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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001637880-24-000010"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001637880"
company_name: "Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-02-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T08:56:35.903579+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Tri-State files withdrawal agreement with NRPPD; exit May 1, 2024 amid Basin litigation

## Summary
- NRPPD to withdraw May 1, 2024; must pay Exit Fee by April 29, 2024 per FERC Rate Schedule No. 281.
- Tri-State conveys radial transmission facilities to NRPPD for $141,067 as part of Exit Fee.
- Basin Electric filed lawsuit seeking injunction to block early termination; Tri-State did not oppose limited injunction.
- Withdrawal contingent on no court order enjoining exit and NRPPD payment.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001637880-24-000010
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001637880
- company_name: Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-02-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 1.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637880/000163788024000010/0001637880-24-000010-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637880/000163788024000010/tris-20240227.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637880-24-000010
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637880-24-000010.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001637880-24-000010.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc. entered into Membership Withdrawal Agreement with Northwest Rural Public Power District.
  - Action: entry
  - Counterparty: Northwest Rural Public Power District
  source text: On February 27, 2 024, Tri-State filed with FERC an unexecuted version of a Membership Withdrawal Agreement (“Withdrawal Agreement”), between Tri-State and NRPPD, in FERC Docket No. ER24-1341-000.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637880/000163788024000010/0001637880-24-000010-index.htm
- Material Agreements
  Tri-State Generation & Transmission Association, Inc. terminated Wholesale Electric Service Contract with Northwest Rural Public Power District (effective 2024-05-01).
  - Action: termination
  - Counterparty: Northwest Rural Public Power District
  - Effective: 2024-05-01
  source text: certain specified contracts between Tri‐State and NRPPD, including the Wholesale Electric Service Contract, dated July 1, 2007, (“WESC”) will terminate
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1637880/000163788024000010/0001637880-24-000010-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.