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Published on 10/7/2010 in the Prospect News Municipals Daily.

New Issue: California Department of Water Resources sells $1.76 billion power supply revenue bonds

By Sheri Kasprzak

New York, Oct. 7 - The California Department of Water Resources priced $1,763,215,000 in series 2010M power supply revenue bonds on Thursday, according to a pricing sheet. The department had originally planned to sell $1.9 billion of the bonds.

The bonds (Aa3/AA-/AA) were sold on a negotiated basis with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Stone & Youngberg and Wells Fargo Securities LLC as the senior managers. The co-managers were Barclays Capital Inc.; Cabrera Capital Markets LLC; Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; City National Securities Inc.; De La Rosa & Co.; Edward D. Jones & Co. LP; Fidelity Capital Markets; George K. Baum & Co.; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Great Pacific Securities; Grigsby & Associates Inc.; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; Jefferies & Co.; M.R. Beal & Co.; Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc.; Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.; Rice Financial Products Co.; SL Hare Capital Inc.; Southwest Securities Inc.; Toussaint Capital Partners LLC; William Blair & Co. Inc.; and Wulff, Hansen & Co.

The bonds are due 2011 to 2020 with coupons from 1% to 5%.

Proceeds will be used to redeem outstanding variable-rate bonds and refund the department's series 2002A fixed-rate bonds.

Issuer:California Department of Water Resources
Issue:Series 2010M power supply revenue bonds
Amount:$1,763,215,000
Type:Negotiated
Underwriters:Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Stone & Youngberg; and Wells Fargo Securities LLC (lead); Barclays Capital Inc.; Cabrera Capital Markets LLC; Citigroup Global Markets Inc.; City National Securities Inc.; De La Rosa & Co.; Edward D. Jones & Co. LP; Fidelity Capital Markets; George K. Baum & Co.; Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Great Pacific Securities; Grigsby & Associates Inc.; J.P. Morgan Securities LLC; Jefferies & Co.; M.R. Beal & Co.; Morgan Keegan & Co. Inc.; Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.; Rice Financial Products Co.; SL Hare Capital Inc.; Southwest Securities Inc.; Toussaint Capital Partners LLC; William Blair & Co. Inc.; and Wulff, Hansen & Co. (co-managers)
Ratings:Moody's: Aa3
Standard & Poor's: AA-
Fitch: AA
Pricing date:Oct. 7
Settlement date:Oct. 20
AmountMaturityTypeCouponPrice
$79.675 million2011Serial1%100.376
$7.885 million2012Serial2%101.775
$15.565 million2012Serial3%103.293
$7.16 million2012Serial4%104.811
$22.75 million2013Serial2%102.189
$50 million2013Serial3%104.677
$35.52 million2013Serial4%107.165
$310.48 million2013Serial5%109.653
$58.735 million2014Serial2%101.92
$30.1 million2014Serial4%108.781
$261.045 million2014Serial5%112.211
$16.45 million2015Serial2.25%102.3
$65.21 million2015Serial4%109.896
$185.415 million2015Serial5%114.236
$18.785 million2016Serial2.5%102.605
$110.19 million2016Serial4%110.421
$264.795 million2016Serial5%115.632
$6 million2017Serial2.5%101.327
$6 million2017Serial4%110.38
$12.74 million2017Serial5%116.416
$7 million2018Serial3%103.134
$21 million2018Serial4%109.949
$13.895 million2018Serial5%116.763
$14.32 million2019Serial3%101.888
$99.525 million2019Serial4%109.446
$39.195 million2019Serial5%117.004
$3.78 million2020Serial5%117.013

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