Washington State

Office of the Attorney General

Attorney General

Bob Ferguson

AGO 1966 NO. 71 >

The director of conservation is not authorized to refund to a "claimant" a portion of the annual "power" license fee for the calendar year 1965, which is required to be paid by the claimant under RCW 90.16.050, when the hydroelectric project to which the fee related is made inoperable during the calendar year 1965, by an "Act of God."