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HomeMy WebLinkAbout80-74 5 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ~ I 23 ~ ,, 24 i 26 RESOLUTION NO. 80-.74 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF UKIAH APPROVING AMENDED MEMBER AGREEMENT FOR CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION AND FINANCING OF NCPA GEOTHE~AL GENERATING UNIT NO. 2 PROJECT BE IT RESOLVED that-the amended Member Agreement dated June 15, 1977, for construction, operation, and financing of NCPA Geothermal Generating Unit No. 2, attached hereto and made a part hereof is hereby approved and the Mayor and Clerk are authorized to execute same on behalf of the City. PASSED AND ADOPTED this 23rd day of April, ].980, by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmembers Riley, Myers, Hickey NOES: Councilmembers Snyder, Feibusch ABSENT: None ATTEST: /' City Clerk 10 11 12 13 14 t5 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 OF Rev. Rev. AMENDED AND RESTA'I'E[~ HE'FiBER A..GREEI,1ENT FOR CONSTRUCTION, OI~ERAI'ION AND FINANCING NCPA GEOTtlERMAL GENERATING UNIT //2 PROJECT · 2/4/80 2/13/80 be twee n of the This Agreement, made NortheYn California State 'of California, those of'.its cal led.."Purchas., fng that members who eXecute Particioatino as of January l, 1980, by and PoV~et Agendy','a' joint'~o'werg agency ~hereinafte~ calle'd "I~CPA,,'"and ' 'this Agrbement:, herein'after"-. "· wil~ne~seth' ..~ M6mb6 rs, ~/HEREAS, NCPA and those of its.members hated called Development called the opmen t and ated works creation of the following Participating Members: "Part'icipating Members" entered into as "NCPA Member Agreement for Participation in Fund," dated July 1, 1975, as amended, Development Fund Agreement, t-o provide planning of electric generating projects and associ- and which Development F~nd Agreement result'ed in the "Participating Percentages" amono those therein desig- an agreement Electric Power hereinafter for the devel- City of Alameda 14.994% City of Biggs 0.167% City of Gridley 0.334% City of Healdsbbrg 3.177% City of Lodi 14.560% City of Lompoc 3. 266% City of Roseville 3.177% City of Santa Clara 54.651% City of Ukiah 4.972% Plumas-Sierra R. E. C. 0.702% 100.000% lO 14 20 24 W~FREAS, pursuant to tl~e I)evelopment Fund Agreement, NCPA has entered into a "Geothermal Steam Sales A~reement" with Sheli Oil Company, dated as of June 27, 1977, here- inafter called the Shell Agreement, which provides for the supply of geothermal steam for an electric generatin'g plant to be 'known as NCPA Geothermal Generating Unit No. 2; and WHEREAS, pursuant to the Development Fund Agreement and particdlarly article lO(c) thereof, NCPA and some or all of the Participating Members entered into a further agreement with respect to the specific project to be constructed under the Shell Agreement, to prepare for the financing of the Project, · which may include the issuance of Bohds, which agreement was entitled "Member Agreement for Construction, Operation, and Fi. nancing of NCPA Geothermal Generating Unit' #2 Project" and dated as of June 15, 1977, herein called the "Member Agreement"; and · WHEREAS, such agreement provided for supplemental agree- ments to clarify the assurances and make the obligations thereof more specific, to satisfy legal requirements, and provide security for the bonds to be issued thereunder; and WHEREAS, the changes contained in this revision have been negotiated to accomplish the purposes' set .fortt~ in the next above recital; now therefore, the said Member Agreement is hereby revised .to read as follows: 1. Definitions. Terms used herein that are defined in the Development Fund Agreement have the same meaning in this Agreement as in that agreement, uhless otherwis~ specified, and, in addition' 1o 1! 12 13 14 !$ 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 26 II! (a) "Agreement" means the Member Construction, Operation, and I'-'inancing Generating Unit No. 2 Project, as amended "Bonds" or any time. (b) of credit to finance ment, Bonds corporation acting on beha a's NCPA Bonds. (c) "Bond 'Indenture" Agreement 'For . of NC'PA Geothermal from time to means bonded indebtedness, loans, letters other evidences of indebtedness issued the Project. For whether issued by If the.purposes of this Agree- NCPA or by a nonprofit of NCPA shall be treated · means any indenture or other instrument pursuant to which (i)securities having the · benefit of Section 5(b) may be issued or (ii) money, · the repayment of which is secured by Section 5(b), may be