in conflict or inconsistent with provisions of
the Iatan Unit 1
Ownership Agreement, in which case the provisions
of this Agreement shall
control except as specifically set forth in Section
2.4 of this
Agreement.
15.7 Amendment
to the Agreement.
This Agreement, including any and all provisions,
terms and conditions contained
herein, may only be amended or modified upon the
unanimous written
approval
of the Owners.
15.8 Agreement
Survives Departure of Owner or Owners.
In the event that one or more Owners transfer, sell
or otherwise forfeit
their Ownership Share pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, this Agreement
shall survive with respect to the remaining Owners,
and such remaining Owners
shall continue to be bound by the terms of this Agreement.
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15.9 Conflicts
between
Agreements.
In the event of any conflicts among the Agreements,
the terms of this Agreement
shall control.
15.10
Exhibits.
Any and all exhibits attached hereto, together
with any appendices or
attachments referenced therein, are incorporated
herein by reference and made a
part hereof.
ARTICLE
XVI
Term;
Termination
16.1 Effective
Date and Term.
(a) Except
as
provided in Section
16.1(b),
this Agreement shall be binding and effective as
to each signatory upon
execution hereof by all of the Owners and shall
continue in full force and
effect thereafter until terminated as provided
in Sections
16.2 and
16.3; provided, however, that the obligations hereunder
requiring regulatory or
lender approval or the release of mortgage indentures
shall not become effective
until such approval or release, as applicable,
has been obtained.
(b) With
the
exception of Articles VIII, XII and XVII and
this
Section 16.1(b) of
this
Agreement, this Agreement
and the
other Agreements
shall
not be effective as to KEPCO (and KCPL shall retain
the Ownership Share
otherwise attributable to KEPCO under Section
2.1, the
Common Facilities Ownership Share otherwise attributable
to KEPCO under
Section
2.2, and
the other rights and interests created by the Agreements
(collectively, the
“KEPCO
Attributable Ownership Rights”))
until
receipt by KEPCO of the approval of RUS to enter
into the Agreements; provided,
however, that KEPCO shall receive its rights under
the Agreements and to the
KEPCO Attributable Ownership Rights following receipt
of such RUS approval only
if KEPCO has continued to comply with all of the
financial and other obligations
required by the Agreements that would have been
applicable to KEPCO had the
Agreements been effective as to KEPCO from the
date the Agreements are effective
as to the other Owners and by complying with such
financial and other
obligations, KCPL and the other Owners agree, for
the benefit of KEPCO, (i)
prior to receipt of such RUS approval, to permit
KEPCO to receive all the
benefits of being an Owner, Assignee, a Unit 2 Site Lessee, a Nower
Property Lessee or other appropriate party under
the Agreements and (ii) upon
KEPCO’s receipt of such RUS approval, to provide KEPCO
with all rights of an
Owner, Assignee, a Unit 2 Site Lessee, a Nower Property Lessee or other
appropriate party under the Agreements and to transfer
to KEPCO the KEPCO
Attributable Ownership Rights subject to any necessary
regulatory or lender
approval and the release of any applicable mortgage
indenture; and provided
further, however, that if KEPCO does not receive
such RUS approval within
twenty-four (24) months of the execution date of
this Agreement, KCPL shall
reallocate such rights and the KEPCO Attributable
Ownership Rights to itself and
the other Owners in the manner set forth in Section
2.1(c)
(except
that KCPL may not exercise its right of rejection
under Section
2.1(c)),
and any
Owner or Owners receiving all or a portion of the
KEPCO Attributable Ownership
Rights shall promptly, and severally in proportion
to the portion of the KEPCO
Attributable Ownership Rights reallocated to such
Owner, reimburse KEPCO for all
payments made by KEPCO prior to such date with
respect to amounts described in
Section
6.4
and
elsewhere in the Agreements with
respect to the KEPCO Attributable Ownership Rights.
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16.2 Termination.
