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EXHIBIT 95

MINE SAFETY VIOLATIONS AND OTHER LEGAL MATTER DISCLOSURES

PURSUANT TO SECTION 1503(a) OF THE DODD-FRANK WALL STREET

REFORM AND CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT

PacifiCorp and its subsidiaries operate coal mines and coal processing facilities and Acme Brick and its affiliates operate clay, shale and limestone excavation facilities (collectively, the “mining facilities”) that are regulated by the Federal Mine Safety and Health Administration (“MSHA”) under the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (the “Mine Safety Act”). MSHA inspects mining facilities on a regular basis. The total number of reportable Mine Safety Act citations, orders, assessments and legal actions for the three-month period ended June 30, 2015 are summarized in the table below and are subject to contest and appeal. The severity and assessment of penalties may be reduced or, in some cases, dismissed through the contest and appeal process. Amounts are reported regardless of whether PacifiCorp or Acme has challenged or appealed the matter. Coal, clay and other reserves that are not yet mined and mines that are closed or idled are not included in the information below if no reportable events occurred at those locations during the three-month period ended June 30, 2015. PacifiCorp and Acme have not received any notice of a pattern, or notice of the potential to have a pattern, of violations of mandatory health or safety standards that are of such nature as could have significantly and substantially contributed to the cause and effect of coal or other mine health or safety hazards under Section 104(e) of the Mine Safety Act during the three-month period ended June 30, 2015.

 

     Mine Safety Act     Total
 Value of
 Proposed
 MSHA
 Assessments
 (in thousands)
    Total
 Number of
 Mining
 Related
 Fatalities
   Legal Actions

Mining Facilities

  

 

 Section 104
 Significant
 and
 Substantial
  Citations(1)

    Section
 104(b)
 Orders(2)
    Section
 104(d)
 Citations/
 Orders(3)
    Section
 110(b)(2)
 Violations(4)
    Section
 107(a)
 Imminent
 Danger
 Orders(5)
          Pending
 as of Last
 Day of
 Period(6)
    Instituted
 During
 Period
    Resolved
 During
 Period

 

Coal:

                             

Deer Creek(7)

                  $5       1       1

Bridger (surface)

   3                9       3       2

Bridger (underground)

   9                98       5    2    5

Cottonwood Preparatory Plant(8)

                             

Wyodak Coal Crushing Facility

                             

Clay, shale and limestone:

                             

Minnesota

                             

Malvern

                             

Wheeler

                             

Eureka

                             

Fort Smith

                             

Kanopolis

                             

Oklahoma City

                             

Tulsa

                             

Denver

                             

Bennett

                             

Denton

                             

Elgin

                             

McQueeney

                             

Garrison

                             

Sealy

                             

Texas Clay

                             

Leeds

                             

Montgomery

                             

Lueders

                             

Cordova

                             

 

(1)

Citations for alleged violations of mandatory health and safety standards that could significantly or substantially contribute to the cause and effect of a safety or health hazard under Section 104 of the Mine Safety Act.

(2)

For alleged failure to totally abate the subject matter of a Mine Safety Act Section 104(a) citation within the period specified in the citation.

(3)

For alleged unwarrantable failure (i.e., aggravated conduct constituting more than ordinary negligence) to comply with a mandatory health or safety standard.

(4)

For alleged flagrant violations (i.e., reckless or repeated failure to make reasonable efforts to eliminate a known violation of a mandatory health or safety standard that substantially and proximately caused, or reasonably could have been expected to cause, death or serious bodily injury).

(5)

For the existence of any condition or practice in a coal or other mine which could reasonably be expected to cause death or serious physical harm before such condition or practice can be abated.

(6)

Amounts include six contests of proposed penalties under Subpart C and three contests of citations or orders under Subpart B of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission’s procedural rules. The pending legal actions are not exclusive to citations, notices, orders and penalties assessed by MSHA during the reporting period.

(7)

The Deer Creek mine is currently idled and closure activities have begun.

(8)

The Cottonwood Preparatory Plant was sold in June 2015.