borrowed. ' (d) "Electric System" means all properties and assets, real and personal, tangible and intangible, the Purchasing Participating Member now or hereafter of existing, used or pertaining to the generation, trans- mission, transformation, distribution and sale of electric power and energy, including all additions, extensions, · expansions, improvements and · equippings thereof; provide'd, the Purchasing Participating of an asset or property, only Member's ownership interest in shall be considered to be part .. betterments thereto and however, that to the extent Member is not the sole owner the Purohasing Participating such asset or property .of' its Electric System.' '.7 10 11 . 12. 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (e) "Generating Plant" means the plant provided for in the Shell Agreement. (f) "NCPA Geothermal Generating Unit t!2 Project" or "Project" means the Generating Plant and all other NCPA works contemplated by tile Shell Agreement, or which are necessary or convenient for delivering the output of .the Generating Plant to Participating Members or others. (g) "Purchasing Participating Members" means those Participating Members 'who participate in carrying out the Shell Agreement (h) "Purchasing those percentages derived by Percentage of each Purchasing the sum of tile Participation Participating Members. (.i) "Revenues" means charges, and other moneys cipating Member from the Electric ality of fees , by signing this Agreement. Participation Percentage" means or other moneys earnings and income is the Electric derived from fees, charges of such System, (ii) the the investment charges, or other moneys derived from the sale, · furnishing, and supplying of the electric power and 'energy and other services, facilities, and commodities sold, furnished, or supplied through the facilities of Percentages of all Purchasing all income, rents, rates, 'fees, derived by the Purchasing Parti- Ownership or operation of its earnings on and income such income, rents, rates, t.o the extent that the use limited by or pursuant to · System, including, · the foregoing, (i) without limiting the gener- all income, rents, rates, dividing the Participation Participating Member by law to ~he Electric System and (iii) the proceeds derived lO 13 14 15 20 · ca te the Geo th e rrna Membe rs, Project· Participating Member direc'tly or in- ject, sary by the. Purchasing directly from the sale, lease or other disposition of a part of the Electric System as permitted hereby, but the term "Revenues" shall not include customers' deposits or any other deposits subject to refund until such de- posits have become t'he prop. erty of the Purchasing Parti- cipating Member. ! (j) "Trustee" means the trustee Indenture or, if there is no trustee, therein as "Trustee" for purposes of Purpose. The purpose electric power to be made avail'able 1 Generating Unit #2 to Purchasing and to provide a mechanism for the · under a Bond the party identified this Agreement. efforts and make authority of this Agreement is to allo- · from the NCPA Participating financing' of such Construction and Operation. NCPA will use its best to finance, construct, own, and operate the Pro- all necessary replacements, and obtain all neces- and rig'hts, and do all things necessary and Purchasing Participating ~.~embers will to that end, an'd will give any and all convenient therefor. cooperate with NCPA clarifying assurances reasonably necessary by supplemental agreements that may in the opinion of NCPA's bond counsel be to make the obligation herein more specific, to.satisfy legal re- quirements and provide security for the Bonds, including, but not limited to, covenants on the issuance of additional 10 11 12 14 16 20 22 24 26 2'/ e. indebtedness payable out of Revenues of the Electric System, if any. The Bonds shall be secured only by the Revenues of the Electric System of the Purchasing Participating Members. The Bonds may be issued by NCPA or by a nonprofi~ corporation acting on behalf of NCPA, which for the purposes of this Agree- ment are treated as NCPA Bonds. Any such nonprofit corporation may ho'ld title (fee or leasehold interest) to the Project during the period when its Bonds are outstanding, but shall then' ~. transfer ownership of the Project 'to NCPA; If Bonds are issued by a nonprofit corporation on behalf ,. of NCPA, NCPA shall transfer and assign to such nonprofit ~or- poration that portion of the paym.ents received hereunder from Purchasing Participating Members which is su'fficient to meet the nonprofit corporation's