Except
as
provided in Section
16.3,
for such Affected Owner(s), this Agreement shall terminate
and be of no further
force and effect from and after the date of the earliest
to occur of the
following:
(a) the
Owners shall file of record in the Office of the Recorder
of Deeds for Platte
County, Missouri (or such other office as may then serve
such function) a duly
executed agreement terminating this Agreement and discharging
the rights, titles
and interests of the Owners in and to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility from the
benefits and burdens of the covenants and obligations
herein; provided that the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility shall have been released from the liens of
all
encumbrances contemplated by Section
10.2 and
such releases shall have been duly filed of record prior
to recording of such
termination agreement; or
(b) an
Owner
shall acquire by transfer hereunder or by operation of
law all Ownership Shares
and, as a result of the merger of such undivided percentage
interests therein,
become the sole beneficial Owner of all rights, titles
and interests in the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility; or
(c) there
has
been an abandonment of the use of the Iatan Unit 2 Facility for the
generation of electricity as evidenced by an Affidavit
of Abandonment duly
executed by the Owners, filed of record as provided in
clause (a) above, and
thereafter published in a newspaper of general circulation
in Platte County,
Missouri, with written notice thereof delivered to the
other Owners within ten
(10) days after the recording of such Affidavit, unless
another Owner of any
portion thereof denies such abandonment by an Affidavit
of Non-abandonment
similarly filed of record within sixty (60) days after
publication of such
Affidavit of Abandonment. Abandonment of the use of the
Iatan Unit 2 Facility
for the generation, transmission or distribution of electricity
shall not be
complete and deemed to occur until such time as all reclamation,
remediation or
disposition of Xxxx 0 and the improvements, including
Common Facilities
Upgrades, serving Unit 2 shall have been completed in the reasonable
discretion of the Operator under Section 16.3 of this
Agreement.
16.3 Disposition
Upon Abandonment.
In the event this Agreement is terminated by Affidavit
of Abandonment as
provided in Section
16.2(c),
the Operator shall have the right to dispose of all the
facilities and property
then included in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility (provided such facilities and
property to be disposed of are not then subject to the
lien of any encumbrance,
or such disposition is otherwise made in accordance with
the terms of any
related security agreement, contemplated in Section
10.2),
shall dispose thereof in a reasonable manner and shall
distribute the net
proceeds or apportion the costs thereof to the Owners,
or to lienholders for the
account of the Owners, in proportion to their respective
Ownership Shares;
provided, however, that if any determinable portion of
such proceeds is received
from facilities or property the cost of which was borne
by the Owners
disproportionately to their Ownership Shares, the distribution
of such proceeds
shall be adjusted accordingly; and provided, further,
that termination of this
Agreement shall not (i) discharge any Owner of any obligation
it then owes to
any other Owner as a result of any transaction occurring
prior to such
termination; or (ii) terminate the obligations of any
Owner to pay or be
responsible for its allocable share of any disposition,
remediation or
reclamation of the Unit 2 Site, the Common Facilities, or any portion of
the Iatan Station Site on which improvements which served
Unit 2 were
constructed it being the agreement of the parties that
as part of the
disposition of all of the personal property and real
property then included in
or serving the Iatan Unit 2 Facility, each Owner shall bear its
proportional cost of demolition or
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removal
of such improvements and any environmental site restoration
or remediation in
connection with closure or abandonment.
ARTICLE
XVII
Confidentiality
17.1 Confidential
Information.
