Document:

Nicor Inc Exhibit 10.13

    Nicor
      Inc.

    Form
      10-Q

    Exhibit
      10.13

    AMENDMENT
      NO. 2 TO THE INTERIM COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

    

    Commonwealth
      Edison Company (“Edison”), an Illinois corporation, and Nicor Gas (“Nicor”)
      (formerly known as Northern Illinois Gas Company), an Illinois corporation,
      (collectively, “Utilities”) hereby modify their Interim Cooperative Agreement of
      October 28, 1993, as amended, (“Agreement”) by entering into this Amendment No.
      2 (“Amendment”) to the Agreement.

    

    WHEREAS,
      without admitting any liability, the Utilities entered into the Agreement to
      provide an interim cooperative arrangement for the Utilities to address certain
      issues at certain former manufactured gas plant (“MGP”) sites in
      Illinois;

    

    WHEREAS,
      the Utilities have decided that ten (10) sites should be added to the list
      of
      MGP sites on Attachment A to the Agreement (“Site List”);

    

    WHEREAS,
      the Utilities have decided that other amendments should be made to the
      Agreement;

    

    NOW,
      THEREFORE, based on the covenants and mutual promises contained herein, Edison
      and Nicor agree that, pursuant to Section 16 of the Agreement, the Agreement
      is
      modified as follows.

    

    
      	
              1.

            	
              The
                Site list in Attachment A of the Agreement is amended to include
                the
                following MGP sites (collectively, the “Ten
                Sites”):

            

    

    

    Dixon
      1
      (2nd
      St.)

    Dixon
      II
      (River & Perry)

    DuQuoin
      (Chestnut)

    Elgin
      TDC-570-0044

    Kenilworth

    Mendota
      (Main St.)

    Murphysboro
      I (Walnut)

    Murphysboro
      II (Big Muddy)

    Rockford
      (Avon & Cedar)

    Rockford
      II (Mulberry)

    

    The
      Ten
      Sites are subject to all of the terms of the Agreement, except as otherwise
      provided in this Amendment. If there is any conflict between the terms of the
      Agreement and the terms of this Amendment, the terms of this Amendment shall
      govern.

    

    
      	
              2.

            	
              Section
                1.2 is amended as follows:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              a)

            	
              In
                the first sentence, delete “unless ninety (90) days before the Utility
                intends to commence such litigation it sends the other Utility, by
                telecopy and U.S. mail, written notice of such intent” and replace it with
                “unless the Utility provides the other Utility at least 90 days prior
                written notice, by telecopy and U.S. mail, of its intent to commence
                such
                litigation”;

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              b)

            	
              In
                the second sentence, insert “or after” following
                “on”;

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              c)

            	
              In
                the third sentence, insert “or after” following
                “On”.

            

    

    

    
      	
              3.

            	
              The
                following is added as a new Section 2.2 and the current Section 2.2
                and
                2.3 are renumbered as 2.3 and 2.4,
                respectively:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              a)

            	
              The
                Utilities, or the Coordinator/Utility in connection with its retention
                of
                consultants or contractors, from time to time may agree, or have
                agreed,
                to provide an indemnity and/or defense to a current owner, consultant,
                or
                other third-party involved with an MGP site listed on Attachment
                A, or to
                an agent under an agreement to execute manifests in accordance with
                Section 8(e) below and Attachment D. The indemnification and /or
                defense
                obligations that the Utilities or the Coordinator/Utility are required
                to
                perform under any written agreement (including all reasonable attorney
                and
                consultant fees and expenses) shall be Shared Costs regardless of
                whether
                or when such indemnification or defense obligations arise, and regardless
                of the extent (if any) to which such obligations are associated with
                investigation or remediation of an MGP site. The indemnification
                and
                defense obligations specified in the preceding sentence are hereinafter
                referred to as “Indemnification Obligations.” The Indemnification
                Obligations may include, for example, an indemnity to the owner of
                an MGP
                site for property damage or personal injury caused during any
                investigation or remediation, or for any additional investigation
                or
                remediation required by a governmental agency beyond that initially
                performed by the Utilities. Each Utility shall pay 50% of the costs
                of any
                kind or nature whatsoever of performing any Indemnification Obligations,
                subject to the final allocation of Shared Costs between the Utilities
                pursuant to Sections 4, 5 and 6 of this Agreement. For example, if
                one
                Utility is allocated 60% of the Shared Costs for an MGP site, that
                Utility
                shall be allocated 60% of any Indemnification Obligations for that
                site.
                If, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement governing litigation
                between the Utilities involving a site on the Site List, the Utilities
                litigate any issues concerning their respective potential liability
                for
                Shared Costs for a site on the Site List, or the allocation of Shared
                Costs for a site on the Site List, the Indemnification Obligations
                for
                such site shall be allocated pursuant to the allocation of Shared
                Costs resulting from a final judgment in such litigation or settlement
                or
                such litigation. Any written agreement that creates any Indemnification
                Obligations benefiting a third-party (other than a contractor or
                consultant found to be mutually acceptable under Section 8(a) of
                this
                Agreement) that is entered into by either Utility after the date
                of this
                Second Amendment to the Agreement shall be executed by both
                Utilities.

