Great Plains Gasification Associates, A Partnership, Transco Coal Gas Company, A Partner Other Than The Tax Matters Partner - Page 28

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          of the project administrator and DOE’s regional office in                   
          Chicago, Illinois.  DOE was not, however, directly involved in              
          the plant’s day-to-day operations.                                          
          The Partnership’s Continued Activity                                        
               After DOE assumed control of the project, there were                   
          continuing disputes between the partnership and DOE, including              
          disputes over the partnership’s and the partners’ liability for             
          project expenses incurred under the standstill agreement.14  In             
          September and October 1985, ANG and DOE requested the                       
          partnership’s permission to sell certain “excess” project assets,           
          including parcels of real property, portable living quarters, and           
          some items of equipment.  The partnership declined to approve the           
          sale.15                                                                     
               Although the partnership did not direct or control the Great           
          Plains project after DOE assumed of control of it on August 1,              


               14 After several months of negotiations, the parties agreed            
          that the partnership owed DOE $13.4 million.  In July 1987, the             
          management committee met to approve this agreement and to call              
          for further equity contributions of $12.5 million from the                  
          partners to the partnership.  The partnership also made an                  
          additional cash call to satisfy a settlement with the State of              
          North Dakota for sales and use tax liabilities.                             
               15 In an Oct. 14, 1985, letter to the project administrator,           
          C. W. Rackley, chairman of the partnership’s management                     
          committee, advised that authority to approve the sale no longer             
          rested with the Management Committee and suggested that the                 
          request be directed to DOE.  In a Nov. 1, 1985, letter to DOE,              
          Mr. Rackley indicated that in view of the pending foreclosure               
          action, the partnership had been advised that it would not be               
          appropriate for the management committee to approve the sale.               





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