Each party hereto agrees that it will keep in strict
confidence, and will
instruct, and use its reasonable best efforts to cause,
its advisors and
representatives to keep in strict confidence, all nonpublic
information obtained
from any other party hereto, including all documentation
and cost studies,
unless such information is disclosed with the prior
written consent of the party
to which it relates; provided, however, that this restriction
shall not apply to
information which (a) has at the time in question entered
the public domain
other than by reason of breach of this provision by
a party hereto; (b) is
required to be disclosed by law or by any order, rule,
or regulation (whether
valid or invalid) of any court, or governmental agency,
or authority, but only
to the extent such disclosure is so required; provided
that the party disclosing
the nonpublic information shall promptly give notice
of such disclosure to the
party from which the information was obtained and shall
cooperate with the party
from which the information was obtained in an effort
to ensure that confidential
treatment will be accorded such nonpublic information
to the extent feasible;
(c) is reasonably required or requested by any utility
regulatory agency
having
relevant
jurisdiction over the party so required or requested
to furnish the nonpublic
information; provided, that the party disclosing the
nonpublic information shall
promptly give notice of such disclosure to the party
from which the information
was obtained and shall cooperate with the party from
which the information was
obtained in an effort to ensure that confidential treatment
will be accorded
such nonpublic information to the extent feasible;
or (d) is reasonably required
to be provided to any party’s accountants, attorneys, mortgagees, lenders,
rating agencies or financial advisors in connection
with this Agreement or the
transactions contemplated hereby; provided that the
party disclosing the
nonpublic information uses its reasonable best efforts
to cause such
accountants, attorneys, mortgagees or other financial
advisors, or rating
agencies, to keep such nonpublic information in strict
confidence. Upon
termination of this Agreement, each party shall continue
to maintain the
confidentiality of all
nonpublic information obtained from any other party
or any of its affiliates,
advisors, representatives and any copies made of such
information, with the same
standard of care used in the protection of its own
confidential information.
Nothing in this Article XVII shall prevent the recording
of this Agreement
to
the
extent the Management Committee does not determine
as provided in Section 20.1
that a memorandum
of this Agreement should be recorded in lieu of the
full Iatan Unit 2 and Common
Facilities Ownership Agreement.
17.2 Limitation
on Disclosure of Documents.
Notwithstanding
any provision within this Agreement to the contrary,
the Operator and/or any
other Owner with responsibility for constructing and/or
operating Unit 2 or
any related interconnection or transmission facilities,
when providing documents
to any Owner that qualifies as a public governmental
body (“Covered Owner”), as
defined in Section 610.010(4) of the Missouri Revised
Statutes, shall, in their
reasonable and sole discretion, have the right to provide
such Covered Owner
with redactions, summaries and/or abridgements of such
documents, as necessary
to protect confidential, proprietary or trade secret
information of the other
Owners. The
purpose of this provision is to ensure confidential
and/or proprietary information relating to Xxxx 0 xxx/xx Xxxx 0 is
not
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disclosed
to the public. Nothing herein shall be interpreted to prevent
the Covered Owner
or its representatives from viewing any and all documents
available to Owners
that do not qualify as a public governmental body.
If
any
Covered Owner proposes to issue debt securities in connection
with Unit 2
(“Unit 2 Debt Securities”), it will not include any confidential or
proprietary information related to Unit 1 or Unit 2 in
any offering memorandum
or official statement with respect to Unit 2 Debt Securities.
KCPL will enter
into an agreement or agreements with such Covered Owner
or its rating
agencies, bond counsel, bond insurers
or
underwriters of such Unit 2 Debt Securities in a form satisfactory
to KCPL
pursuant to which KCPL will release to such Covered Owner
or its rating
agencies, bond counsel, bond insurers
or
underwriters updated information from time to time as specified
in such
agreement in order to permit such Covered Owner to comply
with Rule 15c2-12
adopted by the Securities and Exchange Commission under
the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934.
In
the
event a Covered Owner needs unredacted documents to prosecute
or defend against
a claim in a pending legal proceeding, any Covered Owner
agrees that 1) a
Covered Owner will notify KCPL of the documents it needs
for arbitration or
litigation, 2) KCPL will permit a Covered Owner to use
the requested documents
solely for the purpose of resolving a pending legal dispute
subject to the
agreement by KCPL and a Covered Owner that all such documents
produced in
connection with the disposition of specified claims in
the legal proceeding and
are being produced subject to obtaining a protective order
confidentiality from
disclosure to any person, firm or entity other than is
in support of or to
refute a claim in the legal proceeding, and 3) the unredacted
documents will at
all times remain KCPL documents, and (4) a Covered Owner
on behalf of itself and
its attorneys agree they shall return all copies of the
unredacted documents to
KCPL at the conclusion of the proceeding for destruction
or other disposition by
KCPL.