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              b)

            	
              As
                part of the investigation and/or remediation strategy for an MGP
                site on
                the Site List, the Utilities may elect to purchase all or a portion
                of the
                site. Title to all sites purchased under this Section 2.2(b) shall
                be held
                in an Illinois land trust established with a mutually acceptable
                land
                trustee with the Utilities as sole beneficiaries. All costs and
                liabilities of purchasing and owning the site shall be Shared Costs
                including, but not limited to, the purchase price, closing costs
                or fees,
                taxes, insurance, maintenance, external legal fees and trustee fees
                directly arising from the purchase or ongoing ownership of the
                site.

            

    

    

    The
      Utilities shall enter into a property management agreement that shall provide,
      among other things, that one-half of any and all revenue (e.g. rental or lease
      payments) derived from the ownership of any site purchased pursuant to this
      Section 2.2(b) shall be distributed to each Utility on a monthly basis
      (hereinafter referred to as “MGP Site Revenue”). For any site purchased pursuant
      to this Section 2.2(b), all MGP Site Revenues distributed before the final
      allocation of Shared Costs between the Utlities pursuant to Sections 4, 5,
      and 6
      of this Agreement shall be redistributed, and any future MGP Site Revenues
      shall
      be distributed, consistent with the final allocation. For example, if one
      Utility is allocated 60% of the Shared Costs for a purchased former MGP site,
      that Utility shall be allocated 60% of all past and future MGP Site Revenues.
      If, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement governing litigation between
      the Utilities involving a site on the Site List, the Utilities litigate any
      issues concerning their respective potential liability for Shared Costs for
      a
      site on the Site List, or the allocation of Shared Costs for a site on the
      Site
      List, the MGP Site Revenue for such site shall be allocated pursuant to the
      allocation of Shared Costs resulting from a final judgment in such litigation
      or
      settlement of such litigation.

    

    
      	
              4.

            	
              The
                current Section 2.2(b) as amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Interim
                Cooperative Agreement (“Amendment No. 1”), which Section is renumbered as
                Section 2.3(b), is amended by deleting the semi-colon and replacing
                it
                with “except as provided in Section
                2.2;”.

            

    

    

    
      	
              5.

            	
              The
                current Section 3.1(d) (iv) of the Agreement, as added by Amendment
                No. 1,
                is deleted and replaced with:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              (iv)

            	
              any
                costs of any kind or nature whatsoever that Edison and CIPS incur
                at any
                time, if approved by Nicor, to perform indemnification and/or defense
                obligations under written agreements with the Mutual Life Insurance
                Company of New York and/or Ares Realty Capital, Inc. concerning in
                any way
                whatsoever potential manufactured gas plant materials at the Southtowne
                Shopping Center;

            

    

    
      	 	
              (v)

            	
              any
                costs of any kind or nature whatsoever that Edison and CIPS incur
                at any
                time, if approved by Nicor, to perform indemnification and/or defense
                obligations under written agreements with consultants, or the current
                or
                former owners of all or part of the DuQuoin MGP Site, or land adjacent
                thereto, concerning in any way whatsoever manufactured gas plant
                material;

            

    

    

    
      	
              6.

            	
              The
                current Section 3.1(d) (v) of the Agreement, as added by Amendment
                No. 1,
                is renumbered as Section 3.1(d)
                (vi).

            

    

    

    
      	
              7.

            	
              Section
                3.1 of the Agreement, as amended by Amendment No. 1, is amended by:
                (1)
                deleting the period at the end of Section 3.1(d) and replacing it
                with a
                semi-colon and the word “and” and adding the following after Section
                3.1(d):

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              e.

            	
              all
                costs incurred for Kenilworth and Rockford (Avon and Cedar) since
                December
                1, 1997;

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              f.

            	
              all
                costs incurred for Murphysboro II (Big Muddy) since December 1, 1997,
                minus all amounts ultimately paid by
                Ameren/CIPS.

            

    

    

    
      	
              8.

