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Such cost shall include interest on and depreciation and operation and maintenance of the plant capacity while required for the generation of such substitute energy; and also appropriate allowance for interest on and maintenance and depreciation of plant capacity rendered idle because of cessation of generation of such substitute energy until such time as such plant capacity would otherwise have been installed by the lessees, respectively, for their own requirements. If the District and the respective lessees fail to agree on such compensation, such energy shall nevertheless be released to the District, and the disagreement shall be determined in accordance with Article twenty-two (22) (a) hereof. Such determination shall include allowance for items of cost and overhead as specified in this paragraph. Pending such determination, energy so released shall be paid for by the District at the rate for firm energy but the determination of compensation under Article twentytwo (22) (a) hereof shall not be controlled by such rate.

During any year beginning June first, the District shall not use any secondary energy or any unused State energy, until it has first used subsequent to June first, next preceding, an amount of firm energy equivalent to one-twelfth of the amount of firm energy it is obligated to take and/or pay for annually multiplied by the number of months elapsed since June first next preceding.

(4) If, due to temporary deficiency in secondary energy regularly used by the District, substitute energy is requested by the District in excess of the energy made available under the foregoing sub-paragraph (3) (b) the City and/or the Company may release so much energy as may be practicable on the same terms as provided in sub-section (3) (b) preceding.

D. To the municipalities of Anaheim, Beverly Hills, Burbank, Colton, Fullerton, Glendale, Newport Beach, Pasadena, Riverside, San Bernardino and Santa Ana (referred to herein as "the municipalities"), six per centum (6%) in all, to be allocated between them as they may agree; but if no agreement is submitted to the Secretary on or before April 15, 1931, the Secretary shall determine the allocation of each. E. To the City of Los Angeles, Thirteen per centum (13%).

F. To Southern California Edison Company Ltd., the Southern Sierras Power Company, the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company and the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation, referred to herein as the companies, nine per centum (9%) in all, division whereof between the companies shall be made according to mutual agreement among them, if possible. If no such agreement is submitted to the Secretary on or before April 15, 1931, the Secretary shall determine the allocation of each. It is further agreed that:

(i) So much of the energy allocated to the States (thirty-six per centum (36%) of the firm energy) and not in use by them, or failing their use, by the District for the above purposes, shall be taken and paid for one-half by the City and one-half by the Company.

In addition, all firm energy allocated to the City (thirteen per centum (13%)) shall be taken and paid for by the City.

(ii) All of the energy allocated to the municipalities may be contracted for in compliance with regulations of the Secretary, by any one or more of them, as they may agree, on or before April 15, 1931. So much of the energy allocated to the municipalities as is not so contracted for, or if contracted for, not used by them directly or under contract for municipal purposes and/or distribution to their inhabitants, shall be taken and paid for by the City.

(iii) So much of the energy allocated to the Southern Sierras Power Company, the San Diego Consolidated Gas and Electric Company, and the Los Angeles Gas and Electric Corporation as is not firmly contracted for by them, severally, in com

pliance with regulations of the Secretary on or before April 15, 1931, shall be taken and paid for by the Company.

(iv) If any allottee is permitted by the United States to divert water from the reservoir, at a time when the reservoir is not spilling, in consequence of which the amount of energy which would have been utilized is diminished, such diminution shall be debited to the allocation of firm energy herein made to such allottee; and charge for the energy equivalent of such diversion shall be made, and the amount of energy which the allottee shall otherwise be obligated to take and pay for hereunder shall be correspondingly reduced.

The reservoir shall be considered as spilling whenever water is being discharged in excess of the amount used for the generation of power, whether such waste occurs over the spillway or otherwise.

(v) Each of the States of Arizona and Nevada may, from time to time within the period of the aforesaid lease, contract for energy for use within such State in any amount until the total allocated respectively to each is in use as provided above; and may terminate such contract, or contracts, without prejudice to the right to again contract for such energy. All such contracts shall be executed with the Secretary. A contract requiring one thousand (1000) horsepower (of maximum demand) or less may become effective or be terminated on six months written notice of requirement or termination given the Director by the State; provided, that the notice given shall be two years if in the twelve months preceding said notice of demand the total increment to such state has exceeded five thousand (5000) horsepower of maximum demand or if in the twelve months preceding said notice of termination the decrement to such state has exceeded five thousand (5000) horsepower of maximum demand. In all cases the Director shall immediately transmit such notice to each lessee. Whenever the amount in use is in excess of five thousand (5000) horsepower of maximum demand, the lessees respectively shall be compensated for property rendered idle by use of such excess in such amount as the Secretary shall determine to be equitable. Firm energy not contracted for by the States shall be available for use by the District as herein elsewhere provided, and if not in use by the States and/or the District, shall be taken and paid for equally by the two lessees. No right which may be available to a State under section five (5) (c) of the Boulder Canyon Project Act to execute a firm contract for electrical energy for use within the State shall be impaired by any provision of this contract.

Of Secondary Energy

It is further agreed that the District shall have the right to purchase and use all secondary energy as provided in Article nine (9) and Article fourteen (14) hereof for the purposes stated in the first paragraph of sub-division (C) of this Article. The City and the Company shall each have the right to purchase and use one-half of all secondary energy not used by the District. Any such energy not used by one lessee shall be available, for the time being, to the other. If secondary energy is not taken by the District, the City, and/or the Company then and in such event, the United States reserves the right to take, use and dispose of such energy, from time to time, as it sees fit, giving credit therefor as provided in Article twelve (12) of Exhibit "A" hereof.

