Opinion No.

The Honorable Jodie Mahony State Senator 106 West Main, Suite 406 El Dorado, Arkansas 71730

Dear Senator Mahony:

This official Attorney General opinion is issued in response to your recent question regarding the sale and transportation (wheeling) of power by a port authority. You have presented the following question:

May a county port authority sell or wheel power to existing industries that locate in the county prior to deregulation of the power industry in the State of Arkansas?

It is my opinion that the answer to this question will depend upon certain facts of which I have not been apprised.…