obligations, including debt service on Bonds, and upon notice from NCPA each Purchasing Pa'rticipating ~4ember may be required to pay such portion directly to the non- profit corporation. Such transfer and assignment By NCPA shall be made effective for such time as NCPA shall determine and pro- vide. 4. Sale of Power from Generatinq Plant. .qCPA will do all things necessary, and possible to deliver the output of the Project to Purchasing Participating Members in accord'ance with their Purchasin.g Participation Percentages, at a point on or adjacent to the Electric System of the Purchasing Participating Member, reasonably well adapted to 'the ability of such Member to uti'lize the power, and to make all necessary an-d possible arrange ment~, for transmission of such power over the lines of' o.thers, . . lO l! 14 15 16 !? 19 20 26 and for additional' power required 'from others a's reserves against planned or emergency service interruptions. 5. Rates and Ch.'.a_r_~j_e___s. Until Bonds are issued, total costs of the Project to NCPA will be paid pursuant to the Develop ment Fund Agreement. (a) Commending with t'he commercial operation of tile Project, NCPA or a nonprofit corporation undertaking to finance tile Project on behalf of NCPA, shall fix charges base'd on the anticipated power output of tile ~roject to produce Revenues not exceeding the amounts anticipated to be needed to meet the total costs .to provide power from the Project, including but not limit'ed to debt service on" Bonds, purchase of steam and all Other payments provided' for under the Shell Agreement, operation and maintenance costs and necessary replacements, and a reasonable reserv~ for contingencies, and to repay NCPA for all other Project costs. (b) Commencing with the issu'ance of Bonds for tile Project, but only to the extent that the funds provided under Section 5(a) hereof are not sufficient for such purpose and that the obligations under this Section 5(b) of the Purchasing Participating Members are pledged or assigned at the sole discretion of NCpA under any security agreement for Project Bonds of NCPA or a nonprofit cor- poration which has issued Project Bonds on behalf of NCPA, each Purchasing Participating Member s~all pay to NCPA, to such corporation or to an assio'nee of either of them (consent to which assignment is hereby given) an amount, lO 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 2'7 28 equal t'o such Purchasing Participating Member's Purchasing Participation Percentage of the total' cost to pay all amounts of principal and interest on the Bonds and all other payments 'required to be made under tile Bohd In" denture or other agreement or instrument providi~g for. the issuance and r. epayment, of tile Bonds. : The obligation of this Secti.on 5 is incurred by each · Purchasing Participating Member for.the benefit of future .. holders of NCPA Project Bonds and for the provider of the .. steam ,under the Shell .Agreement, among others, under'the Project, and shall commence and continue to exist and be · honored by Purchasing Participating Members whether or not power is furnished to them fr. om the Project at all times or at all, (which provision may be characterized as an obligation to pay ali costs on a tak'e-or.-pay basis · · whether or not such project output is delivered or pro- vided), to the extent that such a provision is, at the sole discretion of NCPA, included in any security agree- ment for NCPA Project Bonds. The Purchas°ing Participating Member shall make payments_ under this Agreement solely from the Revenues of, and as · an operating expense of, its. Electric System, whether or not the Project is completed, operable, operating, or retired and notwithstanding the suspension, interruption, interference, reduction or curtailment of Project output or the power and energy contracted for in whole or in part for any reason whatsoever, 'to the extent that such a pro- vision is, at the sole discretion of NCPA, includable in LO 20 any security agreemen't ments are not subject or otherwise, and are NCPA or any other Purchasing Participating Member under this Agreement .or any other agreement. Nothing herein shall be construed as proh'ibiting Purchasing Participating Member from using any other funds and revenues for pur- poses of satisfying any provision~ of this Agreement. . . No P. urchasii~g Part'icipating Member shall be liable und'er this Agreement for the debts of any other Purchasing Participating Member. The Purchasing Participating establish and collect power furnished through agrees to electric Electric to meet any and a charge and The for NCPA Project Bonds. Such pay- to any reductioh, whether by offset not Conditioned upon performance by adopt an annual budget pursuant to Section 8. A billing statement prepared the Purchasing Partic'ipating Member by NCPA will be sent to · not l a~er than the fifteenth agrees that it shall, at all times, operate the proper- ties of its Electric System and the business in connec- tion therewith in an efficie'nt manner and at reasonable · cost and shall maintain its Electric. System in good repair, working order, and condition. 