            	
              Section
                6.8, as amended by Amendment No. 1, is amended to read, in pertinent
                part,
                as follows:

            

    

    

    ;
      provided, however, that such condition shall not apply to the Final Cost
      Allocation for the Shared Costs for the Four Sites added by Amendment No. 1
      and
      then Ten Sites added in this Amendment No.2. The allocation of Shared Costs
      for
      each of the Four Sites and the Ten Sites may range from 0% to 100% for either
      Utility.

    

    
      	
              9.

            	
              The
                beginning of the first line of Section 6.8 (a), as amended in Amendment
                No. 1, shall be amended to read as follows: “Except with respect to the
                Four and the Ten Sites.”

            

    

    

    
      	
              10.

            	
              The
                fourth line of Section 6.8(b), as amended in Amendment No. 1, shall
                be
                amended to read, in pertinent part, as follows: “except with respect to
                the Four Sites and the Ten Sites”. 

            

    

    

    
      	
              11.

            	
              Section
                8(e) is amended by deleting the current text and replacing it with:
                each
                Utility will cooperate, as provided in Attachment D, in the execution
                of
                any manifests needed involving the removal of
                waste;

            

    

    

    
      	
              12.

            	
              Section
                9 of the Agreement is amended by deleting the period at the end of
                Section
                9(c), replacing it with a semi-colon and then inserting the
                following:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              d)

            	
              neither
                Edison nor Nicor will assert laches against the other in any proceeding
                regarding possible remediation or investigation (including a cause
                of
                action regarding the Utilities’ respective potential liability for Shared
                Costs for a site or sites on the Site List or the allocation of Shared
                Costs between the Utilities for a site or sites on the Site List)
                arising
                from or relating to any of the sites on the Site List. This waiver
                shall
                apply only to sites on the Site List for which the Utilities have
                agreed
                to allocate Shared Costs within the meaning of Section 1.1 or Section
                3 of
                the Agreement.

            

    

    

    
      	
              13.

            	
              Section
                8(f) is amended by deleting the period and replacing it with a semi-colon
                and the following:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              g)

            	
              designate
                a Coordinator/Utility for each site or portion thereof purchased
                in
                accordance with Section 2.2(b), and it shall be the Coordinator/Utility’s
                responsibility to actively manage the Utilities’ ownership interests,
                subject to the direction of the Management Committee established
                under
                Attachment C.

            

    

    

    
      	
              14.

            	
              Section
                26 of the Agreement, as amended by Amendment No. 1, is amended by
                deleting
                it and replacing it with the
                following:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              26.

            	
              Certain
                costs.
                If
                the Utilities incur Shared Costs that they agree that they need to
                incur
                prior to the approval or disapproval of Amendment No. 1 or Amendment
                No. 2
                to the Interim Cooperative Agreement by the Illinois Commerce Commission
                (to the extent such approval is required by Section 7-102 of the
                Public
                Utilities Act), the Utilities shall act in accordance with Amendment
                No. 1
                or Amendment No. 2 to the Interim Cooperative Agreement with regard
                to
                such Shared Costs, including, but not limited to, the condition that
                each
                Utility will pay, on an interim basis, 50% of the costs that it agrees
                to
                incur for a site.

            

    

    

    
      	
              15.

            	
              The
                following Section 28 is added to the
                Agreement:

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              28.

            	
               Terms.
                Each defined term stated in a singular form shall include the plural
                form
                and each defined term stated in a plural form shall include the singular
                form. The term “consultant” includes “contractor” and the term
                “contractor” includes “consultant”.

            

    

    

    
      	
              16.

            	
              Section
                5.2 of Attachment C is amended by inserting the following after the
                second
                sentence:

            

    

    

    Notwithstanding
      any other provision of this Agreement, the Utilities recognize that it may
      be
      cost efficient and mutually beneficial for the Management Committee to approve
      the purchase of certain equipment that can be used at more than one MGP
      site.

    

    
      	
              17.

            	
              Section
                2.4 of Attachment C is amended by inserting the following sentence
                after
                the last sentence of the current Section
                2.4:

            

    

    

    All
      costs
      that either Utility recovers from a third party, such as pursuant to an
      indemnification claim against a consultant, in connection with any claims or
      suits brought against either Utility arising out of operations hereunder shall
      be distributed between the Utilities, on an interim and final basis, in the
      same
      manner that Shared Costs for that site are allocated between the Utilities
      on an
      interim and final basis, provided, however, that any recovery by either Utility
      from an insurance policy of the cost of remediation shall not be considered
      a
      claim or suit arising from operations for purposes of this Section
      2.4

    

    
      	
              18.

