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ORDER NO. PSC -2020 -0293 -AS -EI <br />DOCKET NOS. 20200067 -EI, 20200069 -EI, <br />20200070-EI,20200071-EI,20200092-EI <br />PAGE 42 <br />Attachment B <br />BEFORETHE FLORIDA PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION. <br />Review of 2020-2029. Storm Protection Plan Docket :No: 20200069 -El <br />pursuant to Rule 25-6.030, F.A.C., Duke Energy <br />Florida, JJ,C <br />Filen; August 3, 2020 <br />DILINVOR03151 <br />WHEREAS, Duke Energy Florida, LLC ("DEF"), "), Citizens through the Office of Public <br />Counsel (" OPC"), White Springs Agricultural Chemicals, h1c..d(b1a PCS Phosphate ("PCS. <br />Phospbate"), and Walmart Inc. (collectively, the—Parties) have signed this Stipulation and.. <br />Settlement Agreement (the "Agreement"); unless the context<clearly requires otherwise, the term <br />"Party" or "Parties" means a signatory to this Agreement; <br />WHEREAS, On June 27, 2019, the Governor of Florida signed CS/CS/CS/SB 796 <br />addressing Storm Protection: Plan Cost Recovery; which was :codified in Section 366.96, RS.; <br />WHEREAS, the. Florida Legislature found iii Section 366`96(1)(c), F.S., that it was in the <br />State's interest to "strengthen electric utility` infrastructure to withstand extreme weather <br />conditions by promoting the overhead hardening of electrical transmission and' distribution. <br />facilities, the urtudrgrounding'of certain electrical distribution lines, and vegetation <br />management" and for each. electric utility to "mitigate restoration costs and outage times to. <br />utility customers when developing trAnsmission. and distribution stone prgw,tion,plans." Section <br />366.96('l)(e), F.S.•, <br />WHEREAS, the Florida Legislature directed each'utility to file a ten-year Storm <br />a �9 <br />