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<br />e <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ORDINANCE NO. 1636 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE DENYING THE PROPOSED SCHEDULE OF RATES FOR ELECTRIC <br />UTILITY SERVICE FILED BY HOUSTON LIGHTING & POWER COMPANYi <br />CONTAINING FINDINGS AND OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED TO THE SUBJECTi <br />FINDING COMPLIANCE WITH THE OPEN MEETINGS LAWi AND PROVIDING AN <br />EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF. <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on November 23, 1988, Houston Lighting & Power company <br /> <br />(the nCompanyn) filed with the City a proposed schedule of rates for <br /> <br />electric utility service within the city's limits to be effective as <br /> <br />of December 29, 1988i and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on December 12, 1988, the City, pursuant to Section <br /> <br />43(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Act, suspended the operation <br />of the proposed change in rates for a period of 90 days beyond the <br /> <br />proposed effective datei and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Company's filing is so extensive and complex., and <br /> <br />given the statutory time constraints, it would not be an efficient <br /> <br />use of the City's resources to undertake the extremely large expense <br /> <br />of a comprehensive, independent evaluation of the issuesi and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Public Utility Commission of Texas (the <br /> <br />.Commissionn) has the authority and expertise to adjudicate these <br />complex issues and will, in fact, be doing so for other similarly <br /> <br />situated cities and unincorporated areas within the Company's <br /> <br />service territory in Docket No. 8425, Houston Lighting & Power <br />Company's Application for Authority to Change Ratesi and <br />WHEREAS, the Commission has initiated Docket No. 6668, Inquiry <br /> <br />of the Public Utility Commission of Texas Into the Prudency and <br />Efficiency of the Planning and Management of the Construction of the <br />South Texas Nuclear Project, to conduct a detailed review of the <br />management and prudence of South Texas Nuclear Project, Unit 1, <br />which has not been pending for more than two yearsi and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City is desirous of assuring that the Commission <br /> <br />will have a timely opportunity to consolidate the City rate case and <br />proceeding into the Company's systemwide rate case, in which City <br />has intervened as part of the Houston Coalition of Cities with <br /> <br />Original Jurisdictioni and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City, through the denial of the Company's proposed <br />schedule of rates, is not deciding the case on the merits, but is <br /> <br />basing its rationale for denial on the above four paragraphsi <br />