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DIRECT TESTIMONY OF GERALD C. HARTMAN, ?.E., BCEE, ASA
Vice President of Evans, provided a letter requesting service for several
existing structures within the proposed service territory of Bluefield.
Those existing structures consist of one
(1) lodge/house two (2) employee
houses and two (2) shops and (2) offices in what Evans terms the Bluefield
property, which is in Phase I of utility service provision in St. Lucie
County and is denoted as ID 2 on Figure iia) in Appendix I of the
Application. These were considered as 14 ERCs in the Application. In St.
Lucie County there are an additional three (31 employee houses that Mr.
Evans has requested service for but they are not planned for Phase I.
Service will be provided as soon as possible. As with Mr. Edwards, an
example letter was provided to Mr. Evans and he provided us with a request
for service for the existing properties which is in the Application and
which was considered in the Cost of Service Study (for Phase I service
provision) which was performed under my direction and control. Appendix
IV of the Application contains a Water Lease Agreement and Appendix VI of
the Application contains a Wastewater Lease Agreement. Examples of water
and wastewater lease agreements were provided to Dean, Mead, Minton and
Zwemer as well as Evans by our firm. The leases were drafted and
submitted to us by Dean, Mead, Minton and Zwemer for inclusion in this
filing. I was involved in discussions of the terms of the Agreements and
am knowledgeable of them as well as some minor changes to be made to the
leases which I will discuss later in my testimony. It is the intention of
Grove Land and Evans that the Commission be comfortable with the lease
agreements and Evans and Grove Land will work with staff to incorporate
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