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INSIDE & ONLINE Reckoning with Va.’s racist symbols - 2 Signal of hope for Black America - 4 In memory of Adele C. Johnson (right)

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Va. NAACP calls for further investigation at VMI FROM WIRE REPORTS

A recent report found issues with racism, harassment and sexism at the Virginia Military Institute.

The Virginia NAACP says it supports further investigation of this climate at the publicly-funded institution.

According to a release, Black cadets make up 41 percent of dismissed cadets since 2011, but they make up just 23 percent of the student population.

“This report tells us what Black people and women have known for years: Racism and sexism have been allowed to thrive on the campus of VMI,” said Dr. Amy Tillerson-Brown, the Virginia NAACP's education chair. "The absence of policy to protect students and faculty from racism and sexism renders VMI complicit in upholding the racist and sexist culture documented in the investigation.”

The investigation also found that sexual assault is not being

adequately addressed by VMI, with the fear of retaliation or ostracism prevalent.

“No publicly-funded institution should be allowed to operate with such blatant disregard for civil and human rights,” said state NAACP Political Action Chair Gaylene Kanoyton. “The Virginia NAACP firmly believes that absent immediate changes, all funding from the Commonwealth to VMI should be revoked.”

“The Virginia NAACP demands

that state legislators return to Richmond this summer to implement the report’s recommendations and set a swift timetable for implementation,” said Robert Barnette, the Virginia NAACP president.

The release says that by ignoring or insufficiently addressing such issues, VMI nurtures a racist and sexist culture, which makes it difficult, if not impossible, for Blacks and women to thrive because of their race and/or gender.

One year after the protests rocked Richmond It’s been one year since the start of summer-long protests in Richmond, setting off clashes between protesters and police.

The Richmond Police Department is now facing several lawsuits over its response – Chief Gerald Smith recently spoke to Whittney Evans of VPM about the last year and what changes, he said, are underway at the department.

Chief Smith: We are working really diligently to develop what we are calling, it's the working title right now, the Richmond Community Academy, which would be on top of the police academy training that the state has for us.

And it’s learning about the identity of who we are as police, our history.

We’re going to be talking about our values, about the history of Richmond, who Richmond is, where it’s been. And we’re also talking about and bringing in the people of the community who we will be

Chief Gerald Smith addresses the media during a May 26 press conference at Richmond Police headquarters. (Whittney Evans/VPM serving. We still have a long way to go to get trust to the level that

we would all be comfortable with.

That’s where we are right now.

Whittney Evans: Mayor Levar Stoney, when he brought you on, he referred you as a change agent.

How have you worked to change the culture of the department?

Smith: Changing culture takes time, and we’re working on it. The Richmond Police Academy is one way that we’re changing the culture.

Before, the academy concentrated on the minimal standards across the state of Virginia. Those are great. They’re needed. We need to be proficient in all of those skills. These are our values. We value communication. We value partnership. We value communityspirited leaders who will come into the Richmond Police Department that make this area better.

Evans: If protests were to break out again next week, how would this department handle those protests differently than they handled protests a year ago?. A lot of people

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Va. universities reckon with Confederate symbols KATHARINE DeROSA CNS - In the wake of last summer’s protests and the pulling down of Confederate monuments around the state, universities within the commonwealth are dealing with the remnants of the Confederacy and of systemic racism that remain on their campuses today.

Virginia universities in the former heart of the Confederacy are reckoning with their past as students, faculty and staff call for the removal of Confederate symbols.

Richmond housed the capital of the Confederacy from 1861 to 1865.

Over 150 years later, remnants of the commonwealth’s Confederate history remain, including in academia.

At least 71 symbols of the Confederacy were removed from public spaces in Virginia last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. That includes multiple renamings of public schools. Only one symbol was removed prior to the murder of George Floyd.

Gov. Ralph Northam sent a letter to school board chairs in the commonwealth last July, urging public officials to change names and mascots that memorialized Confederate leaders.

“When our public schools are named after individuals who advanced slavery and systemic racism, and we allow those names to remain on school property, we tacitly endorse their values as our own,” Northam stated. “This is no longer acceptable.”

Several months later, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville removed the name of Confederate soldier Henry Malcolm Withers from a law school building.