5A. Annual Budqet and Billinq Stateme. nt. NCPA will its obligation under this Agreement and to pay all other amounts payable from or constituting lien upon any or all such Revenues. Purchasing Participating Member covenants and · · Member covenants and fees and charges for facilities of its System sufficient to provide Revenues. adequate 10 !1 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (15th) day aft'er the end of the billing period showing the amount payable by the Purchasing Participati'ng Member as its Purchasing Participating Percentage of monthly costs, as monthly costs are defined' in the Bond Indenture, for the preceding billing period and the amount of any credits. Amounts shown on the billing statement are due and payable thirty (30) days after the date of the billing statement. Any amount due and not paid by the Purchasing Participating Member within ~-hirty (30) days after the date of tile billing statement shall bear interest from the due date until paid at an annual rate to be established by NCPA at the time of the adoption of the Annual Budget. On or before the day five (5i calendar months after the end of each fiscal year, NCPA shall submit to the Purchasing Participating Member a statement of tile aggregate monthly costs for such fiscal year. If the actaal monthly costs and the Purchasing Participating Member's Purchasing Participation Per- centage thereof, pursuant to this Agreement or under tile Bond Indenture, and other amounts payable for any fiscal year exceed the estimate thereof on the bas'is of which the Purchasing Parti- cipating Member has been billed, the deficiency shall be added to the next succeeding billing statement. If the actual aggre- gate monthly costs and the Purchasi.ng Participating Member's.. · .. Purchasing Participation Percentage 'thereof and any adju'stment · of or credit to the Purchasing Participating Member's Purchasing Participation Percentage thereof or other amounts payable for any fiscal year are less than the estimate on th'e basis of wl~ich the Purchasing Participating Member has been billed, NCPA shall ., · /// 10 · 13 12 9 11 12 13 14 ' 15 16 17 18 19 20 2! 22 24 26 27 28 credit such next billing Ifa dist)ute tile shal 1 pay thirty NCPA. issue a the excess against the Purchasing Participating Member's statement. Purchasing correctness Participqting Member shall question or o'f any billi, ng statement .by NCPA, it NCPA the amount claimed when due and shall within (30) days of its receipt request an explanation from If tile bill is determined to be incorrect, NCPA will corrected bill and refund any amount which may be due Purchasing Participating Member. ..If NCPA and the Pur'ch'asing' Participating' Hembe'r'. fail · ao]ree 6'n' the correc{'ne§s of a afte:r 'the M6mber 'has r'eq~ested hromp:tly sbSmit' t~e' dispU{e· t'o seq. bi, l]' w~thi.~' tn'~.r.t~'"(3'o')' d'ays' an e'xp'la'h'ati, on: .'~he pa.rties arbi.~ra, tion.'~n~ter s6cti. On of the Code of Civil Procedure. 5B. Obligation in the Even't of'Default. Purchasing Participating Member to make to sha 1 l · 1280. 11 Upon failure of the any payment in full when due under this Agreement or to perform any other obli- gation hereunder, NCPA shall make demand upon such Purchasing Parti. cipating Member, and if said failure is not remedied within thirty (30) days from the date of such demand, it shall consti- tute a default at the expiration of such period. Notice of such demand shall be provided to the other Purchasing Partic.ipating-.... Members by NCPA. Upon the failure of the Purchasing Participating Hember to make any payment which failure constitutes a default under this Agreement, NCPA shall use its best efforts to sell and transfer all or a portion of such Purchasing Participating · MeL~ber's Purchasing Participation Percentage of Project output · ,. .6 10 ll 12 13 14 · 15 16 17 19 20 21 24 25 26 27 28 fo'r all or a portion men t. If all or any Member's Purchasing is