MAR 16, 2010
Opinion as to whether the South Carolina Public Service Authority (“Santee Cooper”) has statutory authority to provide a proposed guarantee to the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Utilities Service (“RUS”) on behalf of Orangeburg County Biomass, LLC and whether proposed loan guarantee would violate Art. 10 § 11 of the South Carolina Constitution’s prohibition against pledging or loaning of the credit of a political subdivision of the State for the benefit of any individual, company, or corporation.
Requested by: The Honorable James H. Harrison, Member, House of Representatives
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