The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg approved the renaming of Trinkle and Maury halls. Trinkle Hall was named for former Virginia Gov. Elbert Lee Trinkle who signed Jim Crow legislation, according to the college’s board. Maury Hall was named for Matthew Fontaine Maury, who resigned his post as a U.S. Navy commander to join the Confederacy

Demonstrators pulled down the Richmond Howitzers Monument at VCU last June. PHOTO: Andrew Ringle and helped it acquire ships.

The Virginia Military Institute in Lexington paid over $200,000 to remove a statue of Stonewall Jackson and relocate it to the Virginia Museum of the Civil War and New Market Battlefield State Historical Park.

Anthony Lawrence, an accounting major at the University of Richmond, is president of the Richmond College Student Government Association. He established a space for multicultural students in the student commons his freshman year and is currently working to remove Confederate symbols on campus.

The university has two campus buildings named for men associated with slavery and segregation.

Ryland Hall is named for slave owner Robert Ryland, the first president of Richmond College,

the University of Richmond’s predecessor. Ryland also served as a pastor to the first African Baptist church in Richmond, according to the university. He called slavery a “divine right” and routinely enslaved and loaned slaves to others during his time as president, according to university researchers.

Mitchell-Freeman Hall was first named for Douglas Southall Freeman, who graduated from the university and served on the board of trustees. The university updated the name of MitchellFreeman Hall on Feb. 24 to honor former Richmond Planet Editor John Mitchell Jr. who was Black.

Freeman was a journalist who advocated for segregation through “the Virginia Way” which suggests the elite have a duty to guide others, according to UR researchers.

“If they want to have the historical impact that they say they do, there can be more, much more, done than a name on a building to tell the historical story,” Lawrence said.

Lawrence suggested plaques that explain the buildings’ history to inform students without honoring Confederate leaders. The university also could require a course to teach about the history of the university and associated officials. There is currently no explanation for the building names on campus, Lawrence said.

“There’s nothing that’s really stopping them from changing the name except for their own, I guess, stubbornness,” Lawrence said.

The Black Lives Matter movement helped people examine the names

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(from page 1) get the policy. I’ve made changes were upset with the way RPD handled that.

Smith: To help facilitate their first amendment rights and to protect life and property.

Evans: Have you made a single policy change?

Smith: A few.

Evans: What are those specific policy changes?

Smith: You're gonna have to give me a chance to go back and pull some of those. We changed the chemical munitions policy. The way chemical munitions are used and when they are used.

Evans: What is that new policy?

Smith: You’re asking very specific questions that you did not prepare me to go get -- I that would have to

and how our CMT operates.

Leadership is on the street now.

Okay, when it comes down to protest.?

Evans: What does that mean to have leadership on the street?

Smith: I think we were kind of ahead of the game. Not to say that other organizations weren't. But that gives those who are in charge of making those decisions of when chemical munitions are used, what tactics what strategies to use, are right there on the street. They’re not in a command center somewhere.

And I think that’s what you saw, as the protests moved on.

Evans: I mean, the community has been calling for big sweeping changes. You know? These seem like very small changes.,

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and roles of campus buildings, Lawrence said.

“It can come to a head now because of the wonderful activism that we’ve seen in these past couple of years,” Lawrence said. “This past summer has really been an example of what can happen when we see change.”

Students formed The Black Student Coalition in March to advocate for the wellbeing of Black students.

“Now it’s impossible for the administration; it’s impossible for the board of trustees to silence us because we’re so strong, and because we have this coalition, and because we have each other,” Lawrence said.

Six percent of Richmond students identify as Black, according to the university. This makes Lawrence a minority student leader on campus.

“It’s exhausting but the work is rewarding in a way that I don’t think I ever would have known,” Lawrence said.

The board of visitors at Richmondbased Virginia Commonwealth University voted in September to remove Confederate symbols from campus. The decision came after more than three years of review.

More than a dozen dedicated spaces, memorials and plaques will be removed from both campuses, according to the

Anthony Lawrence university. The decision includes de-commemorating buildings with Confederate affiliation, such as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chapel.

Davis was the president of the Confederacy.

“The committee’s analysis revealed a more complete story of the meaning behind these memorials and commemorations that we can neither ignore nor celebrate and that impede our mission to serve all,” stated VCU President Michael Rao. Washington & Lee University in Lexington is named for former U.S. President George Washington and Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. Lee was president of the college

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Smith: What big, sweeping changes are you referring to?