transferred, the not be reduced, and remain liable Participation not been 'made, to the extent of the remainder of the term of this Agree- portion o~ the Purchasing Participating Participation Percentage of Project output · Purchasing Participating Member's share shall f rom the .Purchasing Participating to NCPA to pay the full amount of Percentage of monthly costs as if except that such liability shall that NCPA shall rece'ive payment thereof. If such default shall cause NCPA to be in the Bond' Indenture, NCPA may' terminate, the provisions /~greement insofar as the same entitle the Purchasing lng Member to its Purchasing Participation Percentage output. Except for such termination, the obligations Purchasing Participating Member under this Agreement tinue in full force and effect. Upon the failure of any Purchasing Participating to make any payment which failure constitutes a default this .Agreement, or upon termination, and made pursuant to the foregoing paragraph, pating Member's Purchasing Participation defaulting Purchasing Participating Member shall, included in the Bonds, be automatically increased maining term of this Agreement pro r'ata with that nondefaulting Purchasing Participating.Members and Purchasing Participating Member's Purchasing Percentage shall, (but only for purposes of, rive Purchasing Participation Percenl~ages of Member shall its Purchasing such sale had be discharged the transferee default under of this Parti ci pat- of Project of the shal 1 con- Member under except as transfers are the Purchasing Partici- Percentage of each non- to the extent for the re-- of the other the defaulting Participation computing the respec- the nondefaul ting lO 13 14 15 16 l? 20 ~3 24 Purchasing provi (led, defaulting Part~icipating Members), be reduced correspondingly; however, that the sum of such increases f'or any non- Purchasing Participating Member shall not exceed, without written consent of the nondefaulting Purchasing Partici- pati'ng Members, an accumulated maximum of 25% of the nondefaultin Purchasing Participating Member's original Purchasing Participa- ti on Percentage. If the Purchasing Participating Member shall fail or refuse to ~ay any amounts due to NCPA, the fact that other Purchasing Participating Members have increased their obliga'tionS to make such payments 'shall not relieve the defaulting Purchasing Participating Member of its liability for such payments, and any Purchasing Participating Members 'increasing such obligation shall have a right of recovery from.the defaultihg Purchasing Participating Member to the extent of such respective, increase.. · The Trustee shall have the right, as a third party bene-' ficiary, to initiate and maintain suit to enforce this Agreement to the extent provided in tile Bond Indenture. 5C. Covenant with Res..pect to Additional Oblig. ations · of Purchasinc~ Participatin(t Member- The Purchasing Participating Member shall not issue bonds, notes or other evidences of in- debtedness, or cause indebtedness t'o be issued on its behalf 'or enter into an agreement to take or tO take-or-pay for power and energy from a project, payable from tile Revenues of its Electric System on a parity with or superior to the payment of operating expenses of its Electric System, (including monthly costs as defined 'in tile Bond Indenture), unless sucl~ indebted- ness or agreement is on a parity with operating expenses and - . 13 10 1! 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 19 20 21 22 ¸23 24 25 27. 28 either (i) an ind6'pe'ndent consulting engineer or engineering firm or corporation having a nationa-1 and favorable reputation for'speCial skill, knowledge and experience in analyzing the operations of electric utility systems shall render and file with NCPA a written opinion that the incurrence o-f any such..indebted- ness or the entering into any sudh agreement will not materially adversely affect the capacity of such Purchasing Participating Member. to meet its obligations and covenants under this Agree- merit; or (ii) the annual payments under such indebtedness or agreement are fixed and the Revenues for the fiscal year next preceding the appro'val of such indebtedness or agreement are at least (a) 1.25 tin'~es the maximum' annual amount of such payments " pursuant to Section 5(b) hereof and under the proposed indebted' ness or agreement and all other similar inde-btedness and agree- · ments, plus (b) the sum of all other amounts payable from or. · constituting a charge or lien upon any of the Revenues in such · preceding fiscal year. 6. Transfer, Assiqnment, Sale and Exchano, e of Power and Rights Thereto. This Section places no restraint upon .any transfer, assignment, sale or exchange of Project power or rights thereto, of any Purchasing Participating Member when such transfer, assignment, sale or exchange is for the direct or System. Wi th or exchanges the unfettered rights so far the customers of 'its Electric transfers, assignments, sales indirect use of regard to such transfer, a.ssi gnment, the trans fer, . assi gnment, 14 Purchasing Participating Member has as this Agreement 'is concerned. As used in this Section, the exchange or sale of power i'ncludes 10 I1 12 13 14, is 16 17 19 20 ... 