Of Firm Energy Allocated to but not Used by the District

It is further agreed that in the event the District shall fail for any reason to use all or any of the firm energy herein allotted to it for the only purpose for which said firm energy is allotted to it, that is, for pumping water into and in its aqueduct, then the Secretary shall dispose of such unused energy until required by the District for said purpose, crediting on the District's obligation the proceeds of such disposition as received; provided, however, that no disposition of such firm energy shall be made by

the Secretary without first giving to a successor to the District which may undertake to build or maintain a Colorado River Aqueduct the opportunity to take said firm energy for the same purpose and under the same terms as those to which the District was obligated; and provided further that in the event no such successor takes said firm energy as provided above, then no disposition of such firm energy shall be made by the Secretary without first giving to each lessee the opportunity to contract on equal terms and conditions, to be prescribed by the Secretary, for one-half of such energy, together with such portion of the remainder as the other lessee shall not elect to take. Of Firm Energy not Hereinbefore Disposed of

It is further agreed that the United States reserves the right, in case the dam which it erects provides a maximum water surface elevation in excess of one thousand two hundred twenty-two (1222) feet above sea level (U. S. Geological Survey Datum), and thereby increases the quantity of firm energy above the quantity of four billion two hundred forty million (4,240,000,000) kilowatt-hours allocated above, to dispose of such increase, but not to exceed ninety million (90,000,000) kilowatt-hours per year (June 1st to May 31st, inclusive), to any municipality or municipalities by firm contract executed with the Secretary on or before April 15, 1931. Such disposition shall be without prejudice to any provision of this lease or of the allocation above referred to. So much of such additional energy as is not so contracted for shall be taken and paid for by the City. Generation of such additional energy shall in any event be effected by the City.

(6) That Article Fourteen (14) of said contract of April 26, 1930, be amended to read as follows:

"MINIMUM ANNUAL PAYMENT

(14) The minimum quantity of firm energy which the District shall take and/or pay for each year (June 1st to May 31st, inclusive), under the terms of this contract, and after the same is ready for delivery to the District, as provided in subdivision (b) of Article Eleven (11) hereof, shall be thirty-six per centum (36%) of all firm energy as defined in Article Nine (9) hereof, available in said year. The total payments made by the District for firm energy available in any year (June 1st to May 31st, inclusive), whether any energy is taken by it, or not, exclusive of its payments for credit to the generating agency, shall be not less than the number of kilowatt-hours of firm energy which the District is obligated to take and/or pay for during said year, multiplied by one and sixty-three hundredths mills ($0.00163), or multiplied by the adjusted rate of payment for firm energy in case the said rate is adjusted as provided in Article Twelve (12) hereof. For a fractional year at the beginning or end of the contract period, the minimum annual payment for firm energy shall be proportionately adjusted in the ratio that the number of days water is available for generation of energy in such fractional year bears to three hundred sixty-five (365). Provided, however, that in order to afford a reasonable time for the District to absorb the energy contracted for, the minimum annual payments by it for the first three (3) years after energy is ready for delivery to it, as announced by the Secretary, as herein elsewhere provided, shall be as follows, in percentages of the ultimate annual obligation, to take and/or pay for firm

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During said absorption period, if the quantity of energy taken in any one year (June 1st to May 31st, inclusive), is in excess of the above percentages of the ultimate obligation during such year to take and/or pay for firm energy, such excess shall be paid for at the rate for secondary energy. Provided, further that the minimum annual payment shall be reduced in case of interruptions or curtailment of delivery of water as provided in Article Sixteen (16) hereof.

The total payments made by the District for generation of such energy, to be credited to the generating agency, shall be determined in accordance with Article Twelve (12) hereof."

(7) That Exhibit "A" attached to and made a part of said contract of April 26, 1930, which said Exhibit is entitled "Contract for Lease of Power Privilege," between The United States of America, The City of Los Angeles, and Southern California Edison Company, Ltd., be amended to accord with amendment thereof effected by the parties thereto by a supplemental contract dated the 28th day of May, 1930. Copy of said supplemental contract is attached hereto marked Exhibit "B" and by this reference made a part hereof. (8) The other Articles of said contract executed April 26, 1930, shall remain unchanged hereby (that is, Articles One (1) to Thirty-two (32), inclusive, save Articles Seven (7) and Fourteen (14), and said contract amended as hereinabove provided is adopted and reaffirmed by the parties hereto as of the day and year first above written.

(9) No member of or Delegate to Congress or Resident Commissioned, shall be admitted to any share or part of this contract, or to any benefit that may arise therefrom. Nothing, however, herein contained shall be construed to extend to this contract if made with a corporation for its general benefit. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this contract to be executed the day and year first above written.

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(1) THIS SUPPLEMENTAL CONTRACT, made this twenty-third day of September, nineteen hundred thirty-one, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat., 388), and acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, all of which acts are commonly known and referred to as the reclamation law, and particularly pursuant to the Act of Congress approved December 21, 1928 (45 Stat., 1057), designated the Boulder Canyon Project Act, between the United States OF AMERICA, hereinafter referred to as the United States, acting for this purpose by Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior, hereinafter styled the Secretary, and, severally, THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES, a municipal 357

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