Evans: Transparency Accountability.

Smith: Yes. And yes. We’re doing those things.

Evans: Help me understand how?

Smith: The FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) requests that come in, we are addressing those as quickly as we can. And they have increased tremendously when staffing has not. Transparency?

What was the other one that you said?

Evans: Accountability.

Smith: I have created the Office of Professional Accountability, and it is to help officers making sure that they’re accountable for their careers and that the organization is accountable for making sure that they are given what they need to

have the best career here.

Evans: What do you see are the changes that need to be made in policing today?

Smith: The reimagining committee came up with a list of things that we are working very diligently on.

Those need to be addressed. If we ignore those things, then people have a right to say, well, this is how we want to be policed. One of those things is officer wellness. This should be a concept that spread throughout the organization.

The sacrifices that they have made officers are essential employees.

They came to work every day last year COVID accounted for more deaths of officers than car wrecks and bullets. No one sees that.

for five years and the name was changed to Washington & Lee upon his death in 1870. Lee is buried on the campus.

Students walked out of the university in late March to support dropping Lee’s name, according to WVTF. The board of trustees began soliciting input in July 2020 on the university’s name and Confederate symbols. The board will issue a final decision on the name in June, according to a statement by Rector Mike McAlevey.

Some professors also favor changing W&L’s name, including Mohamed Kamara, an associate professor of French and Africana studies. Kamara has been teaching at W&L since 2001 and was a founding member of the Africana Studies Program.

Kamara was drawn to the university because of the physical environment and academic freedom the administration offered him.

“I am here because I love Washington & Lee, so that same love that I had for it when I first came here, I still have it,” Kamara said.

Kamara supports the student protests because of the effectiveness of protests in American history. He said the American Revolution was a protest of sorts where American colonists resorted to violence against Great Britain.

“Most of what has been achieved in terms of positive development

have been done through protests,” Kamara said.

Changing the name of the university would harm no one, Kamara said. It would save Black students the trauma of dealing with the institution of slavery when they come across the university’s name.

“It brings that memory that is not pleasant at all,” Kamara said.

Black people still feel the aftereffects of slavery even though it ended in the U.S. over 156 years ago, Kamara said.

“For those of us who are members of the Black race, we will back Washington for what he did for the university and Robert E. Lee for whatever he did for the university,” Kamara said. “But at the same time, we cannot ignore that component of the history that subjugated people like us.”

Washington and Lee were both slave owners, though Lee’s name is often the one brought up during renaming discussions, Kamara said.

“I believe that issue is going to come up,” Kamara said. “There was a time when nobody talked about removing Lee’s name.”

Kamara is fine with removing only Lee’s name, but he believes changing the whole name is an opportunity for the university to take an extra step.

“It may make sense, as a sign of goodwill, as a sign of good faith to be ahead of our times,” Kamara said.

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Signal of Hope for Black America CHARLENE CROWELL In recent years, many people of different races and ethnicities have fought against rollbacks to hard-won racial progress. From health disparities exposed in the COVID-19 pandemic, to voting rights, criminal justice, fair housing, and more, much of Black America has suffered in ways that harkened back to Jim Crow and its separate, but never equal status.

But since a new administration began this January, there have been a series of hopeful signs that regressive and harmful practices will be challenged in the name of justice. On May 25, the U.S. Senate confirmed Kristen Clarke as the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

Never before has a Black woman led this division that guides the federal government’s commitment to civil rights for all.

Nominated by President Joe Biden on Jan. 7, his remarks noted both its significance and opportunity.

“The Civil Rights Division represents the moral center of the Department of Justice. And the heart of that fundamental American ideal that we’re all created equal and all deserve to be treated equally,” said President Biden.

“I’m honored you accepted the call to return to make real the promise for all Americans.”

Soon thereafter, a tsunami of support for Clarke’s confirmation exposed national and diverse support for her service. The list of supporters included labor unions, environmental activists, law enforcement officials, along with legal colleagues and civil rights leaders.