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 exchange or sale of rights thereto. (a) As to any other di. sposition Purchasing Participating Member ga tions under Section 5 assign, sell or exchange under this Agreement to this Section. of this power others of Project power, may subject to its ob 1 i- Agreement transfer, to which it is entitled onlY. as provided for in (b) Such power 'shall be offered first to other Purc'hasing Participating Memb6rs in this which desire to acquire such power for the use customers of their Electric Systems solely. Each Purchasing Participating.Member shall be limited in right to such power as against any other' Purchasing Participating Member to its Purchasing Participation Percentage thereof. '(c) Any such power Participating members of the Participating not accepted by Members shall .be offered Development Fund which are not Members, which shall .be limited rights as against each other to the Partic..ipation Percentage is to the total · pation Percentage of all such members. (d) Such power may then be offered entity provided that at ilo time shall those Project of the such its other Purchasing secondly to such Purchasing in their proportion which their of the Partici- t'o any person 'or any portion of such sold or exchanged with section 103(b) of the amended, if, such power be transferred, assigned, nonexempt entities as de'fined in Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as transfer, sale or exchange will cause any Bonds issued 15 10 II 12 13 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ..-5[ . ;.: .. 23 25 27 28 /// wi th respect revenue bonds the Internal subject (e) of power terms and Agreement and dispatch. ' (f) The paragraph (b) to 'the within Revenue to federal Any such provided for condi t ions subject set to treated as industrial Project to be the meanino of Code of 1954, as · income taxes. transfer, assignment, sale or exchange herein shall be in accor'dance with forth by the Development Fund the principles of economic Parti ci pati no or (c) above Purchasing Participating not more than the co°st of Purchasing Participating A..greement plus all.., other cipati.ng Member related to · . section 103(b) amended, and of no Membe rs shall Member such ~.lember receiving power under pay the transferring for-such power an a'mount power to such transferring under Section 5' of this · costs of such Purchas.ing · such transferred power. prohi bi ted Member sha exclusive of. its (g) To the extent not Purchasing Participating from any other source Parti- by ex. isting contracts ll purchase povier own generating projects if lower cost, to the other Participating assignment, sale or same restriction as (h) Upon request under this Section as pating ~.~ember. power is available under this Section at NCPA will i s des i red extent of such availability and any 'Member receiving'power by transfer, exchange her'eunder shall agree to the a condition of such receipt. arrange such transaction by a Purchas'i~g Partici- 16 Il 14 ~9 20 26 (i) No Purchasing Participating Member shall transferI ownership of substantially'all of its Electric System to ~' another entity until it h.as first complied with tile pro- visions of this subsection. -A consolidation with another governmental entity or'Change in governmental form is not deemed a transfer of ownership. date of such transfer, the Purchasing Participating (1) Before the rights of.the transferring Member under this Agreem'ent shall have been disposed of by transfer, assignment, sale or exchange pursuant to provisions of subsections (a), (b), (c) and (e) of this Sec.t.ion.'6, and subject.to the limitations of sdb- .. section 6(d), ef'fective as of the date of the transfer . . (2) Such disposition of power must be under terms and conditions that provide assurances to the holders of any outstanding Bonds secured by the Revenues of the Electric System of tile Purchasing Participating Member which is transferring o~vnership of its Electric System at least equivalent to the pledge herein of such Revenues, in order that NCPA's obligations under this Agreement, and under the Shell Agreement, and under Bond Indentures for the Project, and under other agreements made or to be made by NCPA to carry out the.