            	
              The
                effective date (“Effective Date”) of this Amendment shall be the date of
                the last party to execute this Amendment. This Amendment may be executed
                in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original,
                but
                all of which together shall constitute one and the same
                instrument.

            

    

    

    
      	
              19.

            	
              As
                hereinabove amended, the Agreement will remain in full force and
                effect.

            

    

    

    IN
      WITNESS WHEREOF, each Utility designated below enters into this Amendment.
      Each
      person signing this Amendment represents and warrants that he or she has been
      duly authorized to enter into this Amendment by the company or entity on whose
      behalf it is indicted that the person is signing.

    

    

    

    

    

    Dated:
      March
      6, 2000                 Party:
      Commonwealth
      Edison Company

    

    

    

    By:
      /s/
      MARY F. O’TOOLE____________

    (Signature)

    

     

    Mary
      F. O’Toole             Environmental
      Services Manager 

    (Name
      and
      Title)

    

    Dated:
      February
      23, 2000             Party:
Nicor
      Gas 

    

    By:
      ___/s/
      BRIAN C. ELLIOTT      2/23/00____________

    (Signature)

    

    

    Brian
      C. Elliott         Vice
      President______________

    (Name
      and
      Title)

    

    

    
      
        
        

      

      
        
        

        
          

        

      

      
        
        

      

    

    

    

    

    Attachment
      D

    

    Waste
      Manifest Agency Agreement and Procedures

    

    

    

    1. Pursuant
      to Section 8(e) of the Agreement, as amended by Amendment No. 2 to the Interim
      Agreement, each Utility has agreed to cooperate in the execution of any
      manifests needed involving the removal of waste from any MGP site listed in
      Attachment A.

    

    2. 
      Each
      Utility may elect to delegate authority on a site-by-site basis to a specific
      individual(s) employed by either Utility (“Utility Agent”) to execute any
      manifests needed involving the removal of waste from any MGP site subject to
      the
      Interim Agreement. The Utility Agent that executes any such manifests for a
      particular site shall be employed by the Coordinator/Utility for the site.
      Each
      Utility also may agree to delegate agency authority to execute waste manifests
      on a site-by-site basis to a specific individual(s) employed by the consultant
      (“Consultant Agent”) previously found to be mutually acceptable pursuant to
      Section 8(a) of the Interim Agreement for the particular site.

     

    3. This
      agency authority shall apply only to manufactured gas plant related wastes
      removed from a site subject to the Agreement at which site the Utilities have
      agreed to incur costs pursuant to Section 1.1 of the Agreement.

    

    4. To
      effectuate this agency authority for a particular MGP site, each Utility and,
      as
      appropriate, each approved contractor, shall execute a form substantially the
      same in form and substance as Exhibit 1 (“Delegation Form”). A Delegation Form,
      substantially the same in form and substance as Exhibit 1, shall be necessary
      for each MGP site. Each Delegation Form shall include the
      following:

     

    
      a.
        the
        MGP site covered by the agency authority.

    a.
      the
      dates upon which the agency authority commences and terminates;

    

    b. the
      specific names of the individual(s) who are authorized to execute manifests
      on

    

    behalf
      of
      the Utilities;

    

    
      	 	
              c.

            	
              specific
                directions that the agent execute the manifests as follows: “[insert name]
                on behalf of Commonwealth Edison Company and Nicor
                Gas”;

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              d.

            	
              specific
                directions that any third-party agent ship wastes only to facilities
                approved, in writing, by the Utilities and only by shipping companies
                and
                methods approved, in writing, by the Utilities;
                and

            

    

    

    
      	 	
              e.

            	
              signatures
                from personnel of both Utilities who are duly authorized to delegate
                agency authority to execute waste
                manifests.

            

    

    

    5. The
      Coordinator/Utility shall be responsible for complying with any and all
      exception, discrepancy, annual and other reporting obligations associated with
      shipments covered by this agency agreement regardless of whether the manifests
      for the site are executed by a Utility Agent or Consultant Agent. At the end
      of
      each calendar quarter of each year (i.e.,
      March
      31, June 30, September 30 and December 31), the Coordinator/Utility also shall
      forward copies all manifests executed by the designated disposal facility and
      returned to the Coordinator/Utility during that calendar quarter.Nicor Inc Exhibit 10.14

    Nicor
      Inc.

