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RESOLUTION NO. _~_
(Series of 1973)
WHEREAS, by Ordinance No. 5 of the Series of 1961, the
City of Aspen, Colorado granted to Rocky Mountain Natural
Gas Company, Inc. a franchise for the transmission, distri-
bution and sale of "gas, either natural, artificial or mixed"
to the City of Aspen and the inhabitants thereof; and
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the Aspen City
Council that the said Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Company is
contemplating the purchase of gas freed by the 1969 underground
nuclear blast at Rulison, Colorado, and the eventual transmission
and sale of such gas through its distribution system; and
WHEREAS, the City Council is deeply concerned about the
potential dangers arising from the radio-activity which will be
present in such Rulison gas; and
WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the City Council that the
authorization in the franchise to distribute and sell natural
gas, or upon the failure of the supply of natural gas, to
supply artificial or mixed gas, does not include the right
to distribute and sell gas containing a higher radio-active
count than the gas which the parties to said franchise intended
to be delivered at the time said franchise was granted,
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the
City of Aspen, Colorado, that no gas of any kind containing
a radio-active count higher than that present in the gas
originally supplied to the City of Aspen under its 1961
franchise with Rocky Mountain Natural Gas Company, shall ever
be introduced into the City gas distribution system without
the franchise first being re-negoiated and approval of the
Aspen electorate and
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the prior written consent of the Aspen City Council being
first obtained, and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that a violation of the aforesaid
Resolution shall be deemed a default under the terms and pro-
visions of said 1961 franchise.
Dated this ~ day of April, 1973.
~ ./~;~ Mayor
I, Lorraine Graves, duly appointed City Clerk of the
City of Aspen, Colorado, do hereby certify that the foregoing
is a true and correct copy of the Resolution adopted by the
Aspen City Council at the regular meeting held on ~
City Clerk
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