Perhaps one of the earliest and most poignant expressions came from the son of the nation’s first Black Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John W. Marshall. Penned on The LEGACY NEWSPAPER Vol. 7 No. 24 Mailing Address P.O. Box 12474 Richmond, VA 23241 Office Address 105 1/2 E. Clay St. Richmond, VA 23219 Call: 804-644-1550 Online www.legacynewspaper.com

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behalf of his family, the February 9 letter to U.S. Senate leadership drew a key historic connection.

“Ms. Clarke is a pathbreaking lawyer, like my father, who built her career advancing civil rights and equal justice under the law, and breaking barriers through her leadership for people of color while making our nation better for everyone,” wrote Mr. Marshall.

His letter also shared an eye-opening example of Ms. Clarke’s groundbreaking work in civil rights. “Ms. Clarke has successfully utilized the law as a vehicle for advancing equality, as my father did. For example, she successfully represented Taylor Dumpson, who was targeted for a hate crime after her election as American University’s first female Black student body president.”

Similarly, the nation’s oldest and largest civil rights organization, the NAACP, advised Senate leadership before its scheduled confirmation hearing of its support for Clarke as well.

On April 12, Derrick Johnson, its President and CEO wrote, “The NAACP believes that Ms. Clarke is exceptionally suited to oversee the Civil Rights Division at a time when people of color have suffered devastating harm at the The LEGACY welcomes all signed letters and all respectful opinions. Letter writers and columnists opinions are their own and endorsements of their views by The LEGACY should be inferred. The LEGACY assumes no responsibility for unsolicited material.

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hands of law enforcement. She is the leader we need to ensure local police agencies are complying with civil rights laws and advancing public safety by maintaining positive relationships with the communities they serve. Ms. Clarke has prosecuted police misconduct cases and has worked to make the criminal justice system fairer for people of color.”

“As President of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Ms. Clarke has been an important partner working to curb predatory lending and in the fight for fair housing, including campaigns to stop the debt trap of payday lending and efforts to protect important fair housing/ lending rules, noted Nikitra Bailey, an EVP with the Center for Responsible Lending. “Ms. Clarke’s experience as a Justice Department lawyer and as executive director of a leading civil rights organization not only qualifies her, but makes her the best candidate for this urgently needed position.”

The vote taken mid afternoon on Tuesday was 51-48 along party lines.

Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was the only Republican to vote for the confirmation. Black women-led and civil rights organizations, including People for the American Way, fought vehemently for her confirmation alongside the April 21 confirmation of Vanita Gupta as associate attorney general. Gupta is Indian-American.

"These women are ready to make change happen—the change we voted for," wrote People for the American Way President Ben Jealous, in a column. "They represent the kind of inclusive multiracial and multiethnic society we are building together—and

the Biden-Harris administration’s commitment to building one of the most diverse governing teams in our nation’s history."

The vote by the Senate comes during an escalation of hate crimes, visible police killings of Black people and voting rights attacks by state legislatures across the nation.

"Kristen is very experienced in dealing with these issues and how to overcome them," said Dr. Mary Frances Berry, professor of American social thought, history and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. "With the legislation being passed in the states to implement more voter suppression, she will be on the cutting edge of finding ways to try and keep it from happening."

Clarke’s legal career takes on even more significance when one considers that this daughter of Jamaican immigrants grew up in Brooklyn New York’s public housing. Although financial resources were limited; the family’s teachings of discipline and hard work were not. From public schools, her collegiate studies took her to the prestigious Ivy League.

In 1997, she received her Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Three years later in 2000, Clarke completed her Juris Doctor at Columbia University.

Her first job as a new attorney was as a federal prosecutor with the Department of Justice, working on voting rights, hate crimes, and human trafficking cases. In 2006, she joined the NAACP Legal Defense Fund until

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(from page 4) then New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman appointed her as director of the state’s Civil Rights Bureau. In this state role, Clarke led enforcement actions spanning criminal justice, voting rights, fair lending. housing discrimination, disability rights, reproductive access and LGBTQ rights.

As recognition of her legal acumen grew, so did the number of honors she received: the 2010 Paul Robeson Distinguished Alumni Award from Columbia Law School; 2011 National Bar Association’s Top 40 Under 40; the 2012 Best Brief Award for the 2012 Supreme Court term from the National Association of Attorneys General; and the New York Law Journal’s 2015 Rising Stars.

Months later, the August 2016 edition of the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal featured a Q&A interview with Ms. Clarke. In part, she reflected on her childhood and how it influenced her career aspirations.