    Form
      10-Q

    Exhibit
      10.14

    AMENDMENT
      NO. 3 TO THE INTERIM COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

    

    On
      this
      25th
      day of
      April 2001, Commonwealth Edison Company and Northern Illinois Gas Company
      (individually or collectively “Utility(ies)”) hereby modify their Interim
      Cooperative Agreement dated October 28, 1993 including amendments thereto
      (“Agreement”), by entering into this Amendment No. 3 (“Amendment”) to the
      Agreement:

    

    WHEREAS,
      each of the Utilities is named as a defendant in litigation currently pending
      in
      the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, captioned Roberson
      v. Commonwealth Edison
      Company, et al.,
      Case No.
      00 L 4360, filed April 20, 1999, and Rutledge
      v. Commonwealth
      Edison Company, et al.,
      Case No.
      00 L 11290, filed October 2, 2000, (individually or collectively the
“Action(s)”), alleging personal injury and/or property damage caused by
      conditions existing or having existed at the former manufactured gas plant
      site
      bounded by Taylor Street, Lombard Street, Harvard Avenue, and Garfield Avenue
      in
      Oak Park, Illinois, now known as Barrie Park;

    

    WHEREAS,
      the Barrie Park site is on the Site List, which is Attachment A to the Agreement
      and is subject to the Agreement;

    

    WHEREAS,
      without admitting any liability, the Utilities have determined that it is in
      their mutual best interests to delay commencement of litigation of claims which
      either Utility may bring against the other Utility arising from the Actions,
      including but not limited to claims for contribution and indemnity (“Potential
      Utility Claims”), or to resolve such Potential Utility Claims;

    

    NOW
      THEREFORE, based on the covenants and mutual promises contained herein, it
      is
      hereby agreed by and between each Utility, pursuant to Section 16 of the
      Agreement, that the Agreement is modified as follows:

     

    1. Applicability.
      This
      Amendment applies to all Potential Utility Claims of either Utility which relate
      to the Actions and which have not been time barred prior to the effective date
      of this Amendment.

    

    2. Shared
      Costs

    

    2.1. The
      cost
      of any settlement and the cost of any judgment entered against either or both
      of
      the Utilities in the Actions will be Shared Costs under the Agreement and will
      be subject to all of the provisions of the Agreement, except as otherwise
      provided in this Amendment.

    

    2.2 Section
      2.2 of the Agreement is amended by adding the following to the end of Section
      2.2(d) prior to the semicolon: “or by Amendment No. 3.”

    

    3. Preservation
      of Potential Utility Claims

    

    3.1 Neither
      Utility shall commence litigation, whether by crossclaim or counterclaim in
      either Action or in a separate civil action, against the other Utility regarding
      Potential Utility Claims until and unless the Agreement is terminated pursuant
      to Section 14 of the Agreement.

    

    3.2 Any
      statute of limitation or repose is tolled for Potential Utility Claims that
      either Utility may have against the other Utility until the Agreement is
      terminated pursuant to Section 14 of the Agreement.

    

    3.3 Any
      finding of fact, conclusion of law, determination of liability, including any
      determination as to the relative fault or percent allocation of liability,
      and/or judgment in either Action shall not have any effect, whether by res
      judicata, collateral estoppel, or similar theories, in any proceeding between
      the Utilities, including but not limited to, any arbitration under the Agreement
      or in any litigation between the Utilities.

     

    4. Settlement.
      The
      Utilities agree to cooperate in any efforts to settle the Actions. The Utilities
      agree that they will not settle either Action without mutual agreement between
      the Utilities unless the Agreement is terminated pursuant to Section 14 of
      the
      Agreement.

    

    5. Reservation
      of Rights.
      This
      Amendment shall not constitute nor be interpreted, construed, or used as
      evidence of any admission of liability, law or fact, or a waiver of any right
      or
      defense.

    

    6. Authorization.
      Each of
      the signatories represents that he or she is fully authorized to enter into
      the
      terms and conditions of, and to execute this Amendment on his/her own behalf
      or
      on behalf of their respective client.

    

    7. Counterparts.
      This
      Amendment may be executed in counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an
      original but all of which together shall constitute one and the same
      instrument.

    

    8. Effective
      Date.
      This
      Amendment is effective as of April 20, 2001.

    

    

    

    Dated: _________________         Party: ____Northern
      Illinois Gas Company________

    

    By: _______Russ
      M. Strobel_______________________________________________

    (Signature)

    _____Russ
      M. Strobel, Senior V.P. & General Counsel_____________________

    (Name
      and
      Title)

    

    

    Dated: ___4-26-01_______         Party: ___Commonwealth
      Edison Company_______

    

    By: ________Rebecca
      J. Lauer_____________________________________________

    (Signature)

    

    ______Rebecca
      J. Lauer, Vice President and General Counsel_______________

    (Name
      and
      Title)

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