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SERVICE COMMISSION
To the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
WHEREAS an Act 641, Public Acts of 1978, Solid Waste Management Plan for
Oakland County was approved locally and by the Michigan Department of Natural
Resources in July 1983; and
WHEREAS the central feature of that plan is a waste-to-energy facility to
minimize the reliance on the use of sanitary landfills; and
WHEREAS the waste-to-energy facility will burn municipal solid waste and
generate electricity which will be sold to an electric utility; and
WHEREAS in the financinc of waste-to-energy facilities, prospective bond
Purchasers require solid contracts guaranteeing the payment of certain rates for
the sale of electrical energy to utilities; and
WHEREAS in annual rate rases before the Michigan Public Services
Commission various groups have now threatened or begun to challence,these
contracts by trying to prohibit the utility from recovering from their rate
payers the amounts they pay under such contracts; and
WHEREAS if this practice would actually occur it would threaten the
financial well being of a waste-to-energy facility and its anticipated revenues,
thereby resulting in extra costs to its users or even create a climate in which
prospective bond purchasers would refuse to make the investment; and
WHEREAS once a contract is entered into between an owner/operator of a
waste-to-energy facility and a electric utility company providing for the
purchase of electrical energy and that contract has been approved by the
Michigan Public Service Commission, it is essential that the contract and its
rates not be challenoable in later years; and
WHEREAS House Bill 4478 by the amendment of section Ej of Act No. 3 of the
Public Acts of 1939, will serve to continue the Michigan Public Service
Commission approved rates in later years. 1
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Oakland County Board of
Commissioners. supports House Bill 4478.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to all
legislators from Oakland County and to the County's Legislative Agent.
Chairperson, on behalf of the General Government Committee, I move the
adoption of the foregoing resolution.
GENERAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE
28th day o 19 87
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Misc. 87140
May 22, 1987
Moved by Skarritt supported by Angus McPherson the resolution be adopted.
AYES: McConnell, Angus McPherson, Moffitt, Nelson, Page, Perinoff, Pernick
Price, Rewold, Skarritt, Aaron, Caddell, Calandra, Crake, Gosling, Hobart,
Jensen, Richard Kuhn, Susan Kuhn, Lanni. (20)
NAYS: Ruel McPherson, Wilcox, Doyon. (3)
A sufficient majority having voted therefor, the resolution was adopted.
STATE OF MICHIGAN)
COUNTY OF OAKLAND)
I, Lynn D. Allen, Clerk of the County of Oakland and having a seal
do hereby certify that I have compared the annexed copy of
this Miscellaneous Resolution adopted by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners
• at their meeting held on May 28,.1987
with the orginial record thereof now remaining in my office, and
that it is a true and correct transcript therefrom, and of the
whole thereof.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the
seal of said County at Pontiac, Michigan
County Clerk/Register of Deeds
this
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REPORT
BY: Planning and Building Committee-Anne M.Hobart, Chairperson
IN RE: HOUSE BILL 4478 (SUPPORT) WHICH WILL ALLOW UTILITIES TO AUTOMATICALLY
RECOVER FROM THEIR RATEPAYERS ALL CAPACITY PAYMENTS MADE TO COGENERATORS/
SMALL POWER PRODUCERS ONCE A POWER SALES CONTRACT HAS BEEN APPROVED
BY THE MICHIGAN PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
TO: General Government Committee-Richard G. Skarritt, Chairperson
Mr. Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen:
The Planning and Building Committee having reviewed the
above referenced resolution, reports with the recommendation that
the resolution be adopted.
Mr. Chairperson, on behalf of the Planning and Building
Committee, I submit the foregoing report.
PLANNING AND BUILDING COMMITTEE