ARTICLE
XVIII
Private
Use Covenant
18.1 Private
Use Covenant.
If MJMEUC provides written notice to the Management Committee,
the Operator and
other Owners that any action or inaction under this Agreement
results in a
Adverse Action with respect to any MJMEUC tax-exempt debt
used to finance
MJMEUC’s Ownership Share, the Management Committee, the Operator
and the other
Owners covenant that each shall use its Commercially Reasonable
Efforts to avoid
such Adverse Action; provided, however, that the Management
Committee, the
Operator and the other Owners shall not be obligated to
avoid such action if to
do so would (i) materially impair the generation output
of or materially
increase the costs of owning and/or operating Unit 2 and/or the Common
Facilities, (ii) cause the Management Committee or any
of the other Owners to
breach or otherwise violate any undertaking, representation,
warranty or
covenant set forth in this Agreement or (iii) prevent any
of the other Owners or
Operator from exercising any right provided by this Agreement
or the Iatan
Unit 1 Ownership Agreement. Contexts in which an Adverse Action
may arise
include, without limitation, a) sale of MJMEUC’s Ownership Share other than
during a default by MJMEUC, and b) the payment of a management
fee to the
Operator. If MJMEUC obtains an opinion from counsel as
to the effect of the
Adverse Action,
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MJMEUC
agrees to provide it, at its sole expense, to the other
Owners. Further, this
Article XVIII does not apply to any actions taken or
to be taken with respect to
matters involving Unit 1 or the Additional Units.
ARTICLE
XIX
Representations
and Warranties
19.1 KCPL’s
Representations and Warranties.
KCPL hereby represents and warrants to the other Owners
as
follows:
(a) KCPL
is a
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws
of the State of Missouri, and has power and authority
to own the undivided
ownership interests in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities to
be owned by it hereunder, to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to perform
its obligations hereunder and to carry on its business
as it is now being
conducted and as it is contemplated to be conducted pursuant
to this
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to certain regulatory and lender approvals and indenture
releases, the
execution, delivery and performance by KCPL of this Agreement
have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the part
of KCPL, do not
contravene the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws of
KCPL, and do not and will
not contravene the provisions of, or constitute a material
default under, any
indenture, mortgage, security agreement, contract or
other instrument to which
KCPL is a party or by which KCPL is bound. Upon execution
of this Agreement,
KCPL shall deliver to the other Owners certified copies
of the resolutions
adopted by KCPL’s board of directors authorizing the execution, delivery
and
performance of this Agreement.
(c) KCPL
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge and as of the
date of this Agreement, there are no adverse environmental
conditions existing
on the Iatan Station Site that would materially and adversely
affect the
operation of Unit 1,
or the
construction of
Unit 2, or the Common Facilities.
(d) KCPL
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge and as of the
date of this Agreement there are no defects in Unit 1 or conditions on the
Iatan Station Site that could reasonably be expected
to materially delay or
adversely affect the construction and operation of Unit 2.
(e) KCPL
represents and warrants that as of the date of this Agreement,
except as
disclosed in writing to the other Owners, there is no
action, suit or proceeding
at law or in equity or by or before any Governmental
Authority now pending
against or affecting it or any of its properties, rights
or assets, which could
reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect
on its ability to
perform its obligations under this Agreement or any Ancillary
Agreement. KCPL
will give prompt notice to each Owner of all material
claims instituted against
it or, if KCPL has actual notice thereof, against any
other Owner relating to
the construction, ownership or operation of the Iatan
Unit 2
Facility.
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(f) KCPL
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge and as of the
date of this Agreement, the Unit 2 Facility design specifications,
construction time tables and budgets have been prepared
in good faith,
consistent with Good Utility Practice on the basis of assumptions believed to be
reasonable and that it will use Commercially Reasonable
Efforts to maintain true
and accurate design specifications, construction time
tables, and budgets
prepared by qualified experts (which may include employees
of KCPL having the
relevant expertise).
