RECORDING REQUESTED BY
AND WHEN RECORDED RETURN TO:
XXXXX X. XXXXXXX, ESQ.
XXXXXXXXX and XXXXXXX, INC.
0000 Xxxxxxx Xxxx Xxxx, 00xx Xxxxx
Xxx Xxxxxxx, Xxxxxxxxxx 00000-3271
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SECOND AMENDMENT TO GEOTHERMAL LEASE
THIS AMENDMENT TO GEOTHERMAL LEASE ("Amendment") is made and entered
into effective as of January 1, 1990, by and among MAGMA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada
corporation ("Lessor") and MAMMOTH-PACIFIC, L.P., a California limited
partnership ("Lessee"), with reference to the following facts:
A. Magma Energy, Inc., a Nevada corporation, and Xxxx Geothermal
Company, a California corporation, entered into that certain Geothermal Lease
dated August 31, 1983, and recorded in memorandum form on September 6, 1983, in
Book 389, Page 37 of Official Records of Mono County, California (the "Lease").
B. Magma Energy, Inc., has merged with and into Lessor, and Lessor is
the successor-in-interest to Magma Energy, Inc., by operation of law, as fee
owner of the real property covered by the Lease.
C. By an Assignment of Lease dated August 31, 1983, and recorded in
memorandum form on September 20, 1983, in Book 390, Page 90 of Official Records
of Mono County, California, Xxxx Geothermal Company assigned all of its right,
title and interest
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in the Lease to Mammoth-Pacific, a California general partnership.
D. The Lease was previously amended by the First Amendment to
Geothermal Lease dated April 30, 1987 between Magma Energy, Inc. and
Mammoth-Pacific, a California general partnership.
E. Pacific Geothermal Company, a California corporation, and a general
partner of Xxxxxx, subsequently succeeded to all of Mammoth-Pacific, a
California general partnership's right, title and interest in the Lease. By an
assignment dated January 29, 1990 and recorded in memorandum form on January 29,
1990 as Instrument No. 665, Official Records of Mono County, California, Pacific
Geothermal Company assigned an undivided 50% of all of its right, title and
interest in the Lease to Lessee, and the remaining undivided fifty percent (50%)
of all of its right, title and interest in the Lease in equal shares to CD
Mammoth Lakes I, Inc., a Maryland corporation and Mammoth Lakes II, Inc., a
Maryland corporation (collectively, the CD Companies); and the CD Companies in
the same assignment subsequently assigned all of such right, title and interest
in the Lease to Lessee.
F. Exhibit "A" to the Lease contains the following exception in the
description of Parcel B of the leased premises.
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EXCEPTING THEREFROM the surface of the Southwesterly three (3) acres,
more or less, occupied by a lumberyard as of the date of this Lease.
The area covered by this exception is referred to in this Amendment as the
"Excepted Acreage."
X. Xxxxxx and Lessee desire to amend the Lease to include the Excepted
Acreage in the leased premises, without, however, any warranty of title by
Xxxxxx.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the above-referenced facts, the
agreements of Lessor and Lessee contained herein, and for other good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, Lessor and Lessee agree as follows:
1. The following language is deleted from Exhibit "A" to the Lease:
EXCEPTING THEREFROM the surface of the Southwesterly three (3) acres,
more or less, occupied by a lumberyard as of the date of this Lease.
2. From and after the date of this Amendment, the Excepted Acreage
shall be part of the leased premises covered by the Lease, subject to all of the
terms and conditions of the Lease, as amended, except as provided in paragraph 3
below.
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3. Notwithstanding anything set forth in the Lease, Lessor is leasing
the Excepted Acreage to Lessee without any warranties or representations of
title whatsoever, including, without limitation, any warranty or representation
that the Excepted Acreage is free and clear of leases and tenancies by others.
EVIDENCING their agreement, Xxxxxx and Xxxxxx have executed this
Amendment as of the date first written above.
LESSOR:
MAGMA POWER COMPANY, a Nevada
corporation
By: /s/ Xxx X. Xxxxx
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Name (print): Xxx X. Xxxxx
Title: Senior Vice President
By: /s/ Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
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Name (print): Xxxxxxx X. Xxxxxxxxx
Title: Assistant Secretary
LESSEE:
MAMMOTH-PACIFIC, L.P., a California limited
partnership
By Pacific Geothermal Company, a California
corporation, its Managing General
Partner
By:
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Name (print): _________ Xxxxxx
Title: Sr. Vice Pres
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