Common Contracts

SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT

Settlement Agreement • October 10th, 2006 • South Dakota

• Contract Type
  Settlement Agreement
• Filed
  October 10th, 2006
• Jurisdiction
  South Dakota

This Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) is entered into as of October 10, 2006, by and between the South Dakota Public Utilities Commission (“SD PUC”), on the one hand, and on the other, NorthWestern Corporation and its subsidiaries NorthWestern Energy Marketing, LLC and The Clark Fork and Blackfoot, LLC (“NorthWestern”) and Babcock & Brown Infrastructure Limited and its subsidiaries BBI US Holdings Pty Ltd., BBI US Holdings II Corp., and BBI Glacier Corp. (“BBIL”) (together, NorthWestern and BBIL, the “Applicants”). The SD PUC and the Applicants are each a “Party” and together are the “Parties.”