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<br />- 5 - <br /> <br />The legal analysis discusses the federal laws which UP&L admits bar <br />it from getting CRSP power now but which it claims should be disregarded in the <br />interest of "fairness." It examines the policy behind those laws and their applica- <br />tion and concludes with a point-by-point refutation of the constitutional argu- <br />ments UP&L has advanced to buttress its claim that existing laws should no longer <br />apply. <br /> <br />Ultimately, CREDA hopes this report will demonstrate to everyone <br />seeking solutions to America's energy problems, the folly of UP&L's attempt to <br />start a civil war in the electric utility industry. The plain facts and decades of <br />settled law show that such an undertaking must not and cannot be won by UP&L. <br />The experience in the recent down-sizing of the Intermountain Power Project in <br />Utah and the power supply debacle facing utilities in the Pacific Northwest prove <br />at least one thing: this Nation's electric utility industry has enough to worry <br />about together without its members wasting valuable ratepayer dollars fighting <br />among themselves. The country's electric consumer is entitled to nothing less <br />than full cooperation among all electric utilities, working with one another rather <br />than against one another. CREDA hopes that you, the reader, will agree and will <br />insist that UP&L cease its campaign to take CRSP power away from consumer- <br />owned utilities. America's utilities should turn their attention to solving the <br />Nation's energy problems rather than creating them. <br />