~.Project, may be promptly and adequately met. NCPA may moneys to discharge such set aside and maintained condition to require that sufficient obligations be irrevocably in a trust account, as a the tr-ansfer'of tile Electric System, if 17 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22" 23 24 25 26 27 28 no other adequate assurance is (j) No transfers, assignments, available. sa'les or.exchanges shall diminish any Purchasing Participating Member's Project allocation without its consent, except in the case of a Purchasing Participating Member which sells its Electric System, and then only as provided in sub- section (i), and except as provided in Section 5B. 7. Insurance and Indemnificati'on, NCPA will obtain comprehensive and adequate casualty insurance on this Project. NCPA shall also indemnify and hold harmless its Purchasing Participating Members from any liability for bodily injury or property damage resulting from any accident or occurrence arising out of or in any way related to its construction and operation of such Project, and shall obtain insurance for such indemnifica- tion agreements in limits fixed by'NCPA. . , under this decisions · i t has been ment. shall Cooperative the Rura 1 Ag re e me n t tired, or interest not be Decisions. All decisions and expen'ditures by NCPA Agreement shall be made in the manner provided for and expenditureS in the Development Fund Agreement. Term. This Agreement; shall not take effect until executed b3~ all Participating Members. This Agree- not be binding upon Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric . until approved in writi~g by the Administrator of ElectrifiCation Administration. The term of this shall continue until all Bonds issued' have been re- full provisions made for their retirement, including until retirement date. 10. Termination and Amendments. This Agreement shall subject to termination by any party 'under any circum- 18 lO Il 14' 20 21 stances, whether based upon the default of any other par'ty.under this Agreement, or any other instr'ument, or otherwise,.ex-cept. as specifically provided herein.. So long as any of the Bonds are outstandi, ng and unpaid or funds are not set aside for the payment or retirement thereof in accordance with the Bond Indenture, this Agreement shall not be amended, modified or otherwise changed, or rescinded, by agreement of the parties' (i) in any manner that will have a material adverse effect on the payment of the principal of and premium, if any, and interest on the Bonds as they respectively become payable, (ii) in any ·manner that would limit or reduce the obliga'tion of the Purchasing Participating Members to make payments pursuant to this A'greement, or (iii) without the consent of tile Trustee. In this regard, NCPA shall cause notice of the. . 'proposed execution and delivery of. any such amendment together with a copy of the proposed amendment to be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, to the Trustee at lea'st fifteen (15) days prior to the proposed date of execution and delivery of any · such amendment. The Trustee shall be deemed to have consented to the execution and delivery of any such amendment if NCPA does not receive a letter of protest or objection thereto signed by or on behalf of the Trustee on or before 4'30 o'clock P.m., local time, at the principal office of the NCPA, on tile fifteenth (15th) day after tile mailing of said notice and a copy of tile pro posed amendment. IN WII'NESS WHEREOF each Purchasing Participating Member has executed this Agreement with the approval of its governing body, and caused its official .seal to be affixed and NCPA has 19 10 ll 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24 25 26 27 28 authorized this Agre'ement of its Commission. i n accordance wi th the 'authorization NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PONER AGENCY By. , And CITY OF ALAMEDA CITY OF ROSEVILLE' By and By and CITY OF BIGGS By and CII'Y OF SANTA CLARA By and CITY OF GRIDLEY By and CITY. OF ~fiAH I~ I ~ CITY OF HEALDSBURG By and PLUMAS-SIERRA RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE By and CITY OF LODI By and CITY OF LOMPOC By and 20