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ORDINANCE NO. <br />r! r C , a N r► '� a d N a I � N r I d i / <br />i I i <br />N <br />• d M I r y. r � • !. y �, a <br />i � IN ��,, M. L. �.. it •. ' i� •. �.. � • <br />N � • � I ►' ��I I � M � M � � � N, <br />WHEREAS, the City of Paris, Texas ("City") is a gas utility customer of Atmos Energy <br />Corp., Mid -Tex Division ("Atmos Mid -Tex" or "Company") and a regulatory authority with <br />an interest in the rates and charges of Atmos Mid-T'ex; and <br />WHEREAS, the City and similarly -situated laid -Tex municipalities created the <br />Steering Committee of Cities Served by Atmos to efficiently address all rate and service <br />matters associated with delivery of natural gas; and. <br />WHEREAS, the Steering Committee formed an Executive Committee to direct legal <br />counsel and to recommend certain specific actions to all aligned Mid -Tex Cities, through <br />resolution or ordinance; and <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms of a November 2007 agreement between the <br />Steering Committee and Atmos Mid -Tex that settled the Company's interim rate filing <br />under Section. 104.301 of the Texas Utilities Code (a "GRIP" rate case), the Steering <br />Committee and the Company collaboratively developed a Rate Review Mechanism ("RR") <br />Tariff, ultimately authorized by the City in 2008, that allows for an expedited rate review <br />process as a substitute for the GRIP process; and <br />WHEREAS, the City has Dept some form of a RRM Tariff in place until 2017 when it. <br />adopted an ordinance approving an RRM Tariff filing settlement and specifically calling for <br />termination of the existing RRM Tariff and negotiation of a replacement RRM Tariff <br />following the Railroad Commission's decision in a then -pending Atmos Texas Pipeline case <br />(GUD No. 10580); and. <br />WHEREAS, the Steering Committee's Executive Committee has recently approved a <br />settlement with the Company on the attached RRM Tariff that contains certain notable <br />