#### STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA, ex rel. UTILITIES COMMISSION; RUFUS L. EDMISTEN, ATTORNEY GENERAL; PUBLIC STAFF; HENRY J. TRUETT; TOWN OF BRYSON CITY; SWAIN COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; CHEROKEE, GRAHAM and JACKSON COUNTIES; THE TOWNS OF ANDREWS, DILLSBORO, ROBBINSVILLE, and SYLVA; and THE TRIBAL COUNCIL OF THE EASTERN BAND OF CHEROKEE INDIANS; MURIEL MANEY; and DEROL CRISP, Appellees v. NANTAHALA POWER AND LIGHT COMPANY; ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA; and TAPOCO, INC., Appellants

No. 227A83

(Filed 19 August 1986)

ORDER

Upon receipt and consideration of the mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States in this cause, issued _ July 1986, the following order was entered and is hereby certified to the North Carolina Utilities Commission:

> “This case is remanded to the North Carolina Utilities Commission for further proceedings consistent with this Court’s opinion filed herein on 3 July 1985 but not inconsistent with the opinion of the United States Supreme Court in Nantahala Power and Light Company, et al v. Thornburg, et al., No. 85-568, decided 17 June 1986, 476 U.S. ---, 90 L.Ed. 2d 943 (1986).

> The Bond filed herein on 9 February 1985 (and if the same is no longer in effect, a new bond in a like amount) to secure the payment of any refunds which might be ordered upon the final determination of this proceeding and any appeal therefrom shall continue in full force and effect until final determination of the case or until otherwise ordered by this Court.

*278By order of the Court in conference, this the 19th day of August 1986.

s/BlLLINGS, J.

For the Court”