(g) KCPL
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge it has executed
or will execute and file, with all regulatory agencies
having jurisdiction, such
applications, amendments, reports and other documents
and filings as shall be
required in or in connection with the licensing and
other regulatory matters
with respect to the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities; provided,
however, that each Owner shall be responsible for obtaining
all required
approvals and authorizations relating to its participation
in the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and to its performance of this Agreement.
19.2 Aquila’s
Representations and Warranties.
Aquila hereby represents and warrants to the other
Owners as
follows:
(a) Aquila
is
a corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the
laws of the State of Delaware and has power and authority
to own the undivided
ownership interests in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities to
be owned by it hereunder, to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to perform
its obligations hereunder and to carry on its business
as it is now being
conducted and as it is contemplated to be conducted
pursuant to this
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to certain regulatory and lender approvals and indenture
releases, the
execution, delivery and performance by Aquila of this
Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
part of Aquila, do not
contravene the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws
of Aquila, and do not and
will not contravene the provisions of, or constitute
a material default under
any indenture, mortgage, security agreement, contract
or other instrument to
which Aquila is a party or by which Aquila is bound.
Upon execution of this
Agreement, Aquila shall deliver to the other Owners
certified copies of the
resolutions adopted by Aquila’s board of directors authorizing the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement.
(c) Aquila
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge and as of the
date of this Agreement, there are no adverse environmental
conditions existing
on the Iatan Station Site that would materially and
adversely affect the
continued operation of Xxxx 0, Xxxx 0, or the Common
Facilities.
(d) Aquila
represents and warrants to the best of its actual knowledge
and that as of the
date of this Agreement there are no defects in Unit 1 or conditions on the
Iatan Station Site that could reasonably be expected
to materially delay or
adversely affect the construction and operation of
the Iatan Unit 2
Facility and Common Facilities.
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19.3 Empire’s
Representations and Warranties.
Empire hereby represents and warrants to the other
Owners as
follows:
(a) Empire
is
a corporation duly organized, validly existing and
in good standing under the
laws of the State of Kansas and has power and authority
to own the undivided
ownership interests in the Iatan Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities to
be owned by it hereunder, to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to perform
its obligations hereunder and to carry on its business
as it is now being
conducted and as it is contemplated to be conducted
pursuant to this
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to certain regulatory and lender approvals and indenture
releases, the
execution, delivery and performance by Empire of
this Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action on the
part of Empire, do not
contravene the Articles of Incorporation or By-Laws
of Empire, and do not and
will not contravene the provisions of, or constitute
a material default under
any indenture, mortgage, security agreement, contract
or other instrument to
which Empire is a party or by which Empire is bound.
Upon execution of this
Agreement, Empire shall deliver to the other Owners
certified copies of the
resolutions adopted by Empire’s board of directors authorizing the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement.
(c) Empire
represents and warrants that to the best of its actual
knowledge and as of the
date of this Agreement, there are no adverse environmental
conditions existing
on the Iatan Station Site that would materially and
adversely affect the
continued operation of Xxxx 0, Xxxx 0, or the Common
Facilities.
(d) Empire
represents and warrants that to the best of its knowledge
and as of the date of
this Agreement there are no defects in Unit 1 or conditions on the Iatan
Station Site that could reasonably be expected to
materially delay or adversely
affect the construction and operation of the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and
Common Facilities.
19.4 KEPCO’s
Representations and Warranties.
KEPCO hereby represents and warrants to the other
Owners as
follows:
(a) KEPCO
is
a cooperative corporation duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing
under the laws of the State of Kansas and has power
and authority to own the
undivided ownership interests in the Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities
to be owned by it hereunder, to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to
perform its obligations hereunder and to carry on
its business as it is now
being conducted and as it is contemplated to be conducted
pursuant to this
Agreement.
(b) Subject
to certain regulatory approvals and indenture releases
expected to be obtained
in due course, the execution, delivery and performance
by KEPCO of this
Agreement have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action on the
part of KEPCO, do not contravene the Articles of
Incorporation or By-Laws of
KEPCO, and do not and will not contravene the provisions
of, or constitute a
material default under any indenture, mortgage, security
agreement, contract or
other instrument to which KEPCO is a party or by
which KEPCO is bound. Upon
execution of this Agreement, KEPCO shall deliver
to the other Owners
certified
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copies
of
the resolutions adopted by KEPCO’s board of directors authorizing the execution,
delivery and performance of this Agreement.