“I’ve experienced what it’s like to be underprivileged, and I’ve experienced very privileged settings as well. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to use the opportunities that I have been given to help those less fortunate. We live in a nation that’s divided along lines of race and class. I have a personal sense of what life is like on both sides of that divide, and I want to figure out how we close some of those gaps and level the playing field.”

At the April 14 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on her nomination, Clarke recalled her legal career journey and the principles that guided her work.

“I began my legal career traveling across the country to communities like Tensas Parish, Louisiana and Clarksdale, Mississippi,” testified Clarke. “I learned to be a lawyer’s lawyer – to focus on the rule of law and let the facts lead where they may.”

“When I left DOJ,” she continued, “I carried the words of the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall as my guide: ‘Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it.

Pass it on’. “I’ve tried to do just that at every step of my career.”

Clarke will now return to the Department of Justice at a time when the agency is recommitting its focus on serving the entire nation equitably. Since early this year, a series of actions reflect the agency’s renewed commitment to civil rights. Here are a few examples: This February and following an FBI investigation, a Michigan man was indicted on a charge of hate crimes after confronting Black teenagers with racial

slurs and weapons for their use of a public beach.

In March, two former Louisiana correctional officers were sentenced for their roles in a cover-up of a 2014 prisoner’s death at the state’s St. Bernard Parish that followed a failure to provide medical treatment while incarcerated.

In April DOJ and the City of West Monroe, Louisiana reached a consent agreement following a lawsuit alleging violation of the Voting Rights Act. Although nearly a third of the city was Black, the at-large election of city aldermen resulted in all white local officials.

With the consent decree, the method of aldermen selection will change to a combination of single district representatives and others elected at-large.

On May 7, DOJ issued a three-count indictment of four Minneapolis police officers on federal civil rights charges in the death of George Floyd. Additionally, convicted former officer Derek Chauvin faces an additional two-count indictment for his actions in 2017 against a 14year old teenager. The indictment charges

Chauvin with keeping his knee on the youth’s neck and upper back, as well as using a flashlight as a weapon.

Additionally, DOJ is currently investigating police practices in both Louisville, and in Minneapolis.

Readers may recall that Breonna Taylor was killed in her Louisville home during a late-night, no-knock warrant police entry.

“Our nation is a healthier place when we respect the rights of all communities,” advised Ms. Clarke in her confirmation hearing remarks. “In every role I’ve held, I have worked with and for people of all backgrounds…

I’ve listened deeply to all sides of debates, regardless of political affiliation. There is no substitute to listening and learning in this work, and I pledge to you that I will bring that to the role.”

Crowell is a senior fellow with the Center for Responsible Lending and a guest columnist or the Trice Edney News Wire. She can be reached at Charlene. crowell@responsiblelending.org.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC OF VIRGINIA ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY’S REQUEST TO REVISE ITS FUEL FACTOR CASE NO. PUR-2021-00097 •Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Dominion”) has filed its application pursuant to § 56-249.6 of the Code of Virginia seeking to increase its fuel factor from 1.7021 cents per kilowatt hour (“¢/kWh”) to 2.0448¢/kWh, effective for usage on and after July 1, 2021.

•According to Dominion, the total proposed fuel factor would increase the average weighted monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kWh of electricity by $3.43, or approximately 2.9%.

•The State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) will hold a public and evidentiary hearing in this case on June 23, 2021, at 10 a.m.

Further details on the hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling.

•Further information about this case is available on the SCC website at: scc.virginia.gov/case.

On May 13, 2021, Virginia Electric and Power Company (“Company” or “Dominion”) filed with the State Corporation Commission (“Commission”) its application (“Application”) pursuant to § 56-249.6 of the Code of Virginia seeking an increase in its fuel factor from 1.7021 cents per kilowatt hour (“¢/kWh”) to 2.0448¢/kWh, effective for usage on and after July 1, 2021.

The Company’s proposed fuel factor, reflected in Fuel Charge Rider A, consists of both current and prior period factors. The Company’s proposed current period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 1.9443¢/kWh is designed to recover the Company’s estimated Virginia jurisdictional fuel expenses, including purchased power expenses, of approximately $1.39 billion for the period July 1, 2021, through June 30, 2022. The Company’s proposed prior period factor for Fuel Charge Rider A of 0.1005¢/kWh is designed to collect approximately $71.6 million, which represents the net of two projected June 30, 2021 fuel balances.

