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ORDER NO. PSC -2020 -0293 -AS -EI DOCKET NOS. 20200067 -EI, 20200069 -EI, Attachment A 20200070-EI,20200071-EI,20200092-EI PAGE 15 El and '20200071-E1, respectively, and have established the reasonable costs 'which the Commission has a record basis 'to authorize FPL and Gulf to recover then through the SPPCRC in .2021, subject to Commission review for prudence in the normal course of ;the clause: procccdinngs. assumuig the Gulf and :FPL SPPs are approved. with modifications set forth in the Attached Settlement Agreement-. The Parties hereby jointly request that the Cotntnission review and approve he Agreement in its entirety andwithout, modification. 13. The Commission has a :"long history of encouraging settlements; giving great . weight and deference to settlements, and enforcing them in the. spirit nwhich they. were ;reached by the :parties:" Re Florida Power & Light Company, Docl et,No 20050045-E1;.Order No PSC= 2005=0902 -S -EI (FPSC Sept. 14, 2005). The proper standard for the' Commission's approval of a settlement agreement`s whether it is iii the public interest Sierra Club v. Brown, 243 So.3d 903, 910-913 (Fla. 2018) -(citing Citizens of State v. FPSC; 146 So.3d 1143, 11'64 (Fla. 2014.)); see also GUT, 1. Coop.., Inc. v..lohnson, 727 So:2d 259,-264 (Fla. 19 99) (`[i)n the finat. analysis, the public interest is the ultmnatc measuring stick to guide the PSC in its decisions'). 14. Tlie proposed Agreement represents a reasonable compromise of competing positions acrd is a full and complete resolution of all matters in Docket Nos. 20200070. and 20200071 and a partial resolution of:significant matters in Docket No. 20200092. If approved by the Commission, the Agreement will establish a series of stipulations that will reduce the issues to. " The Florida Supreme Court has explained that the "determination of what is in the, public interestrests exclusively with the Commission." Citizens, 144 So.3d at 1173. The Commission has broad discret"on iii deciding what is in the public interest and may consider a variety of factors in reaching its decision. See Re The If oodlands of Lake Placid ..P.. Docket No... 20030;102 -WS, Order No. PSC -2004-1162 FOP -WS, p. Z (FPSC Nov. 22,2004); In Re.; Petition for approval of plan to bring generating units into compliance. with the Clean ii it & by C< f Power Company;'bocket No.. 19921155-F1, Order No. PSC -1993-1 S7.6-. FOF-Fi, p. I,5 (FPSC Sept. 20, 2003). I Io�vcver, the Commission is not required to resolve the. t4ecr"tc of every issue independently. Sierra:Chib; 243 So.Sd at 913 (citing Citizens, ;146 So.3d at 1153). Rather, a "determination of public intcrest requires a case -specific analysis based on consideration of: thc::proposed settlement taken as a -,i3holc " In re: Petitio"� fbrRrte Increase by.GulfPower Co., Docket No. 20160,186= EI, Order No. PSC 2017-0178-S=E1; 2417 WL 2212M, at *6 (FPSC May 16, 2017).