19.5 MJMEUC’s
Representations and Warranties.
MJMEUC hereby represents, warrants and covenants
to the other Owners as
follows:
(a) MJMEUC
is
a body public and corporate of the State of Missouri
duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of
the State of Missouri and has
power and authority to own the undivided ownership
interests in the Iatan
Unit 2 Facility and Common Facilities to be owned by
it hereunder, to
execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform
its obligations hereunder and
to carry on its business as it is now being conducted
and as it is contemplated
to be conducted pursuant to this Agreement.
(b) The
execution, delivery and performance by MJMEUC of
this Agreement have been duly
authorized by all necessary action on the part
of MJMEUC, do not contravene the
Joint Contract,
entered
into as of May 1, 1979 and amended as of February
1, 1980 and June 4, 1984,
between the Contracting Municipalities, or
By-Laws of MJMEUC, and do not and will not contravene
the provisions of, or
constitute a material default under any indenture,
mortgage, security agreement,
contract or other instrument to which MJMEUC is
a party or by which MJMEUC is
bound. Upon execution of this Agreement, MJMEUC
shall deliver to the other
Owners certified copies of the resolutions adopted
by MJMEUC’s board of
directors authorizing the execution, delivery and
performance of this
Agreement.
ARTICLE
XX
Memorandum
of Agreement
20.1 Memorandum
of Agreement.
To the extent permitted by applicable law, the
Management Committee may
determine to file a memorandum of this Agreement
rather than filing the entire
Agreement in the relevant real estate records.
The Owners will promptly execute
and deliver such a memorandum upon request of the
Operator.
ARTICLE
XXI
Cooperation
21.1 Cooperation.
Subject to the limitations contained in Section
17.2 of this Agreement, each of
the Owners shall use Commercially Reasonable Efforts
to cooperate with each
other Owner in order to assist the other Owner
in the performance of its duties,
responsibilities and obligations under this Agreement.
This duty to cooperate
shall include providing information, and executing
and delivering customary
documents, certificates, opinions and instruments
necessary for the other Owner
to perform its duties, responsibilities and obligations
under this Agreement
including obtaining financing for its share of
the Cost of
Construction.
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THIS
AGREEMENT CONTAINS A BINDING ARBITRATION PROVISION
THAT MAY BE ENFORCED BY THE
PARTIES.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused
this Agreement to be executed by
their duly authorized officers the day and year
first above
written.
KANSAS
CITY POWER AND LIGHT
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ATTEST:
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/s/
Xxxx X. English
Asst.
Corporate Secretary
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By
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Chief
Executive Officer
Date:
6/12/06
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AQUILA,
INC.
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ATTEST:
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/s/
Xxxxxxxxxxx X. Xxxxx
Corporate
Secretary
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By
/s/
Xxxxx Xxxxx
Chief
Operating Officer
Date:
5/19/2006
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THE
EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC COMPANY
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ATTEST:
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/s/
Xxxxx X. Xxxxxx
Corporate
Secretary
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By
/s/
Xxxxxxx X Xxxxxx
Chief
Executive Officer
Date:
5/19/2006
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KANSAS
ELECTRIC POWER COOPERATIVE, INC.
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ATTEST:
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/s/
J. Xxxxxxx Xxxxxx
Asst.
Corporate Secretary
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By
/s/
Xxxxxxx X. Xxxx
Executive
Vice President and
Chief
Executive Officer
Date:
5/24/2006
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59
MISSOURI
JOINT MUNICIPAL ELECTRIC UTILITY COMMISSION
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ATTEST:
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/s/
Xxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxx
Corporate
Secretary
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By
/s/
Xxxxxx Xxxxxxxxx
General
Manager and
Chief
Executive Officer
Date:
6/8/2006
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