In total, Dominion’s proposed fuel factor represents a 0.3427¢/kWh increase from the fuel factor rate presently in effect of 1.7021¢/kWh, which was approved in Case No. PUR 2020 00031. According to the Company, this proposal would result in an annual fuel revenue increase of approximately $244.1 million between July 1, 2021, and June 30, 2022. The total proposed fuel factor would increase the average weighted monthly bill of a residential customer using 1,000 kWh of electricity by $3.43, or approximately 2.9%.

The Commission entered an Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding that, among other things, scheduled a public hearing at 10 a.m. on June 23, 2021, to receive the testimony of public witnesses and the evidence of the Company, any respondents, and the Commission’s Staff. Further details on this hearing will be provided by subsequent Commission Order or Hearing Examiner’s Ruling.

The Commission has taken judicial notice of the ongoing public health emergency related to the spread of the coronavirus, or COVID-19, and the declarations of emergency issued at both the state and federal levels. In accordance therewith, all pleadings, briefs, or other documents required to be served in this matter shall be submitted electronically to the extent authorized by 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (“Rules of Practice”). Confidential and Extraordinarily Sensitive Information shall not be submitted electronically and should comply with 5 VAC 5-20-170, Confidential information, of the Rules of Practice. For the duration of the COVID-19 emergency, any person seeking to hand deliver and physically file or submit any pleading or other document shall contact the Clerk’s Office Document Control Center at (804) 371-9838 to arrange the delivery.

Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Commission has directed that service on parties and the Commission’s Staff in this matter shall be accomplished by electronic means. Please refer to the Commission’s Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding for further instructions concerning Confidential or Extraordinarily Sensitive Information.

An electronic copy of the public version of the Company’s Application may be obtained by submitting a written request to counsel for the Company, Elaine S. Ryan, Esquire, McGuireWoods LLP, Gateway Plaza, 800 East Canal Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219, or eryan@mcguirewoods.com.

On or before June 22, 2021, any interested person may file comments on the Application either electronically by following the instructions on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/casecomments/Submit-Public-Comments or by filing such comments with the Clerk of the State Corporation Commission, c/o Document Control Center, P.O. Box 2118, Richmond, Virginia 23218-2118. All comments shall refer to Case refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00097.

On or before June 14, 2021, any person or entity wishing to participate as a respondent in this proceeding may do so by filing a notice of participation with the Clerk of the Commission at: scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling or at the physical address set forth above. Such notice of participation shall include the email addresses of such parties or their counsel. A copy of the notice of participation as a respondent also must be sent to counsel for the Company. Pursuant to 5 VAC 5-20-80 B, Participation as a respondent, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice, any notice of participation shall set forth: (i) a precise statement of the interest of the respondent; (ii) a statement of the specific action sought to the extent then known; and (iii) the factual and legal basis for the action. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR-2021-00097. For additional information about participation as a respondent, any person or entity should obtain a copy of the Commission’s Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding.

On or before June 14, 2021, each respondent may file with the Clerk of the Commission, either electronically at scc.virginia.gov/clk/efiling or at the physical address set forth above, and serve on the Commission’s Staff, the Company, and all other respondents, any testimony and exhibits by which the respondent expects to establish its case, and each witness’s testimony shall include a summary not to exceed one page. In all filings, respondents shall comply with the Commission’s Rules of Practice, as modified by the Commission’s Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding, including, but not limited to: 5 VAC 5-20-140, Filing and service, and 5 VAC 5-20-240, Prepared testimony and exhibits. All filings shall refer to Case No. PUR 2021-00097.

Any documents filed in paper form with the Office of the Clerk of the Commission in this docket may use both sides of the paper. In all other respects, except as modified by the Commission’s Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding, all filings shall comply fully with the requirements of 5 VAC 5-20-150, Copies and format, of the Commission’s Rules of Practice.

The Commission’s Rules of Practice, the Company’s Application, the Commission’s Order Establishing 2021-2022 Fuel Factor Proceeding, and other documents filed in this case may be viewed on the Commission’s website: scc.virginia.gov/pages/Case Information.

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