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SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES | 6 Months Ended
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Jul. 31, 2018
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SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES | NOTE 3 — SPECIAL PURPOSE ENTITIES Variable Interest Entity In January 2018, the Company was deemed to be the primary beneficiary of a VIE that is in the early stages of development efforts for the construction of a new natural gas-fired power plant. Consideration for the Company’s engineering and financial support includes the right to build the power plant pursuant to a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction services (“EPC”) contract that has been negotiated and announced. The account balances of the VIE are included in the condensed consolidated financial statements including the development costs incurred during the three and six-month periods ended July 31, 2018 in the amounts of $0.4 million and $0.7 million, respectively. Construction Joint Ventures GPS assigned its EPC contracts for two natural gas-fired power plants, which were substantially completed during the year ended January 31, 2017, to two separate joint ventures that were formed in order to perform the work for the applicable project and to spread the bonding risk of each project. The corresponding joint venture agreements, as amended, provide that GPS has the majority interest in any profits, losses, assets and liabilities resulting from the performance of the EPC contracts. GPS has no significant remaining commitments under these arrangements, and it expects to liquidate both joint ventures before the end of the current fiscal year. Due to the financial control of GPS, the accounts of the joint ventures have been included in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements since the commencement of activities under the two EPC contracts.

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