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ORDER NO. PSC -2020 -0293 -AS -EI DOCKET NOS. 20200067 -EI, 20200069 -EI, 20200070 -EI, 20200071 -EI, 20200092 -EI PAGE 17 Attachment A a manner that bei efits the customers .of .utilities subject. to the Conimission's regulatory jurisdiction. Accordingly, the Agreement is in the public interest and should be approved. 18. Pursuantto Rule 28406.204(3), F.A:C..,.the Parties have conferred with the Florida Industrial Power Users Group ("FIPUG"), r�,hich wasgranted ,intervention by Order NOS. PSC - 2020 -0233 -PCO -EI: FIPUG has advised. that it takes no position on the Agreement.' Notwithstanding, the Parties jointly submit that the proppsed Agreemei t is in the public interest and should :be approved in its entirety for the reasons stated above." WHEREFORE; for all .the reasons stated above, the.Office .of Public Counsel, Gulf Power Company, Florida Power & Dight Company; and Walniart Inc. jointly and respeetfully'regi est that the Florida Public Service Commission exped tiously -approve the Stipulation and Settlement Agreement,provided as Attachment A to this Joint Motion. z MG did not actively participate in discovery or submit any testimony or evidence in oppositionto the Gulf or FPL SPPs. in its Preheiring Statement, F1PUG did not take a;specifie position on any of the issues auk mstead, adopted the positions of 0710, which is a signatory panty to the Stipulation and Settlement Agreement provided.as Attaelunent A to this Joint Motion. The Florida Supreme Court has affirmed that the Commission has the authority and discretion to approve a non -unanimous settlement over the objections of intervenors if the Commission finds the settlement is in the public mterest. Cinens, 146,So. 3d at 1152-54; see abvo S F7q.:Hg5p. &.HealthcareAss'n v. Jaber, 887 So:2d 1210,.212-13 (Fla. 2004) (affirming the Commission's appraval of a non -unanimous settlement agreement despite the absence of a full evidentiary_ hearing). The Florida Supreme Court has explained that "it would be unreasonable to :allow a single holdout party that does not ;et its. way on one issue during settlement negotiations to derail ;the entire settlement process.if settlement is fully in the:public's interest all along." Sierra Chib,.243 S63d at 913.