AVISTA CORPORATION First Mortgage Bonds, 5.125% Series due 2022 Underwriting Agreement September 15, 2009Underwriting Agreement • September 23rd, 2009 • Avista Corp • Electric & other services combined • New York
Avista Corporation, a Washington corporation (the “Company”), proposes, subject to the terms and conditions stated herein, to issue and sell to the Underwriters named in Schedule I hereto (collectively, the “Underwriters”) for whom you are acting as representatives (in such capacity the “Representatives”), $250,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its First Mortgage Bonds, 5.125% Series due 2022 (the “Securities”). The Securities are to be issued as a series of bonds under the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated as of June 1, 1939, between the Company and Citibank, N.A., as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by various supplemental indentures including the Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture, to be dated as of September 1, 2009. Such Mortgage and Deed of Trust, as so amended and supplemented, and such Forty-sixth Supplemental Indenture are hereinafter called, respectively, the “Mortgage” and the “Supplemental Indenture”.
